The Project Director, Momentum Country and Global Leadership (MCGL), Chioma Oduenyi, has hailed the progress being made in the fight against gender-based violence.
Oduenyi said many states are now putting in place measures to curb violence against women.
She said this during an interview at the end of a one-day interactive session with key government stakeholders and other USAID members to commemorate the 2023 International Women’s Day.
The one-day interactive discussion with the theme: “The Woman – Her future in the face of a technology fast-paced world,” was organised in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs.
Oduenyi said: “During Covid-19, when GBV was declared a shadow pandemic, there was a state of emergency declared by several states which led them to take a lot of action and I think those actions are yielding results because there has been a lot of attention to GBV issues.”
She also said there was a need for women to be key players in the technology space.
She said: “The tech industry is soaring but women are not embracing the space as they should. We talk about social and financial inclusion for women; if women don’t get involved they will be left behind.
“In a bid to ensure that women are carried along, they need to move with the time, and ensure that they are not left behind.”