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Serving as the voice of women in the Marshall Islands, the primary goal of WUTMI is to support and strengthen Marshallese women, and in so doing, to strengthen Marshallese families.  WUTMI seeks to encourage and ensure activities that preserve and strengthen the values of traditional Marshallese culture as well as addressing the realities of modern life in the islands.  The current area of focus is to prepare younger generation of women to take their role in society as healthy mothers, educators, health professionals, leaders and businesswomen.  WUTMI seeks resources for empowerment, life skills development, for research into areas such as child abuse, and for training in areas of the greatest need.

 In addressing its mission, WUTMI has also the need to maintain a good reputation and thus to build its credibility as an effective and an accountable NGO.  It addresses gender and development issues and works at various levels–from the grassroots to national and international levels.  It therefore has to have the ability and the flexibility to be effective and accountable at such levels.  The charge is difficult and adventurous, and it is important that WUTMI develops as a learning organization – to be effective, efficient, and expandable.

 Based on recommendations made previous to 2002, a list of tasks were suggested as details to the WUTMI charge:

  • Unite Marshallese women nationally in common goals and through their strength in numbers and unity of action influence urban and rural changes within the Republic.

  • Provide a forum which will give women a strong voice in local and national issues.

  • Help cultivate women’s roles in family enrichment, health, nutrition, education, business and self employment.

  • Create a power group which will identify and prioritize regional needs an concentrate on meeting those needs through planned strategies to be carried out by all participants.

  • Establish lines with other national women’s organizations in the Pacific as well as Third World countries throughout the world in building resources and exchanges of ideas on regular basis.

  • Encourage traditional Marshallese values, integrating them with all social and economic development.

  • Promote women’s awareness of self worth as they work for personal and national goals of self reliance.

  • Other related objectives as made from time to time.

 Around the same time, additional tasks were added, and these included the following:

  • Identify training needs required to implement this (National Women’s Policy) at national and local levels.

  • Collaborate with the Women’s Affairs Division in providing skill training at different levels of the WUTMI organizational structure.

  • Identify women’s issues and concerns which could be integrated into national programs.

  • Monitor the impact of the Women’s Affairs programs and activities and advise the Women’s Affairs Division on needed improvement.

  • Seek funding and other resources needed to strengthen the WUTMI structure at national to local levels.

  • Publicize and make the women aware of issues and decisions affecting them.

  • Maintain the women’s network in collaboration with Women’s Affairs Division.