Sustainable development comes from a development process which enhances peoples' capacity to create and consume wealth on a lasting basis. Sustainable development requires, among other things, a socio-economic, political and cultural environment which enables people to engage in and sustain the development process. The political system should provide stability to allow people to engage in production. Intra-ethnic conflicts, tribal wars not to mention social tensions, as well as denial of basic human rights, constrain efforts to promote sustainable development. The social relationships between individuals and communities can as well promote or constrain sustainable development.
Social security is thus one of the necessary prerequisites for promoting sustainable development.
Besides social security, there is a importance of economic freedom. Economic freedom in this context refers to a condition which enables people to utilize their innovative and creative capacities in the development system; protects individual economic rights to have access to productive assets, including land rights; provides a right to control one's labour in terms of decisions to have interaction in economic activity of one's choice; and conveys a right to control the fruits of one's labour. It also implies a right to gainful a job.
In ideal conditions, therefore, women, like men, need political stability which guarantees protection of their basic human rights, social security to be able to drawn in productive activities, the right to develop and utilize their talents, fair pay for the work they perform, and the right to participate in the management health of their societies as intellectuals, policy makers, producers and consumers.
This is the context within which the roles of women in promoting sustainable development will be spoken about. But, before we do this, we shall briefly discuss the constraints which have limited women's contribution to promoting sustainable growth.
Social security is thus one of the necessary prerequisites for promoting sustainable development.
Besides social security, there is a importance of economic freedom. Economic freedom in this context refers to a condition which enables people to utilize their innovative and creative capacities in the development system; protects individual economic rights to have access to productive assets, including land rights; provides a right to control one's labour in terms of decisions to have interaction in economic activity of one's choice; and conveys a right to control the fruits of one's labour. It also implies a right to gainful a job.
In ideal conditions, therefore, women, like men, need political stability which guarantees protection of their basic human rights, social security to be able to drawn in productive activities, the right to develop and utilize their talents, fair pay for the work they perform, and the right to participate in the management health of their societies as intellectuals, policy makers, producers and consumers.
This is the context within which the roles of women in promoting sustainable development will be spoken about. But, before we do this, we shall briefly discuss the constraints which have limited women's contribution to promoting sustainable growth.
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