WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN NIGERIA: THE WAY FORWARD

                    WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:

                           THE WAY FORWARD

                                         BY

                      OKONGO TAMBU EBUTA

OUR MISSION:

Our mission is to be a vessel in the awakening of women in the drive towards the attainment of their political, social and economic emancipation for the determination of their rights and obligations.

 OBJECTIVE OF TRAINING:

·        To create the awareness amongst women of their rights.

·        To drive home the awareness that a well empowered women mean a healthy population of men and women.

·        To highlight the strategies for gender equality and promote an action plan.

·        Make the recruitment of women a deliberate priority for constituency expansion.

·        To highlight the world of opportunities that exists for women.

·        Empower women as the key change agents.

·        Develop women’s leadership skills in every field.

·        Guide women on defining their visions and missions in life and how to plan towards achieving them.

·        Mobilize women to build self-reliance and alleviate poverty at grassroots.

·        Build the capacity of females in all spheres of endeavors.

·         Expose successful experiences in other countries supporting women’s participation in politics and decision-making

·        Promote women’s empowerment through provision of macro-credit and entrepreneurial skills.

                                                   

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:                        

 Across the Nigerian Society, as in other parts of the world, women face some of the greatest challenges. They bear a disproportionate burden of the country’s poverty. Their ability to have a decent life is hampered by deep- rooted societal norms and practices. In conflict situations, women are more vulnerable to exploitation and such violent acts as rape, torture, sexual slavery, and enforced prostitution and mutilation. Women are disproportionately represented in the political leadership of Nigeria.

However, although Nigerian women have made gains in certain fields of human endeavor,  problems still persist in many areas and women’s share in governmental decision making process remains a far cry.

Thus, the need for an exclusive drive towards women empowerment to correct the age-long gender imbalance across societies.

EMPOWERMENT has been defined as the delegation of legal power to authorize, or delegate ability or faculty to control, or influence expected happenings which include political, economic and social decisions.

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT is therefore the legal ability of women to delegate, control, authorize or influence the happenings that concern them.

Our training is therefore focused on creating the awareness and drawing a road-map to awaken the women in this call for women empowerment and emancipation from their current drift to the doldrums.

This will be achieved through a purposefully tailored training programme outline, meant to create awareness amongst women on how to achieve their desired empowerment.

The course period is limitless because apart from this class work, it is process driven in terms of continuity in mentorship, implementation, and adaptation.

However, for the purpose of this setting, we shall compress the seminar to meet the needs of the target audience and create the necessary awareness to engender serious drives amongst women.

A) ACCULTURIZATION

We will deal with the following:

·        The present imbalance

·        Legal rights

·        Economic policies

·        Political participation

·        Socio-cultural norms and values

·        Working-class women

·        Girl-child education

·        Case studies

B)  THE WAY FORWARD

·        Human rights and women

·        Women and dowry

·        Social empowerment

·        Women and education

·        Entrepreneurship in women

·        Women in difficult circumstances

·        Women in Police

·        Women and technology

·        The girl-child

·        Rural women

·        Women in leadership

·        Women in politics.

·        Resolutions

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PRE & POST-RETIREMENT TRAINING PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA

      PRE & POST-RETIREMENT TRAINING    

                           PROGRAMME

                                                       BY

                                     OKONGO TAMBU EBUTA

OUR MISSION:

To attain a leading role in knowledge dissemination, utilized to promote industrial harmony amongst employees and employers through human capital empowerment.

 OBJECTIVE OF TRAINING:

A)   TO EMPLOYEES:

Ø Help achieve a happy, healthy, productive and well-balanced retirement.

Ø Introduce clients to the new and stress-free lifestyle that retirement can produce.

Ø Evaporate the fears and financial worries that can be associated with retirement.

Ø Advise clients on the world of opportunities and enjoyment that can exist during retirement.

Ø Equip clients with optional plans that are in place for retirement in addition to legal matters such as wills among others.

Ø Guide clients define their visions and missions in life, and how to plan towards achieving them.

Ø Develop clients’ career and financial paths/plans towards achieving their visions and missions.

Ø Prepare rather than do everything at the last minute or lose track.

Ø At the end of the workshop, retirees should be able to see retirement as a blessing and not an end to a happy life, face the reality and inevitability of the change with optimism setup and successfully manage their business and live longer through better management of their health and relationship during retirement.

 TO THE EMPLOYERS:

Ø When employees are certain about their future in retirement and plan towards same, there would be reduced corruption in society.

Ø In training them, they are assisted to achieve personal success, thus improving on their self confidence.

Ø Training employees to better themselves is a goodwill and motivational approach to improving on their commitment to the organization and leaving with a positive sense of the belonging, which is really important to employees.

Ø In all, note that we are not financial advisers, however if required we can give clients names of local advisers.

                                                    RETIREMENT:                        

                                                   In life we are in transit either at our workplaces, or business engagements or even life itself. You must pass by, from one activity to another even unto death.

                                                   In this case, it is passing on from active service unto a less active one, which is retirement.

Retirement is therefore an exit into less active undertakings, which does not necessarily mean a fore-closure of your pursuits.

