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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.
The First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. (FirstBank) has reinforced its commitment to women entrepreneurship with the inauguration of ”Spark A Gem Challenge”, awarding N10 million in grants to outstanding women-owned businesses.
More than one in five pregnant and breastfeeding women screened by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the eastern Chadian border…
The International Women’s Leadership Forum is backed by several key strategic partners, including Invest for Job, banking institutions, and, this year, Proparco and the African Guarantee Fund.
South Africa and the Netherlands sign MOU to strengthen bilateral cooperation promoting empowerment of women, youth and persons with disabilities.
The Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) and Nigeria’s National Correspondent to the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Hafsat Abubakar Bakari, will champion the launch of the Nigeria Chapter of the Women in AML/CFT/CPF Network on October 6.