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Dr. Toli H. Kiba and Rev. Fr. Joe Mariadhas with the participants at holy Cross campus, Dimapur.[/caption]
Dimapur, August 16 (EMN): in commemoration of the 71st Independence Day, the Development Association of Nagaland organised one-day workshop on ‘Women participation and leadership in local governance’ at Holy Cross campus, Dimapur.
The programme was organized to capacitate the women on the need for proactive participation in local governance by making informed collective action for the common good of the society.
Speaking at the programme, Rev. Fr. Joe Mariadhas said women who are empowered and able to realise their full potential, are incredible force in taking the whole nations forward contributing to their own well-being.
He said women need to make conscious effort to establish themselves in the social life as much as they would in their family life. The women play a vital role in ensuring that their families are self-sufficient, healthy and happy and similarly they can be catalysts of communities to developed and peaceful through their contributions.
The key drawback of the underdeveloped communities across the world is the underutilization the innate strengths of their women for the common good, he said.
The resource person, Dr. Toli H. Kiba, professor at NEISSR, spoke on the participation and leadership of Women in Naga polity, dwelt on the traditional modern governance systems among the Nagas and how the women have been denied their due position consistently. Focusing on the need for improving women participation in governance, she opined that traditional barriers have long kept the women under restraints and the result of the same can be found in terms of the skewed developmental indicators of the state of Nagaland.
The session was followed by a group discussion on the need for women participation and leadership in local governance.
