Family Planning Is Women Empowerment
Women are one of the important resources of any nation and society. Women have the right and capacity to work, earn and fend for themselves and their family according to the constitution of Nigeria. However, the reproductive gender roles of women have positioned them in a situation of having selected the option to choose in […]
Nigeria Gas Pledges Support for Host Communities, Empowers 40 Women
The Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Thursday pledged to support its host communities throughout the country. Top management of the company made the pledge during the presentation of starter packs to 40 women drawn from its host communities in Asset Management North (AMN), covering Kogi and […]
Uplifting 2,500 Women In Business
Founder of Flourish Africa, Folorunso Alakija, has said she is committing N1 billion fund to promote female-owned businesses in Africa. According to a statement, the firm is a female empowerment platform to help women achieve their full potential. Alakija disclosed that the initiative would focus on supporting the entrepreneurial activities of at least 2500 female-owned […]
Women Entrepreneurs Ask For Support To Grow In Business
TANZANIA SACCOS for Women Entrepreneurs (TASWE) has asked the government and other stakeholders to support their productive activities, access knowledge and expand the customer base for inclusive development. “We are asking stakeholders, mostly the government, to support our efforts in participating in various local and foreign trade exhibitions to acquire knowledge and create business networks […]
NACOFAG Equips Women Vegetable Gardeners On Agro-Marketing
The National Coordinating Organisation for Farmers Association – The Gambia (NACOFAG) in collaboration with International Trade Centre (ITC) recently completed a week-long training for 40 women and youth vegetable gardeners on agro-marketing. The training was conducted at Kanuma Community Centre, in the North Bank Region. NACOFAG is the Network of Farmers Associations with the aim […]
Dangote Foundation Disburses N3.9bn to Women, Youths in 11 States
Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has so far disbursed the sum of N3.924 billion to 392,490 women and youths across Kano, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Lagos, Niger, Nasarawa, Sokoto and Katsina states as part of its micro-grant programme. Additionally, the Foundation has concluded plans to extend the disbursement of the micro grant program to Ogun, […]
President Bio Launches Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy, Says Happy Women Make a Happy Nation
New Brookfields Hotel, Freetown, Thursday 3 December 2020 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched the country’s first Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy 2020, saying that Sierra Leone will be happy if women, who form a major of its population, are happy. “We are here this morning to set ourselves new […]
Family Planning Is women Empowerment {Part 2}
We have earlier discussed how making an informed decision on when to have children, child spacing and child Limit could be a form of empowerment for women. We also learnt the importance of planned parenting on improving quality of life for women and children. These are not possible without the use of contraceptives especially during […]
BRAC Liberia Empowers 750 Poor Rural Women In Bong, Margibi Counties
Garmia Flomo, 34, a single mother of four children living in Horton Farm, Canta Community in Margibi County worked as a sundry worker on a construction site to feed her children. But since the inception of the BRAC Liberia Ultra-Poor Program two years ago, she has been rearing pigs and involved in the buying and […]
Malawi’s New Female Cabinet Ministers Vow To Push For Jobs For Women
Malawi’s newly-elected President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed women to a record 12 of 31 cabinet positions, with the new female leaders vowing to use their roles to help other women. Women now hold 39% of the ministerial and deputy minister roles in the cabinet appointed by Chakwera, 65, who unseated Peter Mutharika in a re-run presidential election […]
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