An advocacy stakeholders’ meeting to accelerate gender mainstreaming especially for Women’s Health in Nigeria will hold on March 30th, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Convened as an off-shoot of the #ICommit Partnership for Goals Policy and Behavioural Change Campaign flagged-off in May 2022 by the Honourable Minister for Women Affairs, Dame Pauline K. Tallen, the Voices for Women’s Health hybrid Stakeholder Meeting will expedite concerted and targeted action towards advancing the health and rights of women in Nigeria.
Endorsed by The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), Women in Global Health (WGH) Nigeria, the International Society for Media in Public Health (ISMPH), the Centre for Communication and Social Impact (CCSI), the Medical Women International Association and a host of others, the Voices for Women’s Health #ICommit campaign aims at enabling transformational change and advancing the agency of women and girls in Nigeria.
As Nigeria undergoes a leadership transition period, with access to quality and affordable healthcare as a fundamental index of women’s empowerment and its implication for livelihood sustainability, the conveners believe it is time to mobilize multi-sectoral effort to shape new priorities that will enhance quality, supportive and effective decision-making for women’s health.
The campaign also seeks amplify advocacy efforts on the critical state of women’s health in Nigeria as commemorations for Women’s Month reach its peak, while sustaining the momentum on the need to achieve gender mainstreaming across sectors.
According to the organizers, the Country Director of Pathfinder International, Dr. Amina Aminu Dorayi and the Founder, She Forum Africa, Ms. Inimfon Etuk, it is important to galvanize effort if Nigeria is to meet the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and achieve gender equality ahead of the 2030 SDG target set by the United Nations.
The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), Women in Global Health (WGH) Nigeria, the International Society for Media in Public Health (ISMPH), the Centre for Communication and Social Impact (CCSI), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), the Medical Women International Association and a host of others, endorsing the Voices for Women’s Health campaign describe it as timely and key to enabling transformational change and advancing the agency of women and girls in Nigeria.
The March 30 , 2023 stakeholder meeting will bring together government officials, leaders of thought and health-sector professionals, civil society organizations and the media to review the state of women’s health in Nigeria, appraise progress, identify evidence-based gaps, rally accelerated multi-sectoral support and solutions for evolving a workable framework that will inspire, sensitize, enable and strengthen policy action in furtherance of the Gender Mainstreaming agenda in Nigeria.
