From Umar Dankano, Yola
Women in Adamawa state have attested the impact of the sensitization drive on the improvement of women rights and equality through conflict sensitive approaches by Oxfam, Giz, German cooperation co-founded by the European Union(EU).
The 18th months old programme codenamed; “Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (WORGE Project)” was organized for women groups in Michika and Guyuk local government areas where they were trained on gender based violence and their rights being denied due to cultural and religious considerations.
In their separate remarks at the occasion in Yola Monday women leaders from Michika and Guyuk local communities, Mrs Regina Elson and Mrs Rose Russia confirmed that the coming of the Oxfam and its partners to their communities with the project has changed the narrative by exposing women to their rights and obligations.
They confessed that before the advent of the organizations to their communities, cultural and religious considerations usually bar them in understanding some responsibilities which were wrongly reserved for men but now the awareness have uprooted those incumbrances.
“That each member state, excluding the state providing the Chairman, should have a Non-Executive Director, ensuring that every state and the FCT is meaningfully represented at both executive and non-executive levels.”
The group acknowledge the Senate for initiating legislative amendments to the Act to expand the Commission’s executive structure, “and urge that our observations be adequately captured in the amendments.”
