Deconstructing Nigeria’s National Gender Policy (2006)

Gender equality is one of the prerequisites of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Gender equality is a development strategy critical to poverty eradication, improved health outcomes and living standards, and protection of the fundamental human rights of women. Empowering women, giving them a voice in decision-making and policy implementation, and ensuring their participation in economic activity and income generation leads to increased poverty alleviation efforts, improved standard of living, good governance, wealth creation and employment generation.