SUMMARY OF THE TWEET CHAT WITH MS ABIGAIL ANABA

The NEIEF fellows had a tweet chat with Ms Abigail Anaba on the 1st February, 2018 on the topic “support for gender and social inclusion”. Ms Abigail Anaba is a journalist/writer. She started the interaction by given the connection between social inclusion, gender and human right.
Social inclusion is generally used when discussing issues on gender and equality in opportunity. Social inclusion should be treated as a matter of human right and not just an issue of gender. Although in the strictest sense, gender makes reference to whether a person is male, female or whatever else the person decide to be identified as. Once you mention gender in certain discussion the general belief is that you are talking about the rights of women, which is not so. We can’t discuss these issues without looking at our socio-cultural and religious landscape. Most of our cultures don’t allow women to participate in a lot of things in the society.
Women should have access to quality education and access to finance. Women should not be held back by culture and they should have the same fundamental human rights as men. It must be acknowledged that women have something sensible to contribute to the peace building process, this involved men allowing women to have a say and women too must be willing to be part of the process. For example women can form groups where they can discuss the things that are important to them and convey these thought to the right authorities.
Access to education and finance are two are the two major problems which breed others. Proper education would help society see that child marriage is doing more harm than good. It will help see that social exclusion of women is costing society economically, women need to be educated as to what their rights are and how they can get it, they are hardly online, so we need to take the message to them in the language they understand. Talking about finance, there should be avenues open only for women and the method of accessing this finance should be different because women don’t really have collateral but they repay when they borrow. There should be a way of ensuring that they get credit to use for their businesses without collateral and at cheaper interest rates.
If we don’t want women to be left behind anymore, we have to do away with those obstacles so that no area is presented as “men territory”.This is what equal access and equal opportunity is all about.

#NotAnotherNigerian

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