Monday 20 February 2017

Kaduna Assembly establishes Gender Technical Unit



Kaduna State House of Assembly in collaboration with the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have resolved to set up a Gender Technical Unit (GTU) in the Assembly complex and integrated in the system within a year. 
Rising from a meeting in Kaduna at the weekend, stakeholders including the State Assembly House committees on women affairs, information, pensions, judiciary,  security and intelligence and house committee on public accounts as well as Civil Society Organisations including Gender Working Group, Gender Awareness Trust, LEADS Nigeria, Affirmative Action Initiative for Women (NCAA) and Connecting

Gender for Development (COGEN) among others discussed the possibility of establishing an internal mechanism to boost the responsiveness of the State Assembly to gender and social inclusion issues. 
A communique issued at the end of the meeting and signed by representatives of the State Assembly, State Ministry of Women Affairs and representative of the CSOs, Hairy Gumbo Santana,  Mary M. Sawok and Dr. Lydia Umar respectively stressed the need to establish the GTU to act as a liaison between the legislature and CSOs as well as Ministries on gender and social inclusion issues. 
The stakeholders in the meeting noted that there are knowledge gaps in the legislative arm of government, the executive and Civil Society on legislative processes and gender concepts as well as gender mainstreaming processes. 
The unit according to the communique would provide a forum to collate information and galvanize support to gender bills, bringing legislators close to gender and social inclusion issues as well as bringing about close working relationship between CSOs and the legislature.
“It will also act as a resource center and a focal point for information pathways and will facilitate a harmonious relationship between the society and legislators," the communique reads in part.




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