Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Sanatu Zambang
The Women Commissioner (WOCOM) for the University for development Studies (UDS) on Saturday, 20th February, 2021 at the multipurpose auditorium of the university. The summit was organised in partnership with Swida-Gh under them; Female leadership: a means to social inclusion and development and moderated by Fuseini Fadila and Issah Rahama.
Speakers at the event included Hajia Hafsat Sey Sumani of Norsaac, Tou Fouzia Alhassan of Plan International Ghana, Nureen Karim, Khadija Abdul Samed; gender and communications manager at Swida-Gh and Hajia Halima Saeed Sagito; Chief Executive Director of Swida-Gh. Among the topics for discussions included, realities of female leadership, personal branding, gender, etc.
The summit is one of the series of activities that Swida-Gh hopes to carry out in partnership with UDS-WOCOM under the Women-lead: Women’s voice and leadership programme. After this summit the next on the agender is the mentorship academy that is open to all female students in the school.
The “Women Empowerment for Leadership and Action for Development (Women-LEAD),” is expected to promote gender equality at all levels in the Northern region and it will be implemented in both Tamale Metro and Sagnarigu district.
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.
Also, the project seeks to work with policymakers 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 work to increase women’s leadership in all corridors of power.
The three-year project is being funded by Global Affairs Canada and Plan International Ghana, under the auspices of Plan International’s “Women’s Voice and Leadership” project in Ghana.
