Ecowas centre holds mainstreaming training

The ECOWAS Gender Development Centre (EGDC), in collaboration with the Gender Department of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has organised a national gender  training of trainers workshop for key gender stakeholders in both the public and private sectors.

The purpose of the training was to empower the participants to contribute meaningfully to the mainstreaming of gender in development policies, strategies and programmes for the attainment of gender equality and women’s empowerment within the context of the integration process of the ECOWAS Community.

Forty stakeholders from the gender ministry, government agencies, municipal and district assemblies, the media, civil society organisations, as well as traditional leaders, participated in the three-day training programme.

The resource person, Madam Adelaide Sosseh, a gender consultant, introduced the trainees to the Gender Training Tool Kit developed by the ECOWAS Gender Centre in its effort to provide the community with a tool for building capacity on gender and development in a comprehensive and sustained manner.

Scale gender mainstreaming

Closing the training programme, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection,  Nana Oye Lithur, thanked the EGCD for its support to Ghana.

She said the training was very critical for the country as there was the need to scale gender mainstreaming to promote gender equality at all levels of governance.

Nana Oye referred to the many international instruments on gender equality that the country had committed to and said it behoved the state actors and civil society organisations engaged in the promotion of gender equality to measure the country’s performance and hold government accountable on what it was doing to mainstream gender into the development agenda.

The Director of the EGCD, Madam Aminatta Dibba, said in spite of the significant progress made in placing gender high on the development agenda, over the last three decades, there was still a lot to be done in terms of bridging the gender gaps and ensuring the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women,

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“This calls for a concerted and sustained effort to consolidate the progress that has been made so far and to map out innovative strategies to address emerging challenges in the fight for gender equality and women’s empowerment,” she stated.

Madam Dibba emphasised that knowledge enhancement and skills development  were two of the most sustainable responses to the challenges facing the fight of gender equality and equity in the ECOWAS region, hence the training was one of the ECOWAS Gender Centre’s mechanisms for addressing these challenges in a comprehensive manner.

Support to Ghana

She said the centre had worked with Ghana to support 68 women to have their obstetric fistula repaired.

In addition, 10 Ghanaian girls are currently benefiting from the EGDC’s  specialised technical and professional training through the provision of Scholarship of Excellence.

Furthermore, Madam Dibba said, the centre in 2012 provided US$ 10,000 each to three rural-based women’s groups engaged in agriculture and also supported 32 women to undergo training in various business management and entrepreneurial skills.