The Akin Fadeyi Foundation is set to inaugurate a competition titled, “What Women Can Do” slated to be held on July 19 and as well deploy its ‘FlagIt’ application among youths, an anti-corruption initiative of the foundation for election observation, monitoring, and reporting.
AFF, a non-profit organisation, is determined to break the barrier that undermines the leadership and political participation of women in society, as the competition will unearth the potential of the female gender.
In a statement signed by AFF’s Executive Director, Akin Fadeyi, and made available to The PUNCH on Tuesday, he revealed that the foundation, in conjunction with its sponsors, the MacArthur Foundation, a private foreign foundation, is unveiling the programme as “an affirmation of the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion programme, which will speak to how leadership would be a lot more impactful when women are empowered to act as equal stakeholders in national development.”
The statement partly read, “The ultimate objective of this programme will be to encourage women to endure in their leadership ambitions despite the present turns in Nigerian politics; to re-affirm their capabilities as equally endowed social actors who are not intellectually subordinate in any way, and to stimulate public conversation on the need for gender parity in access to power.”
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