With the unprecedented increase in the cases of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria, Global Women for Quality and Sustainable Development (GWSD) participated in an advocacy and sensitization rally organized by the National Human Rights Commission in Benin City, Edo State. During the event, representatives of the National Human Right Commission, Federation of International Female Lawyers (FIDA), and GWSD…
GWSD facilitated the distribution of GRM GBV boxes to NEWMAP intervention sites and construction yards in 9 project locations. More often than not, community developmental projects are froth with grievances, a usual occurrence at different levels of intervention vis a vis project design, planning and implementation, however, addressing the issues of Gender Based Violence alongside grievance has also become…
The NEWMAP Federal Project Management Unit (FPMU) alongside the Umbrella NGO visited the office of Edo State Project Management Unit, the gully and erosion sites as well as business enterprises of the Community Interest Groups (CIGs), with GWSD/GPD participating in all the plenaries. In the course of activities, the team visited remediated Queen Ede gully site; the Urora Flood…
