AWLO 2020: SIERRA LEONE READY AS WOMEN GATHER TO DISCUSS WOMEN, PEACE-BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT

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Posted By Tony Okechukwu

The African Women in Leadership Organization (AWLO) has announced and formally invites members of the global community to her 12th Annual African Women in Leadership Conference (AWLC).
 
In a press statement signed by the Founder/CEO, Dr. Elisha Attai, AWLO said the 2020 Edition of the Conference with the theme: Women, Peace-Building and Environment is scheduled to hold from 2nd to 5th April, 2020 at the Freetown International Conference Centre, Bintumani, Freetown, capital city of Sierra Leone.

The statement in part reads:
“The aim of the conference is to confer and galvanize action towards creating the rubric for peace-building, while maximizing the environment to advance women’s potential.

“With more than a decade-long history of impact, holding the reins of women’s leadership, the African Women in Leadership Organization (AWLO) continues to unlock new doors to African women and African American women’s leadership advancement.

“Every year, stakeholders build workforces to deliver gender parity as a result of AWLC’s impact in private sector, public sector, and civil society engagement. While also building bridges for dialogue between women and stakeholders, AWLC creates capacity building opportunities to engage women as primary stakeholders in the advancement of women’s leadership.

“After a highly engaging 2019 African Women in Leadership Conference at Kigali Rwanda marked by the support of the Government of Rwanda, Sierra Leone is set to host the 12th edition of the African Women in Leadership Conference.

“AWLC Sierra Leone 2020 shall call for Paper presentations from Academics, Researchers, Corporations, NGOs and Public entities. As a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact AWLO engages in work to support the UN Women’s mission and promote corporate Sustainability through the ten Principles.

“Conference Sessions will highlight concerns on environment, and the impact of its exploitation on women, and the assets that are women in playing pivotal roles in peace-building. It assesses the potential impacts of multi-sectoral collaborations in mapping, negotiating and navigating the future of Women already facing the threats of environmental and climate change and multiple forms of violence, globally.


Furthermore, Attai said, ‘I consider it a privilege to stir a movement, calling on people of all gender to work in togetherness for changing the narrative of gender relations and social balance. This is the tenets on which AWLC is built – cultivating togetherness towards advancing women’s leadership. There is nothing like when we contribute towards deepening the global vision of sustainable development”,

In another development, the Chief Host of the AWLO Conference Sierra Leone 2020, Her Excellency, Mrs. Fatima Bio, the First Lady of Sierra Leone, says “To empower the woman is to empower her immediate and larger society for the greater good”. For her this is a proud moment, to participate in forging new gender narratives in Africa, as she puts it that “Pushing the envelope for women liberation in corporate, social and political engagements as well as their stability and collective progress is the way to go at this time”.


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