The Women Commissioner (WOCOM) of the University for Development Studies (UDS) in partnership with the Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA – Ghana) has held a summit to empower young girls.
The summit, which was under the theme “Female leadership: a means to social inclusion and development”, was aimed at helping to unearth the leadership talents in the female gender and making her realize the potentials she has and how she can make use of it to contribute to development in society.
Speakers at the event included Hajia Hafsat Sey Sumani of Norsaac, Fouzia Tua Alhassan of Plan – Ghana, Nureen Karim and Khadijah Abdul Samed, both officers from SWIDA – Ghana, as well as Hajia HAlima Sagito – Saeed, Executive Director of SWIDA – Ghana.
Among the topics for discussion are realities of female leadership, personal branding and gender.
The summit is one of the series of activities that SWIDA – Ghana hopes to carry out in partnership with UDS-WOCOM under the Women-LEAD: Women’s voice and leadership programme.
The “Women Empowerment for Leadership and Action for Development (Women-LEAD),” project is expected to promote gender equality at all levels in the Northern Region, which is being implemented in the Tamale Metropolitan and Sagnarigu Municipal areas.
The components for the Women-Lead project include economic empowerment of women, mobilization, sensitization and campaign to end gender-based and all forms of violence against women.
The project also seeks to work with both policy makers and implementers, to influence the implementation of gender – sensitive policies through engagements with duty bearers and stakeholders responsible for women’s issues, while at the same time working to increase women’s leadership at the corridors of power.
The three-year project is being funded by Global Affairs Canada and Plan – Ghana, under the auspices of Plan International’s “Women’s Voice and Leadership” project in Ghana.
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