Today, girls from the Dora club took all they have been learning a nudge further by going into the community to speak to parents on the importance of children going to school and staying in school.#ChildRightsNG#GirlsEducationCharter#AmendUBEAct
On this #DayOfTheGirl We need to equip girls with transferable and lifelong skills such as critical thinking, creativity and digital awareness. Having role models will also be critical, especially in the sciences and other fields where the presence of women is sparse.''@UNSG
A4b: By rethinking our approach and design of current initiatives, by giving every girl a chance, breaking patriarching barriers and educating the girl child that she can be assertive towards her dreams, her reproductive health and body. #HerSkillsOurFutureNg
A4: By understanding that there is no growth without girls, no progress without girls, no society without girls and no life without girls. Girls must and should be at the center of all initiatives aimed at achieving demographic dividend across the world #HerSkillsOurFutureNg
@SuperGirlTimidi @Eseme01 @AfriyanNigeria @Unfpa_ypplagos @VoicesActive@savechildrenNG Q5. Effects of Girls' Education are
1. Later age at marriage.
One year of female schooling reduces fertility by 10 per cent.” – This means that she will be able to delay childbirth and this slows a nations population growth rate.
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Girls living with disability are also girls! Irrespective of their condition. There is no discrimination based on a condition of disability and our interventions must target the neglected population who have to work twice as hard to realise their dreams #HerSkillsOurFutureNg
@SuperGirlTimidi @Eseme01 @AfriyanNigeria @UNFPANigeria A4a.
By mainstreaming the concept of Gender Dividend into Demographic Dividend.
Gender dividend is the increased economic growth that could be realized with investments in women and girls.
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@SuperGirlTimidi @AfriyanNigeria @Unfpa_ypplagos @Eseme01@youthhubafrica We can empower the girl child to achieve demographic dividend by
1.Provision of effective Nutritional and Immunization support for girls from childhood to adulthood
2.Provision of Quality and safe education for girls up to tertiary level
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@SuperGirlTimidi @AfriyanNigeria @Unfpa_ypplagos @Eseme01@youthhubafrica A2c.
We can empower girls to achieve DD through
4. Provision Accessible Adolescent youth friendly Sexual and Reproductive health services
5. Protection of Girls from all forms of Gender based Violence
6.Skills development for girls
#HerSkillsOurFutureNG
A5: Education equips the girl child with the power to make the right choices, the capacity to proffer solutions to current pressing challenges and the skills to navigate the economic terrain of Nigeria and other developing countries. She need skills #HerSkillsOurFutureNg
Her role is numerous, from breaking chains of poverty, to driving advancements in research, science and technology, to effective policy formulation and raising healthy economically stable families, maintaining peace at this critical time of our history, etc #HerSkillsOurFutureNg