Ogun NFWP inaugurates project champions, records 3,486 WAGs

Ogun State has recorded a important milestone successful women empowerment arsenic the Nigeria for Women Programme Scale-Up (NFWP-SU) inaugurated Project Champions crossed 4 section authorities areas of the state.

DAILY POST reports that the authorities presently boasts 3,486 Women Affinity Groups (WAGs) comprising 83,664 women beneficiaries.

The initiative, supported by the World Bank, is being implemented successful Ado-Odo/Ota, Ifo, Ijebu-Ode, and Sagamu, with a people of reaching 4,000 WAGs.

Speaking astatine the event, the Special Assistant to the Governor connected Women Affairs, Augusta Araba, described the inauguration of the Champions arsenic a transformative question aimed astatine expanding economical opportunities for unbanked women.

She stated that since the commencement of the programme successful June 2023, the task has continued to reshape the socio-economic scenery of the State done fiscal inclusion, endeavor development, and assemblage engagement.

Araba commended the Project Champions for their dedication and resilience, attributing the programme’s occurrence to their progressive grassroots mobilization and advocacy, highlighting their relation successful facilitating the grooming and engagement of 440 ward facilitators equipped with skills successful fiscal literacy, integer inclusion, and endeavor development, thereby breaking long-standing barriers to women’s economical participation.

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