In an effort to strengthen the role of women in conflict prevention,
peace making and peace building, UN WOMEN would train 32 rural women in
four local government areas of Gombe State.
The UN women Gender Technical Adviser, Women Peace and Security, Gombe
State office, Rhoda Zira Dia, disclosed this while speaking during the
two-day planning and orientation for community based women mentors at
Maidugu Hotel in Gombe yesterday.
Mrs. Dia said that the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and
Empowerment of Women (UN women ) is to implement an EU-funded programme on
promoting women engagement in peace and security in selected local
government areas in Gombe, Bauchi and Plateau States.
She added that “the programme is to strengthen women’s leadership,
advance gender equality and improve protecting women, children in conflict
settings”.
Mrs. Dia said that “Gombe State as one of the states for implementing
women peace Security programme is known for security threat and have had
its own share of the current insurgency happening in northern Nigeria”.
She said that four lead mentors were identified and have attended a
planning meeting with the women peace security team in Abuja and community
level 32 women mentors also have selected from four local government areas
to carry out the implementation of the programme in the state that the
four local government areas are Balanga, Kaltungo, Kwami and Yamaltu/Deba.
Also speaking one up the key lead mentors, Mrs. Hannatu Ibrahim, said that
the programme is key to promotion of love, tolerance and peace.
She added that ” without peace we will not be able to carry out any
activity and therefore our community based mentors I believe will benefit
from this workshop by listening attentively to what they will be taught so
that at the end of it, we go back to our communities and equipped enough
to mentors and work with our women, girls and men in peace and security
building”.