Female CEOs form Alliance for Women's Economic Empowerment

Recently, Female CEOs have united in order to strengthen their capacity in addition to building an alliance for advancing economic empowerment of women as well as amplifying opportunities to address gender disparity.

Some of the participants of the event includes female CEOs and women’s associations representatives that involves Women in Successful Career; Women in Management; Business and Public Service; Association of Nigerian Women in Business Network; Academy for Women Entrepreneurs; African Women Entrepreneurs; Warri Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture and Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities.

The primary aim of the alliance is to empower women and girls by making their lives better, pushing for improved economic policies implementation. It will enhance access of women towards public as well as private procurement in addition to opportunities for income-generation.

Beatrice Eyong, UN Women’s Country Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS during UN Women Economic Empowerment, WEE programme in Lagos said, “Nigeria has one of the highest numbers of female entrepreneurs in the world, yet women-owned businesses do not secure procurement contracts, suggesting systematic gender disparities in the procurement systems of both government and private sector organisations. The consensus on the positive correlation between gender equality and the socio-economic environment of a country calls for incentives to ensure equal opportunities for women entrepreneurs and their male counterparts, for instance, in the form of preferential treatment for marginalised groups when it comes to the procurement of goods and services.”