Sahi Ho Campaign:Talk 8
We had a guest speaker from UN Women, Ms. Meo Yokatta. She is the head of economic empowerment unit. She has been there to highlight and emphasize the campaign “Sahi Ho". She gave a brief introduction about the Sahi Ho campaign including that Sahi Ho campaign is an action oriented comprehensive campaign to mobilize people’s action and also influence their behaviour to bring positive changes in social norms.
She says that the one year advocacy campaign specifically targets women’s economic empowerment and leadership with the three focus area. They are:-
1. Women’s leadership in economic activity
2. Next is the difference between human trafficking and data migration which has been a phenomena in Nepal.She adds that this particular thing shall affect almost all economic activities especially in rural setting.
3. Women in agriculture as 74% of women are engaged in agriculture occupation. Their role and contribution to the development of economic sector in rural setting is a lot.
At the end, she says that in this campaign they would also like to challenge people’s way of thinking to distinct how they can embody women’s contribution and their leadership capacity in decision making and to move to advance women’s empowerment and then development in Nepal.