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Desmond Mgboh Kano
The Women Economic Empowerment. (WEE) policy will significantly dislodge the barriers to economic growth and help address poverty among women in Kano State and the region in general.
The Commissioner for Women Affairs, Kano State, Asha Lawal Saji stated this at a stakeholders engagement workshop on the Domestication of the National Women Economic Empowerment policy in the state.
The workshop was organised by the Department of Research Project Centre, a non – governmental organisation.
According to her, many women in Kano state have continued to face significant barriers to economic opportunities, a condition she stated has continued to perpetuate their cycle of poverty and vunerabliitiy.
She stated that WEE aims to address gender equality, challenge discriminatory norms and practices as well as create an enabling environment for women to thrive economically even as she expressed optimism that the program will lift women economically and increase their prosperity.
She disclosed that Kano state government has commenced the distribution of N50,000 each to 5200 women beneficiaries across the state, which she said is equivalent to N3.1 billion dedicated to women annually.
She added that domestic goats were recently distributed to women in all the 484 wards in the state while others were trained on fish farming and other forms of aquaculture by the state government.in a bid to empower women financially.
Speaking on the domestication of the WEE policy in the state, a Senior Programme Associate. DRPC, Umar Ahmed explained that the engagement workshop was designed to align the national WEE policy to the values, norms and culture of the people of the state.
He disclosed that different groups representing different segnents of the Kano society had been invited to brainstorm and come up with suggestions on how best the policy can be domesticated in the state.
Papers were presented by experts in the field including a paper on policy Identification, packaging abd concept development by Bala Kofar Mata, a Professor at the Bayero University, Kano.
