Women leaders seek more govt support for farming, action on child trafficking, early marriage in Niger

Women web leaders nether the Federal Government/International Fund for Agricultural Development (FG/IFAD) Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) person called for stronger authorities enactment for their farming activities, portion urging authorities to intensify efforts against the expanding levels of kid trafficking and aboriginal matrimony among girls successful the state.

The women said entree to authorities officials remained captious to their efforts to gully attraction to challenges affecting their communities, peculiarly cultivation support, women’s payment and the extortion of girls and children.

They spoke successful Bida, Niger State, during a capacity-building programme organised by VCDP-IFAD for women, younker and Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) web leaders connected advocacy and lobbying to power change.

The participants said they had succeeded successful gathering immoderate leaders and received responses to issues presented, but had been incapable to unafraid meetings with immoderate different authorities and section authorities authorities.

According to the women leaders, 1 of the large issues they privation to instrumentality to the authorities is the request for greater enactment for women farmers to alteration them to grow their cultivation activities, amended accumulation and lend much efficaciously to their families and c...