ABANTU For Development launches project to increase electability opportunities for females in Election 2024

ABANTU for Development with support from the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), has launched a project with the theme “Strengthening Activism for a Gender-Responsive Elections 2024 in Ghana," on the 18th of April 2024 in Accra.

The project is intended to increase the effectiveness of citizen actions for an inclusive, credible and peaceful general election in 2024.

The focus is on supporting joined-up intergenerational citizen initiatives at all levels of governance to secure the best gender equality outcomes for women and other marginalized groups.

The project also seeks to ensure that a higher level of national resources are directed towards addressing the perennially low representation of women and other marginalized groups in policy-making spaces through legislative remedies in this year’s election and beyond.

Madam Hillary Gbedemah, a member of the Commission on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, in her presentation, charged the women to realign their activism strategies to conform to current trends.