The Chief Executive Officer of TEERE, a Non Governmental Organization, Professor Avea Nsoh has called on the Bongo District Assembly in the Upper East Region to consider women candidates who will participate and lose the upcoming 2023 district level elections during appointment of members.
According to Prof. Avea, involving women in decision making structures at the local level will strengthen and reaffirm their widely known belief that, they are good managers of the home and by extension district, region and country.
In the last district assembly elections, the only 2 female candidates who contested against 103 male candidates in the Bongo district lost.
In a speech delivered on his behalf at a forum at Bongo District on Friday March 10, 2023 on the theme ‘Women Empowerment and Their Participation in Local Governance’ (WEPLOG), Prof. Avea said it is a worrying trend and “We cannot pretend to see the under representation of women in our decision making structures when women constitute the greater part of Ghana’s population”.
Presence were the Bongo District Chief Executive, Traditional Leaders, Gender Desk Officers and young women of the Bongo district.
In partnership with STAR-Ghana, with funding support from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), TEERE is implementing the project in Bongo district and Kassena-Nankana municipal.
The project which seeks to mobilize and empower women towards 2023 district assembly elections is also aimed at deliberately whipping their interests in the developmental concerns of the nation.
Prof. Avea however encouraged all to “press home the need to pass the Affirmative Action Bill as it will guarantee an automatic quoter for women and the vulnerable groups”.
“If the woman can manage the home, why can’t she be able to manage a department, a district, a region or even the country? He quizzed.
He called on women to come out in their numbers to contest in the upcoming 2023 District Level Election slated for October.
