Benin Launches Operation One Girl One Pen For An Innovative Benin

Women scientists have a critical role to play in Africa’s development agenda, including pushing the envelope on gender equality, which happens to be the 5^th goal of the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. In Africa today, there continue to exist a very wide numerical gab between male and female scientist as the male folk tops the chart with more scientist. This gab has however been narrowing over years thanks to increase and sustained international pressures on national governments. On its part the Africa Science Diplomacy and Policy Network mindful of this reality in the continent has choose the path of not only engaging diplomatically with national governments, but to equally engage at the grass root community levels.

All these has been done thanks to the constant updates from the ASDPN Gender Coordinator who has severally alluded boldly that persistent gender inequality often severely limits the ability of young African female scientist from achieving their potentials and effectively contributing to Africa’s growing development challenges.

In the Republic of Benin, the ASDPN Country Coordinator Mr.Salem Ayenan and his powerful team on Friday November 2^nd 2018 in collaboration with YaliRiv Benin engaged young primary school girls of the Public Primary School Wadon (l’Ecole Primaire Publique Wadon) on the occasion of the official launch of the ASDPN Benin project code named “One Girl One Pen for an Innovative Benin”.