Author: African Women's Development Fund

$1000 to hold community dialogues with a focus on violence against women in the 3 communities of Anua, Uyo and IkotAkpanAbia in AkwaIbom State

$10,000 to initiate an advocacy campaign and establish, equip and furnish a VCT Screening Centre in the Federal College of Education Gombe, Nigeria.

$4,000 to establish a cassava processing centre and purchase a gari processing machine for women in IkotAbasi Local Government Area. The proposed project is intended to create livelihood opportunities for women and improve the market value of cassava to enable farmers earn more income.

$50,000 to set up a credit scheme, organize financial management training and award small credits to 20 women from selected women’s cooperatives; Create awareness on gender based violence and the Equal Opportunities bill in Nigeria. The bill will be translated into Yoruba for wider circulation.

$4,000 to train selected women within Mulang community in Nigeria, in business and credit management and provide them with credit to expand their income generating activities.

$1,000 to organize sensitization seminars for duty bearers, custom keepers and traditional rulers on gender based violence in IbionoIbom Local Government Area within AlwaIbom State

30,000 to support the administrative and research works of the Executive Director of WACOL who is also the UN Special Rapporteur in Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children.

$40,000 for institutional development including staff training, staff remuneration and the development of a 3 year strategic plan.

$1,000 to mobilize 50 women and girls in Ogoniland for a peaceful march to advocate against the rampant occurrence of violence against women to commemorate the 2011 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence.

$50,000 as matching funds for the setting up of KIND’s Centre in Abuja which will facilitate KIND’s effort to reach different government institutions in the organization’s efforts to get women into leadership positions in Nigeria.