Stakeholders: Seek Alliance With UNDP to Advance Women Programmes
During a dialogue meeting organised by the UNDP on thursday in Abuja, stakeholders seek to advance partnerships with states for programming of women and girls in Nigeria.
UNDP resident representative in Nigeria, Elsie Attafuah, said the dialogue would foster collaboration and exchange ideas on collectively enhancing initiatives that promote the welfare, empowerment, and rights of women and girls in Nigeria.
Ms Attafuah noted that though there were pockets of crisis across the country, there were still opportunities to be tapped into to change the lives of women and girls.
She urged women to rise up to the challenges and organise themselves together to access UN support.
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The dean of commissioners for women affairs and social development of the 36 states led by Ini Adiakpan urged development partners for assistance to improve the situation of women and girls in the country.
Ms 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,” noted Ms Adiakpan.
She noted that 90 per cent of women were in agriculture and needed to be improved and taught how to use high-breed technology to solve the lack of food in Nigeria.
The FCTA mandate secretary at the Women Affairs Secretariat, Mr Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, said Nigeria was ready to talk with stakeholders about bringing out the best in the lives of vulnerable women and girls in Nigeria.
