By Abdulmumin Murtala, Kano
A town hall meeting for women delegates from all the 43 local government areas of Kano state took place Sunday to mobilize women input into the 2019 budget.
The event was organized by the UN project called WPS-NETWORK supported by the Partnership to Engage and Learn (PERL).
The chairperson of the group Hajiya Hadiza Bala Fagge told newsmen that Kano state women are the first to be brought together to give their input into the government budget whose footsteps are being followed by other states.
She explained that they did this in 2018 and submitted to the relevant government authority some of which formed part of the budget.
“For the first time Kano state women have been assembled to put their input to the state budget in areas like education, health, agriculture and women affairs” she said.
She also explained that as a nongovernmental…
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