The year 2022 may be a year of drastic change for the Nigerian woman, as the National Council for Women Development (NCWD) would face the National Assembly, for the approval of N1.5 billion, from which it planned to appropriate the sum of N1.227 billion, for capital expenditure.
From the Tribune Online checks, on the four-paged document of its proposal for spendings in the 2022 fiscal year, this paper, can state that the sum of N130 million, was dedicated to fighting all forms of discrimination against the Nigerian woman.
According to the budget document, the centre would spend the sum of N40 million to “Identify and collate gender gaps across different sectors of the Nigerian economy.”
This would be executed under the Economic Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP) 2177281, captured on page 1,223 of the 2,168, appropriation bill details for 2022.
According to the budget, N130 million would be spent on three areas covering: legal literacy, traditional practices and implementation of international conventions.
It reads: “ERGP22176666 Legal literacy programmes for traditional gatekeepers and other stakeholders for the elimination of gender discriminatory practices in Nigeria, N30,000,000.
“ERGP 30112591 Design and completion of discriminatory laws, policies and practices affecting women and children in Nigeria ongoing N50,000,000 million.
“ERGP 30112818 design and implementation of international, national conventions, treaties and protocols on the advancement of women to which Nigeria is a signatory” an “ongoing project for N50,000,000,” the Proposal stated.
Further inquiry on the document by Tribune Online showed the vote for boosting the skill set of the Nigerian woman in information communications technology (ICT) with a bias for mechatronics.
Twenty million Naira (N20,000 ,000) was voted for this purpose. Another N20,000,000 was allotted in the budget for skill acquisition in the same sector for persons living with disability-focused on the blind and the deaf Nigerian woman and children.
Both provisions are captured on the budget code ERGP29151130 and ERGP2915114 respectively.
Director-General of the National Center for Women Development Dr Asabe Vilita was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in the second quarter of 2021.
Tribune Online gathered that as part of its Economic Recovery Growth Plan, ERGP the centre would design and populate the gender-based violence dashboard with N40,000,000 in the 2022 fiscal year.
Although the centre is led by an experienced legislator, Hon. Asabe Vilita, as the centre prepared its appearance to the national assembly legislators, for her budget defence, it would explain the allotment of N150,000,000, it has proposed, for its: “ERGP8112574 Renovation of National Centre for Women Development” which is tagged as an ongoing project.
Hon. Vilita and her team would face both members of the Senate Committee on Women Affairs, presently Chaired by Sen. Betty Apiafi and the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development, under the Chairmanship of Hon. Wunmi Onanuga.
The Director-General who would be at home with her former colleagues would also defend the proposed N15,000,000 it has budgeted for monitoring and evaluation of NCWD projects, other intervention projects and budget implementation which it said was ongoing.
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