The materials include posters, video documentary and a book, which was the focal point of the launch.

In a speech read on her behalf to launch the materials, the Acting Director of the Institute of Local Government Studies, Esther Offei-Aboagye said, the process for generating the products as well as the materials themselves provide enormous lessons for women's activism in Ghana.

She added that, the gathering of women that yielded the book also provided a process for prioritizing the common concerns on what matters most to women in spite of their different educational levels, religions, ages, professions, ethnicity and political affiliation.

The book titled "Positioning women and their concerns in governance processes: Experience of District Assembly women in Ghana" was auctioned for 6 million. It presents the insights of 76 incumbent women assembly members from all the 110 districts of the country, who among others participated in a consultative meeting towards the production of the women's manifesto in Ghana.

Speaking at the ceremony, the Gender Coodinator of Actionaid-Ghana, Rosaline Obeng-Ofori, called for unity of all gender advocate networks, adding that fragmentation will serve no good purpose in the fight for gender equity.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/200406100331.html