Kenyan Women Engineers task FG on Inclusion of Engineers In Policy Formulation

From Ene Asuquo, Calabar .

The Chairperson, Kenyan Women Engineers Committee, Nairobi, Jennifer Gache, has canvassed engineers’ inclusion in the country’s policy formulation process, so that the engineering sector can assist the nation achieve rapid development.

Gache made the advocacy during the dinner party organized by the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN ) to host its Women Engineers across the continent of Africa in Càlabar.

Speaking on the theme; “Engineers Innovation and Energy Security for Sustainable Future”, Gache stressed that non-inclusion of engineers in policy formulation is responsible for failure in policy implementation in the area that bothers on engineering, a situation she said is retarding the sector.

“I am very, very well acquainted with women engineers in my country.

While advising women engineers to seek leadership positions in the government of Nigeria, Gache states that the positions will afford them the privilege to contribute their quota to the growth of the sector and the nation at large.

“You don’t make policies without engaging engineers. Engineers should also avail the opportunity to participate in policy process and implementation.

” You cannot call engineers when you have already done the design. No nation develops without engineers being involved.

“Engineers are wired with certain challenges that can be solved only by those in the profession.

“Just give them the privilege to gather together, speak in one voice, you will see that that problem in the sector will be solved without a hitch”. She maintained.

Also speaking at the event organized by Professional women engineers to round up the association’s 2024 international conference and Annual General Meeting AGM with the theme; Engineering Innovations and Energy Security for Sustainable Future,