Two women’s soccer
teams from the African Union’s NEPAD Agency and the German Development Agency
(GIZ), would clash this afternoon in a special soccer tournmanment aimed at
raising awareness of Gender issues.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that former
Banyana Banyana star, Keneilwe Mathibela would be at hand to give the women
support, in the amateur game which kicks off at 14:00 at the CSIR
sports field in Pretoria.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that this is
the second time the two teams will meet in a match that was first played last August
9, to mark National Women’s month.
NEPAD says the aim of the
tournament in addition to enhancing the partnership between GIZ and NEPAD is to
highlight the important work the two organisations are doing to promote women’s
empowerment.
Among the several
interventions and programmes NEPAD’s involved in, is support through the Gender Spanish
Fund which promotes women’s empowerment via partner-led projects in west and
southern African regional economic groups, ECOWAS and COMESA regional groups.
On behalf of the
German Government, GIZ has been supporting the NEPAD in implementing its
agricultural programme CAADP, since 2007. The emphasis of GIZ’s support is on
policy advice, agricultural training and on adapting agriculture to the
consequences of climate change. Other support to NEPAD is for infrastructure,
both development aspects that have a bearing on women’s uplifting
The two teams will
compete for a trophy in a match that will be attended by staff from
organisations, friends and family as well as the media.
Staff Correspondent/NaijaAgroNet
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