An analysis of Nigeria’s 2023 proposed budget has shown that only N58 billion (0.29 per cent) is allocated to Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) programmes when measured as a percentage of the total budget.
This also indicates a 43 per cent reduction from the 2022 WEE allocation which stood at N103 billion.
The latest budget analysis was done by the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC), a non-governmental organisation that is focused on developmental issues of health, education, and gender, among others.
Further analysis of the WEE budget in the past five years shows an increase from N15 bn in 2019 to N25 bn in 2020, N51 bn in 2021, and N103 bn in 2022 but fell to N58bn in the proposed 2023 estimates.
The total number of WEE projects also increased from 275 in 2019 to 285 in 2020, 645 in 2021, and 938 in 2022. It however fell to 122 in the proposed 2023 budget.
About WEE
WEE is described as a transformative process by which women and girls go from having…
