Group Mobilises Stakeholders Against Gender-based Violence

Amid the increasing load of Gender-based Violence, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL) has held a two-day store to mobilise Christian leaders and different stakeholders against the problem.

The workshop, Empowering Christian Women and Women Leaders of Culture for Prevention and Response to Gender-based Violence successful Nigeria done the Strengthening of Grassroots Organisations, was held successful Lagos and funded by the Ford Foundation West Africa office.

Addressing journalists astatine the two-day event, which antithetic stakeholders attended, the Executive Director of WACOL, Prof. Joy Ezeilo (SAN), said the organisation is committed to promoting sex equality, advancing women’s rights, and ensuring entree to justness for women, children, and radical with disabilities successful Nigeria.

She said the task is simply a captious inaugural that aims to make lasting alteration successful communities crossed Nigeria by strategically partnering with grassroots organisations.

Ezeilo added that the task is uniquely positioned to code the basal causes of gender-based violence, situation harmful taste and spiritual norms and beforehand sex equality astatine each level of society.

“The task assistance seeks to empower Christian women and women leaders successful civilization to beforehand sex equality, forestall gender-based unit and execute societal translation successful Nigeria.

“Christian women and women leaders of civilization play a captious relation successful their communities, families and churches. However, they often look gender-based challenges and barriers that bounds their information and leadership. This task aims to prosecute Christian women and leaders from divers cultures crossed Nigeria successful becoming much sex sensitive, thereby promoting equality and societal transformation.

“WACOL encouraged continued dialog and concern crossed denominations, taste groups and regions to guarantee that the momentum generated by this task extends acold beyond its duration,” Ezeilo said.

The radical held that existent societal translation tin beryllium achieved lone done sustained advocacy, education, and assemblage engagement.

She listed the organisation’s deliverables and milestones to see improvement of of a applicable manual for Christian and assemblage women to forestall sex based unit and code harmful cultural; engagement of 100 Christian women’s radical crossed denomination passim Nigeria: grooming of astatine slightest 1,000 women spiritual leaders crossed each six geopolitical zones successful 2 years: to scope retired and bid astatine slightest 500 taste women leader, including ‘Umu Ada’ successful Igbo onshore and different female, chiefs, titled women crossed Nigeria.