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The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Nigerian President on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in partnership with the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), has empowered 500 women in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, has joined Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to launch an economic empowerment programme targeting vulnerable women.
The Union Bank of Nigeria’s dedicated proposition for women, has partnered with Zuri Circle Network (ZCN) to empower 98 female entrepreneurs through the Fearless Female Founders (FFF) 2.0 Accelerator Programme.
The Federal Government of Nigeria/International Fund for Agricultural Development Value Chain Development Programme (FGN/IFAD-VCDP) says that supporting women farmers is not a favour, but an investment in development, food security, stronger families, stronger communities and stronger nations.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has called on Malian authorities to adopt specific legislation against female genital mutilation (FGM), following the dissemination on social media of messages supporting this practice, which remains widespread in the country.
In Nigeria’s Benue State in northern Nigeria, rural women are experimenting with new farming practices to cope with the effects of climate change while seeking to ease the burden of unpaid domestic work that limits the time they can devote to their farms and income-generating activities.
Across West and Central Africa, humanitarian crises are disrupting lives in profoundly unequal ways. For women and girls, conflict and displacement can bring heightened risks of violence, loss of livelihoods and barriers to services they depend on.
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The Nigerian Government has deployed its first standardised justice sector platform for tracking cases of violence against women aimed at closing long-standing gaps in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) data and accountability.
Nestlé Nigeria has marked the fifth anniversary and 10th edition of its Empowering Rural Women Initiative by supporting 50 women retailers in Zaria, Kaduna State in northern Nigeria with practical business training and grants in the form of Nestlé products valued at three times their existing stock.