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Women Empowermentand Community Development
[A CASE STUDY OF BWARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, F.C.T, NIGERIA]
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1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Recalling
that the character of the UN (United Nations) re-affirms faith in the
declaration on the elimination and discrimination against women at the
present convention of which Nigeria was a signatory (CSW, 2005:8).
Recalling
that under the auspices of the UN, African Union (AU), International
and Local Organizations, the National policy on women was designed to
protect women against all forms of discrimination (Newswatch: 2000).
Concerned,
that women‟s right are human right and poverty is feminine. Aware that,
a change in the traditional role of women, as well as men in the family
and society is needed to achieve full equality between women and men.
Whereas common understanding of women as principal prerequisite in the
development of their communities, nation, region and globe.
This
study will therefore measure the realization of the pledge to grant
women equal access to health, education, legal rights, labor market
opportunities, public life and decision making position by year 2015
(MDG 2006).
With the drawing plans for a new gender policy on the
way, this study will contribute to an effective policy that will give
all Nigerian women irrespective of class, age, tribe and religion a
strength that can be reckoned with.
Also through this study
international and local sponsors will be educated about the
contributions of women networks to community development in Bwari local
government.
Finally, for the rural community these women belong to,
the study will improve on the awareness of individuals and groups to not
limit the activities of these women but to help them in articulating
their positions, situations and demands. This will in turn improve the
standard of living, enhance rural community resources and add to
national development and a successive continuation of human race.
1.6 DEFINATIONS OF TERMS
Community:
A social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality,
share government and often have a common cultural and historical
heritage.
Development: The gradual growth of something so that it
becomes more advanced, stronger. This is also defined as skill and
capacity, greater freedom, creativity, self discipline, responsibility
and material well-being. Rodney (1972)
Empowerment: To give someone
the power to do something. To give somebody more control over their own
life or the situation they are in.
Women: It is the plural of woman.
It is defined as an adult female human being. Women all over the world
constitute a gender group; they are a disadvantaged group based on their
sex.
Women Network: Women coming and working together in a group to achieve an objective.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Women empowerment is all encompassing, so this work will want to narrow it to the subject of women development and the impact of skill acquisition and economic empowerment. This topic has generated so much controversy in Nigeria, and the debate centers on appropriate type of development and whether they would help stimulate women toward their development. There is much ambivalence within every society as to the proper place of women in all the vital spheres of life. However, there seems to be a ... Continue reading---
