Author: Añuli Aniebo
Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being” the theme for Day of the Girl, 2023, resonates with me very strongly as one who has championed and advocated for leadership and decision-making roles for young women and girls.
In trying to unpack this theme, I reflected on the power dynamics and relations in order to try to re-think a realistic and sustainable possibility of reimagining girls as future leaders. Some institutions of power, discipline, and orientation across platforms have settled on projecting a discourse and the normalization of who a leader is (or[…]
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Dear woman, here is a story to remind you that you have the power to create your world. Ademola Omolade, a 22-year-old truck driver from Ogbomosho, Oyo State, born in Osun State, has said that she cannot drive a car despite driving trucks. Stating how she began to drive trucks, the young lady noted that[…]
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TheNigeriaWeWant is not so far from us but if we keep looking at the wrong places, our vision will only get blurry. In December 2022, the Nigeria Youth Futures Fund, and LEAP Africa with support from Ford Foundation and MacArthur Foundation Launched a youth-centred grant and HEIR Women Hub was selected as one of the[…]
Dear reader,
Arriving in the month of November in 2023 feels like a cocktail of emotions for me as I see the year winding up – how do you feel about the year thus far? I could catalogue highs and lows in the past months however they may appear, it has all added to shifting from a[…]
FACTS ABOUT YOUNG WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN LEADERSHIP
This is brought to you by HEIR Women Hub and Implemented by the Nigerian Youth Futures Fund and LEAP Africa with support from the MacArthur Foundation and Ford Foundation. @ng_youthfund thenigeriawewant
Respectful Workplace week.
A lot of things contribute to having a respective work environment in government, private, development, and informal workspaces. Over the years, gender biases in workspaces have been evident. HEIR Women Hub has had several research projects that have shown in recent times that the biases against young women in an average workspace are very present.[…]
CAPACITY
CAPACITY BUILDING FOR WOMEN. Capacity building is the improvement in an individual’s or organization’s facility “to produce, perform, or deploy. Wikipedia) United Nations defines cCapacity building is the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes, and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in a fast-changing world. The[…]
Dear woman,
You must know that the woman next door isn’t your biggest competitor but your biggest support. When women work together, the results recorded would be massive. Today, note that amazing things happen when women come together to do great things. Now that you know, let nothing stop you. ©️ HEIR Women Hub womenleadership #woman #motivation[…]
Our Thematic Focus and Concerns
Leadership: HEIR Women Development and HEIR Women Hub believes that women and young women are powerful change agents. The far-reaching benefits of development through gender parity in leadership and decision-making must be increasingly recognized. Our mission is driven by the need to improve the positioning of women and young women as leaders and decision-makers at[…]