Imbalanced funding access hinders women

This was revealed this week at Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) Africa region steering committee where they conducted election sensitisation campaigns for the forth coming general election in 2024.

With electoral campaigns are costly and time-consuming by nature, and more funds needed for better chances of success, the CWP among others aim is to address the imbalance of financial support between male and female candidates as well as promote gender equality within the Commonwealth nations. Chairperson of CWP Caucus, Nnaniki Makwinja outlined how only seven seats in parliament are held by women and that out of the seven, three are elected whilst four are specially elected.