According to the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN), clean cooking stoves should be provided to Nigerian women in order to address health and environmental degradation as well as cooking difficulties.
This was said in Abuja at the start of the gender-sensitization course on the adoption of clean cooking solutions, which was organized for women, by the commission’s director general, Dr. Mustapha Abdullahi.
The two-day workshop centres on Clean Cookstoves for Women’s Sustainable Energy Development and aims to tackle energy-related issues from a gender-sensitive perspective.
According to Abdullahi, the program will improve women’s and their families’ socioeconomic standing.
This workshop provides a forum for the sharing of knowledge, the development of capacity, and cooperative efforts to encourage the broad use of clean cooking solutions. This is specifically designed to meet the demands and circumstances of women, who are mostly responsible for air pollution from cooking in the conventional manner, he said.
In addition, he stated that women were not the only ones who were disproportionately impacted by energy poverty and that the training demonstrated the commission’s dedication to mainstreaming gender issues in energy policies and projects.
Dr. Charles Odii, Director-General of the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), stated in his remarks that the use of innovation and technology would result in important advancements in a number of industries.
In order to foster the expansion and development of the country’s Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sub-sector, Odii, through Assistant Chief Enterprise Officer Mrs. Idorenyi Etim, guaranteed the continuation of their mutually beneficial cooperation between SMEDAN and ECN.