IMT Holds One Day Outreach and Sensitization on Youths in Public Service Delivery in Nigeria

The youth are, undoubtedly, the most valuable resource of a country – and a continent, the foundation on which the future stands, and the means for delivering on the prospects and potentials of the human experience. In Nigeria, they constitute both a huge source of hope and anxiety, in terms of what they represent for the national fortune and the gross inadequacy of the planning presently being made on their behalf.

In a one day campus outreach and Sensitization on tax, public finance and gender responsive public service that was held on Saturday, December 7th, 2019 at FT Main, Campus 3, IMT, Opposite Liberty Estate, Enugu State, IMT students turned up enmasse to grace the capacity building seminar.

The program is powered by ActionAid with Support from Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA).

Comr. Ugochukwu Anichukwu led SUG has reiterated it's commitment towards equipping the students with 'mind-assets' and promoting all programmes that will develop the capacity of the students, inform them, prepare them and presents them with opportunity that will make them outstanding amongst contemporaries across the globe

The more positive outcomes individuals experience as a result of public service delivery, the more trust and respect they would repose in the provider.

ActionAid is committed to advocating for human rights for all, prioritising work with women living in poverty. ActionAid is a feminist organization that recognizes that public services should meet the needs and priorities of different groups of people based on gender, age, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation and social context.

ActionAid has found that women living in poverty often see access to good quality public services as an important route to better lives for themselves and for their communities, and that a lack of gender responsive public services is both a source of inequality and a major barrier to poor and excluded women enjoying their rights.

Improving public services is vital to making progress on the fulfillment of women's rights to the city, the right to education, the right to a livelihood, the right to health, and many other social and economic rights. Public services have the transformative potential to create more equal societies, countering social and economic inequalities. Yet all too often, services are inadequate and do not fulfil women's human right.

ActionAid's human rights based approach leads us to analyze the power relations reinforced by governance arrangements, and to support people living in poverty solidarity and campaigns to shift power. To achieve gender-responsive public services, it is key to increase women's and girls: power in relation to decisions on public services.

Improving the governance of public services does not guarantee that a service is gender-responsive and of high quality, but it increases the chances that progress will be made overtime.

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