                                                   The new Webster’s dictionary defines retirement “as the giving up of active participation in a business or other occupation, especially because of advance age”.

It is when you stop living at work and start working at living.

                                                    However, most retirees, especially in Africa, dread retirement which is supposed to be a joyful expectation because it is foreseeable, except in unforeseen circumstances.

                                                    Our training is therefore focused on reversing this attitude of doubtful expectation to glorious/celebrated expectations.

This would be achieved through designed training  programme outlines meant to teach our clients how to plan for their retirements and retire joyfully

                                                   The course length is dependent on the needs of the clients. However, we will abridge it to meet the target time of organisers ,while ensuring that you achieve your required awareness with the seminar scope.

 A) Pre-retirement planning awareness

We will deal with concerns such as:

- where you are today;

Ø Assess your resources

- where you want to go;

Ø Define what retirement means to you, your vision and cost implications, social security etc

- how  do you get there;

Ø Sound financial planning including estate, and taxes

- what decisions do you face;

Ø Savings, investment, pensions, rollovers among others

- resources and contacts among others which will encompass such salient issues as your mission and vision, psychological implications of retirement/attitudes, home movement, medical, time usage, change  of jobs(paid ,or part time, or  voluntary, or running your own business),family pressures, hobbies and interest,  budget and development plans, and terminal benefits expectations and utilization

B) Retirement option plans.

 Outlay of retirement options and step by step considerations for retirement.

                                                     C) Executing the retirement plan.

Study groups to consider proposals for retirement

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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

BY 

OKONGO TAMBU EBUTA

Our services are designed to assist organizations and communities wishing to provide only the best awareness and support for the empowerment of youths and formulation of a road-map for leaders in their pursuit for stimulating this empowerment.

On the other hand , we are  also involved in the empowerment of champions , where the programme is designed to tutor the community, corporate and public sector executives on how to formulate/design approaches to achieve these empowerments.

OUR MISSION:

To empower the youths to take a leading roles in their local communities  through initiatives that will sustainably improve the livelihood of the less privileged in urban, rural and grassroot communities.

OBJECTIVES OF SEMINAR:

·        Deliberate on challenges that youths face in general.

·        Educate youths on their rights as contained in the various charters.

·        To ensure youths empowerment and sustainable development.

·        To enlighten youths on health challenges especially HIV/AIDS/MALARIA.

·        To empower youths to actively participate In the entrenchment and sustainability of human rights and good governance.

·        To empower youths to strengthen/build strategic alliances and partnerships among youth networks within and outside Africa.

·        To showcase the significant innovative advancement of African youths,  including the diaspora in their research and scientific activities and achievements and its contribution towards sustainable development.

·        To highlight their roles in the national developmental agendas.

                                          

YOUTHS EMPOWERMENT:                        

 The call for investment in young people now is more than clear. About 62% of Africa’s overall population  fall below the age of 35 and more than 35% are between 15 and 35 years old.

More than half of the youth survive on less than USS 2 a day, six thousand(6000) young people are affected with HIV/AID everyday all over the world, most of them are girls in sub-sahara  Africa.

The African youth is a special resource that requires special attention not only because of the demographic bonus but also its inert energy that it possesses.

They are formidable creative resource that can be harnessed for african socio-economic development.

Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability,  authority, and agency to make decisions and implement changes in their own lives, and the lives of other people, including youths and adults.

Youth empowerment is often addressed as a gateway to intergenerational equity, civic engagements and democracy building. Many local, state, provincial, regional ,national and international Government agencies and non-profit community-based organizations provide programs centered on youth empowerment.

The course period is limitless because apart from class work, it is process driven in terms of continuity in mentorship, implementation, and adaptation.

However, for the purpose of this setting, we shall compress the seminar to emphasis on what is most desired and guide participants on the way forward thus:

A) YOUTHS EMPOWERMENT AND EXPECTED VISION

We will deal with the following:

·                    Define youth empowerment

·                    Youths today in nation building

·                    Youth empowerment  and social –political stability

·                    Youth empowerment and peace and security matters, conflicts and post-                                              

            Conflict involvement and responsibilities.

·                    Youth  and issues concerning democracy, governance and climate

            Change

·                    Youth empowerment and socio-economic stability

·                    Education, science and technology, relevant training and employment

·                    Skills and life skills development

·                    Livelihoods and entrepreneurship and poverty reduction

·                    Youth empowerment and social and industrial welfare

·                    Youth rights, obligations ,responsibilities and legal issues

·                    Youths facing health challenges, HIV/AIDS

·                    Youths empowerment and sustainable development

·                    Youths participation-policies decisions and practices

·                    Opportunities and challenges.

B)  TOWARDS ATTAINING THEIR OBJECTIVES.

·                    Legislation on youths rights

·                    Socio-cultural mobilization

·                    Political Institutional creations

·                    Economic self-reliance

·                    Educational upliftment

·                    Healthcare awareness and delivery

·                    Legal framework for youths protection

C) CASE STUDIES.

·                     Case studies

·                    Resolutions

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