An extensive world development report on Gender will be launched during the scheduled World Bank meeting to take place in Washington DC late this month.
The report which will be titled ‘Gender equality and development’ is expected to avail findings on how really Gender equality matters and a key development issue.
“The data in the forthcoming Gender report is going to boldly ascertain that Gender equality does really matter and a key development issue and what we are trying to do now is to come up with data that would at least put those things that we have all believed.”
“Development communities have believed that Gender equality matters, we always have the action plans but we never come up with a proof of why really this is important,” . Omomunmi Mimi Lapido, the World Bank Country Manager in Kigali said in interview with Igihe.com.
Ladipo said that the report is expected to address the kind of assets that women have which can make them productive.
She said that the report would really avail data which will help governments to create opportunities for women and increasing women’s opportunity in agribusiness, giving them access to technology market information, and make them access to mobile phones.
The World Bank technocrat also said it was important to help women have access to finance and governments to have laws in place to enable them have rights to inherit lands.
According to Ladipo, the report will give data which will make governments determine how to reduce female mortality in Africa generally.
“In the African region and Rwanda in terms of women endowment, the focus should be the need to work on reducing female mortality, there are far too many women still dying at child birth,” she said.
“We believe by focusing on all those areas, we will see the returns to growth and development. We would like to see how governments adopt the pro-Gender friendly policies and how do they streamline that into their development programmes,” Ladipo emphasized.
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