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