FAEO Women in engineers
The Women in Engineering Committee (WiE) is a standing committee of the Federation of African Engineering Organizations (FAEO). Its purpose is to collaboratively bring together, empower, inspire, encourage, and share the achievements of women in engineering and technology around Africa. We believe that equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and aligned sectors is crucial to creating a sector which can address the challenges that exists in the African continent. African gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to the success of each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and we aim to inform debate, and use the power of engineering and technology to achieve equality of opportunity for all.
We believe that it is only by ensuring the rights of women and girls across all the goals that we will get to justice and inclusion, economies that work for all, and sustainability of our shared environment now and for future generations. The WIE secretariat is currently being hosted by the Ghana Institution of Engineering after taking over from the Nigerian Society of Engineers in January 2024.
Vision
To promote equality, diversity, and inclusivity in the engineering workforce (with a focus on women).
Mission
To harness the collaborative power of the group to attract, retain, and promote the cause of females and other under-represented groups using innovation and technology to achieve a sustainable world, that leaves no one behind.
External Objectives
- To create awareness of the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 5 and how it is pivotal to the success of the other goals
- To support outreach activities, capacity building, training, and empowerment of women to attain leadership positions in engineering
- Promote and measure gender disaggregated engineering metrics, the results of which can be used to advise policies on equality, diversity and inclusivity in the profession and measure progress.
- To collaboratively empower, inspire, encourage, and share the achievements of women in engineering and technology around the world.
To collaboratively celebrate World Engineering Day and other events throughout the year (such as International Women’s Day and International Women in Engineering Day) through our own activities and those of our members.
Internal Objectives
- To encourage women to join in other committees of WFEO and aspire to leadership positions.
- To communicate the work of WFEO and WIE to their own professional engineering organisations.
- To collaborate with other Standing Technical Committees and Policy Implementation Committees to conduct webinars, events and progress the other goals and objectives of WFEO.
- To encourage greater diversity and inclusivity in WFEO.
- To report progress on an annual basis.
WIE NewsLetter
April-May-June 2024
