To ensure empowerment and poverty alleviation projects have direct impact on grassroots women, girls and children, federal and state governments have agreed to implement a bottom to top approach for all target interventions. Minister of Women Affairs, Barrister Uju Kennedy-Ohaneye, made this known at a One-day Strategic Meeting with all States Commissioners of Women Affairs,…
She said that government is poised to finding more efficient ways of reaching out and bettering the lives of rural dwellers especially poor Nigerian women and children since the previous ways of doing things has not yielded desired impacts and results. She said all empowerment interventions meant for poor Nigerian women and children, including those coming from donor organisations, the United Nations, , the World Bank and other bodies, must be directed at the poor who are found at the grassroots to ensure it teaches them because the top bottom approach has failed to produce desired result hence, ye need for a bottom up approach.
“Along this line, the ministry of women affairs is a vital institution in the society, working tirelessly to ensure that gender equality becomes a reality.” She said “We want the federal ministry of women affairs to continue to interface with us so that we can synchronize our own practice with what the ministry does.
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sawo-Olu, has empowered 200 artisans who participated in six weeks of master craftsmen training organised by the Ministry of Housing. This training and mentorship began in 2016 to enhance the capacity of craftsmen and artisans in Lagos State to fill the gap of the dearth of well-trained artisans as…
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