Group picture of the participants
Selected African women occupying
elected positions from 12 African countries are undergoing a two-day training
programme in Accra to enable them take up higher political and leadership
positions so that there can be fair representation of women in government as
well as judicious use of national resources.
The two-day training was put together
by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in collaboration with
Commonwealth Partnership for Democracy and Ghana’s Parliament to provide the
women with the opportunity to acquire vital professional skills as well as
contribute to problem solving sets that can help transform politic, Parliaments
and systems of elections into more gender sensitive and equal space for women
participation and leadership.
Opening the training programme, the
WFD Country Representative of Ghana, Dr David Appiah said the training
would be used to identify and prioritise action for the promotion of women’s leadership,
economic empowerment and political participation in decision making.
He said the WFD is very much
committed to deepening democracy in countries with emerging democracies adding
that his outfit has been working closely with the Parliament of Ghana to
promote democracy and women’s participation in politics.
The coordinator of the training
programme, Shanner O’Connell said African countries must emulate the examples
of Rwanda and Ethiopia where majority of the people in government and Parliament
are women who are exhibiting exemplary leadership.
She said when women are entrusted
with the management of the nation’s resources they do very well and provide
socio-economic justice to all citizens.
The Deputy Minister of Gender,
Children and Social Protection, Freda Prempeh who is also the MP for Tano North
for her part said the NPP government is working hard to have the Affirmative
Bill passed before the 2020 general elections.
She said if younger women and girls
will like to go into politics and take up leadership position then it would be
a progressive step for women in leadership position to mentor the young ones to
be bold to take up leadership positions.
By Thomas Fosu Jnr
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