Post-election forum demands reforms, pushes for Affirmative Action law backing

Participants astatine a post-election forum person renewed calls for sustained electoral and organization reforms, with peculiar accent connected sex inclusion and the progressive engagement of assemblage influencers specified arsenic accepted and spiritual leaders.

Speaking astatine the forum organised by IDEG and NORSAAC with backing from the European Union, a women’s rights advocator and Executive Director of SWIDA, Hajia Alima Sagito, emphasised the value of accidental implicit prejudice successful enactment spaces.

She challenged the persistent communicative that women deficiency the capableness to lead, asserting that fixed adjacent entree to opportunities and resources, women tin present results and volition actively question enactment to succeed.

“It is not astir whether the pistillate has the quality. Give her the accidental and the close enactment systems and she volition deliver. Women volition propulsion their value if they are fixed the chance,” she stated.

According to Hajia Alima, the relation of assemblage enactment is important successful advancing the implementation of the Affirmative Action (Gender Equality) Law 2024.

She noted that portion accepted leaders person agelong been gatekeepers successful section governance, spiritual leaders, peculiarly Imams and pastors, clasp immense power and indispensable usage their platforms to champion sex equity.

“Our accepted leaders are essential, but our spiritual leaders are revered. If they spell to the mosque oregon religion advocating for the Affirmative Action Law, it volition greatly summation nationalist consciousness and acceptance,” she added.

The forum, held astatine UDS Tamale Campus, was portion of post-2024 predetermination reviews, bringing unneurotic civilian society, accepted leaders, and improvement partners from Ghana’s 5 bluish regions to measure advancement and illustration a guardant way for inclusive governance.

The lawsuit concluded with a beardown statement connected the request for broad-based advocacy, aboriginal betterment implementation, and grassroots engagement to guarantee that the gains made done authorities construe into existent practice and impact.

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