Lagos moves to domesticate national Women’s Economic Empowerment Policy

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The National Women’s Economic Empowerment Policy was launched in 2023 as a policy guide designed to provide financial inclusion...

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The commissioner commended NIPSS and dRPC for selecting Lagos State as one of the cohorts at the subnational level to work with in domesticating the policy, which she said is in line with Governor Sanwo Olu’s vision for gender inclusion and economic empowerment of all Lagosians. Earlier, the Director-General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Ayo Omotayo, disclosed that the visit was a follow-up advocacy engagement to discuss the implementation of actionable steps towards the adoption, domestication, and implementation of the National WEE Policy at the state level.PREMIUM TIMES delivers fact-based journalism for Nigerians, by Nigerians — and our community of supporters, the readers who donate, make our work possible.

 

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