Accelerating Effort to Mitigate Gender-based Violence in Nigeria.

The Women’s Voice Leadership Project (WVL), Nigeria Project

The WVL-Nig. Project is a five-year project supported by Action Aid Nigeria with funding from Global Affairs Canada. The project aims at tackling the barriers to gender equality and supporting the empowerment of women and girls through provision of financial and technical resources to local feminist/women’s rights organizations in Nigeria.

Working with Parent-Child Intervention Center (PCIC) under this intervention efforts to eliminate discrimination and rights violations in policy and legislation and the provision of services, as well as harmful social beliefs and practices was a brilliant opportunity for me to make contributions that promote access to education as an important process in mitigating gender-based violence.

Objectives of the project

1. To increase access to a comprehensive and well-coordinated GBV response services for survivors in Enugu State, focusing on 5 communities.
2. To increase awareness and enhance systems for the prevention of GBV through mitigating risk factors and strengthening community protection strategies.

Impact

1. The project provided for the overall wellbeing of over 50 GBV survivors in Enugu State focusing on 5 communities through medical support, food supply, and critical psychosocial case management interventions.
2. Enhanced safety and protection of 50 vulnerable women and girls in Enugu focusing on 5 communities to prevent exposure to violence and ensuring access to dignified response services.
3. Strengthened capacity of 50 community women (Women Action Group) on BGV response and protection of potential GBV Survivors in community
4. Strengthened Community based protection systems thereby enhancing accountability and respond to GBV cases within affected communities.
5. Set up temporary safe and confidential home for survivors.