The Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA – Ghana) has held a Female-empowering conference in Tamale, reflecting on young women becoming better versions of themselves.
The four-day conference which was under the theme “Growing into a Bigger and Better You”, aimed to achieve the following:
• Cultivate leadership skills among women
• Create a powerful network of female leaders
• Address challenges facing women in leadership roles
• Promote gender equality in decision-making processes
Young women from various educational institutions in the Northern Region were represented, with keen participation from especially female students who have been involved in various mentorship activities initiated by SWIDA-Ghana over the years.
Addressing the the participants in her welcome speech, the Executive Director for SWIDA-Ghana, Hajia Alima Sagito-Saeed said “The aim of the National Female Leadership and Networking Conference is in seeing our young women doing better than ourselves in the coming years “.
The young women who participated in the conference expressed excitement and the zeal to work harder and to engage more in their own ways, to ensure they become better than they have always been.
Various speakers with different backgrounds of training and capacities took turns to address the participants on the need to focus on education and paying attention to materials that support to build their capacities, instead of those that thwart the efforts of stakeholders having interest in their growth and well-being.
Speakers at the event include Mrs. Janet Sunkwa-Mills who was the guest speaker, Bushira Alhassan; NR Director for the Department of Gender, Dr. Naazia Ibrahim; Senior Lecturer (UDS), Alhaji Ibrahim Taimako; Director for BCI, and Abdul Hayi Moomen; Director of Public Affairs (UDS).
Other speakers include Dr. Esther Amoako; Director of Gender, Leadership and Development, Fidelia Duadzie; Resource person on mobilization, partnership and networking, and Faiza Seidu-Adam; Digital Literacy for Women.
After the event which built the capacity of the female participants, certificates of participation were awarded the young women as recognition for their increased commitment to seeing themselves become better women.
Funders of SWIDA-Ghana’s Women’s Voice and Leadership (WVL) project, under which the National Females Leadership and Networking Conference was organized, expressed the commitment to nurturing the next generation of females to become better leaders than exist today.
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