UNDP partnership with states’ll advance women, girls’ programmes – Stakeholders
By Ebere Agozie
Stakeholders in the women and girl social development say that the United Nations Development programme (UNDP) partnership with state Commissioners of Women Affairs will advance their programmes in Nigeria.
The stakeholders said this at a dialogue organised by the UNDP to advance partnership with states for programming for women and girls in Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
UNDP Resident Representative in Nigeria, Ms Elsie Attafuah, said the dialogue would foster collaboration and exchange ideas on how to collectively enhance initiatives that promote the welfare, empowerment, and rights of women and girls in Nigeria.
Attafuah noted that though there were pockets of crisis across the country, there were still opportunities that abound that could be tapped into to change the lives of women and girls in the country.
She urged women to rise up to the challenges and organise themselves together to access UN supports.
”Women could drive the development agenda of the nation if they come together with commitments,” she said.
The Dean, Commissioners for Women Affairs and Social Development of the 36 states of federation led by Dr Ini Adiakpan urged development partners for assistance to improve the situation of women and girls in the country.
Adiakpan said the special intervention was necessary to curb the current growing number of street children and the suffering of women in the country.
“The street children must be urgently taken off the streets through proper packaged intervention to curb the risk of them turning into criminals and bandits’’.
She noted that 90 per cent of women were in agriculture and needed to be improved and taught on how to use high breed technology to solve the lack of food in Nigeria.
“Women could champion the current food security programme of the current administration if they are provided with enabling environment as women dominate the food and farming process in Nigeria.
“Women are resilient, we have the inner strength to absorb and survive even in the midst of difficulties,’’ she added.
Dr Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, FCTA, Mandate Secretary, Women Affairs Secretariat, said that Nigeria was ready to walk the talk with stakeholders in bringing out the best in the lives of vulnerable women and girls in Nigeria.
“We are ready in working with all stakeholders, including the UN in achieving their mandates towards the welfare and development of women and girls,’’ she added.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that state commissioners for women affairs and social development from across the states were all present (NAN)
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