From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
Stakeholders working in the agricultural sector on Thursday validated the Kaduna State Gender Policy in Agriculture to ensure the adoption of a gender sensitive and responsive approach to the agricultural sector.
The draft policy was developed by Legal Awareness for Nigeria Women (LANW) with support from AGRA, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, German Cooperation, KFW, The Rockefeller Foundation, UKAid and USAID.
Mrs Rebecca Sako-John, Member of the Board of Trustees, LANW, said at the opening of the validation meeting in Kaduna, that the domestication of the National Gender in Agriculture Policy will strengthen the State agricultural enabling policy environment.
She added that it would also support local governance and institutions to implement gender-sensitive policies and programming that would be responsive to the rights and needs of poor women farmers which was key to women empowerment.
“This is part of LANW effort in the past 20 years to promote social justice for marginalised and vulnerable groups through legal awareness, protection of fundamental rights and facilitation of participatory development.”
