The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA – Gh), has been calling on stakeholders to support women, especially those in rural areas, with more capacity, to help them understand the causes and effects of climate change on their livelihoods and lives in general.
The call was made at a conference on Climate Change and Migration, aimed mainly towards the welfare of women and to make them more responsible, towards contributing to the mitigation and adaptation drive, to limit the effects of climate change.
The Executive Director for SWIDA – Gh, Hajia Alimah Sagito – Saeed, has been sharing the organization’s experience on climate change and migration, as well as how the woman is mostly affected.
According to Hajia Alima, climate change as has been agreed, is as a result of human activity, which has culminated from years of negligence of practices that affect nature and the protection the earth must have enjoyed.
She recounted how SWIDA – Gh’s works in various communities have revealed the negative impacts of climate change on the agricultural practices of women farmers.
The Executive Director said many women farmers have over the years been recording very low yields, due to the rainfall pattern of the north, which is lately affected negatively by the effects of climate change.
The conference also saw the various stakeholders present, share some ideas on how the effects of migration and climate change could be lessened on women and their livelihoods.
Stakeholders who were present at the conference include representatives of YARO and FES. There were representatives from MMDAs in the five regions of the north some CSO heads, Assembly members, as well as lecturers from the Nyankpala campus of the University for Development Studies.
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