Post COVID-19: Minister asks women to lead economic recovery of nations

The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, has asked African women to be at the heart of rebuilding countries’ economies, values and future, just as she identified women as born managers of resources.

The minister who spoke virtually at the ongoing African Women Conference (AWC) held in Kigali, Rwanda, with the theme “Women’s Participation In Building An Inclusive and Sustainable Post Covid-19 Economy”

According to the Minister, “In this conference, therefore, we must work to ensure women are at the forefront of leading the economic growth Africa desires, be part of policy making and implementation, and women should work towards the agenda of gender and social inclusion policy to protect women and female children in our various countries.

“The development and growth of a nation would only be achievable when women are equal partners in growth with men. The current reality is that in most African countries, women have relatively weak socioeconomic status and their successful empowerment must necessarily connect and feed their labour into the flow of economic development.

“Asides the negative impact on their economic status, women also have had to grapple with all forms of Gender-Based Violence for illustration, increased domestic abuse, sexual harassment, rape, amongst others, were reported during the lockdown.”

Aliyu also argued that given the population and innate potentials of women in contributing to the political and socio-economic development of any country, it is well in the interest of the state to map out workable strategies that would ensure the effective empowerment of women at all levels, noting that doing so, would enable the womenfolk to maximize their potentialities and further help consolidate the gains that contemporary democratic opening provides especially in the post-COVID-19 era.

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