Heritage Bank has been commended for being an agent for the actualisation of Sustainable Development Goals SDG 5 – Gender Equality, as well women empowerment for socio-economic growth.
This was stated by Kilali Tribe at the
Women Must Conference 2.0, titled “The Woman and Her Must” organised by The
Kilali Tribe which held in Port Harcourt.
The Kilali Tribe is an association of
prolific Rivers and Bayelsa State women who come together to support themselves
through peer learning, capacity-building initiatives, networking, and
mentoring. Also, provide similar structured support to other women within the
community.
Speaking at the event, Ivy
Davies-Etokakpan, President of Eveafrique News who also member of Kilali Tribe,
commended Heritage Bank for taking the lead in championing the empowerment of
women over the years in the country.
“We are proud of Heritage Bank for making
us soar while promoting women empowerment. Over the years, Heritage Bank has
proved to be an agent for the actualisation of achieving SDG 5 – Gender
Equality, as well women empowerment,” she said.
The Executive Director of Heritage Bank,
Osepiribo Ben-Willie affirmed the need to deliberately adopt measures to deepen
women empowerment to drive the nation’s socio-economic growth.
In her closing remarks, Osepiribo
Ben-Willie hinted that the Conference had leveraged Kilali Tribe to come up
with blueprint in promoting women’s equal right to socio-economic empowerment,
as this is at the heart of the SDG5-Gender Equality.
The Executive Director of Heritage Bank
affirmed that women all over have proved to be huge economic asset in the act
of creation of a new sustainable economy, hence gender inclusiveness and
women’s empowerment must be taken as a priority.
According to her, after evaluating the
bottlenecks restraining the Kilali Tribe and other women to attain the
platforms to grow professionally and thrive in all spheres of t heeconomy, it
is a call to action to “tackle the challenges of gender disparity and lack of
inclusiveness that have continued to impede the expected rapid economic
empowerment that could help unshackle our women’s entrepreneurial prowess and
foster more representation for women and girls at decision-making forums and
Board levels in comparison to their peers in the developed countries.”
Ben-Willie added that for women to emerge
economically and socially as independent there was an urgent need to tackle
psychological, social and skill constraints.
Collaborating Ben-Willie’s, the Co-founder
and former Group Executive Director of Sahara Group, Tonye Cole, advocated for
women and girl inclusiveness across all sectors of the society, including
economic participation and decision-making.
According to him, the country should be
conscious of gender equality, whilst emphasising that dealing with the
psychological constraint will enable women to be balanced emotionally.
He stressed the need for organisation to
leverage women positions on Board level, as they are resourceful and could
enormously impact to the growth of any society.
Cole also charged women in being deliberate
to position and champion course that would put them at the forefront of making
difference.
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