Sadly, the results from all the three elections revealed the level of women’s political participation remains dismally low, usually declining. “It therefore follows that addressing gender imbalances and inequality to promote women’s political participation require deliberate actions to assess, analyze, and take actions in order that the structural and institutional barriers to women’s political participation are removed. “Civil Society Organizations especially women led CSOs engaged in training women’s campaigners and we look forward to read their accounts of women’s political participation in this respect. However, the limited capacity of women candidates to resource their campaign operations always sprung out during our engagements at various fora and with several candidates. Samuel Enders makes the case that VAWIE was an issue.”Amid the odds, Madam Pope-Kai also reported some positives which could mean great prospects for women’s political participation.
