the commonwealths guiding principles and values in the harare declaration reaffirmed in the perth commonwealth heads of governments meeting chogm emphasised improving gender equality and womens empowerment in the commonwealth and called on heads to demonstrate commitment by entrenching measures to advance womens political participation and leadership at all levels of decisionmaking the proposed target of no less than per cent of women in decisionmaking in the political public and private sectors by commonwealth secretariat is attracting increasing support from member countries actions to realise this global target especially the equitable representation of women in the political arena are constantly evolving