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Madam Azumi Mesuno, Ambassador for Unpaid Care Work (UCW), ActionAid Ghana (AAG), has appealed to government to allocate budget to facilities that support women and girls’ empowerment.

She said the UCW, which were the basic chores of women in every home in the country, needed to be recognised by government through productive resources and extensive services for the needed support to be accorded to it.

Madam Mesuno therefore, has urged government to adopt the three R-Framework and make policies with them to ensure efficiency and fair redistribution of UCW at all levels.

“There should be equal redistribution, recognition and reduction of UCW at homes and at the national level for the burden of women to be enjoyed by all and not only women,” Madam Mesuno said on Tuesday at Kpobiman, when Ghana joined the world to mark the International Women’s Day.

In Ghana, Young Urban Women Resource Centre, a youth group under AAG, marked the day with other women’s groups of AAG to celebrate the hard works of women under the global theme, “Step it up for Gender Equality: Reducing Unpaid Care Work through Recognition and Redistribution to Enhance Economic Development of Women”.

The AAG also launched three new women’s group that would serve as an advocacy group to empower, equip, train and build the confidence of women in the Ga West District of the Greater Region.

Mr Benjamin Tawiah, Communications and Public Relations Manager, AAG, said the launch of the three new groups aimed at acknowledging and celebrating the efforts of women.

He said for the empowerment and skills of women to be upgraded, Ghana had adopted this year’s International Women’s Day theme to work around and empower the lives of women.

Mr Tawiah noted that the measure of every country was how far she had taken care of her women and children; it was the goal of AAG to empower women and encourage men to rally behind women and support their dreams.

“We want to make sure women have access to what makes them by helping put their needs forward,” he said.

Professor Goski Alabi, Dean, Centre for International Collaboration, University of Professional Studies, advised women to manage their time, career, family and selves accordingly as time management would help them to have access to information needed for their upgrade.

She also advised women to work hard, empower themselves and fight for their future instead of blaming their husbands for being against their progress all the time.

“Work consciously with time management, let us all be each other’s keeper towards our empowerment and share in our glories and success stories of ourselves,” she said.

Mrs Henrietta Lamptey, Regional Programme Manager, AAG, mentioned early child marriages and women being recognised as the only people to take care of the home as some of the disadvantages that worked against women.