Category: grantees

$10,000 to mobilize and educate about 80 traditional authorities in 3 senatorial zones in Imo State of Nigeria on the need to include women in local governance and gender equality issues and to train about 200 people from selected community based organizations on good governance and human rights.

$30,000 to improve women’s opportunities for entering into politics and governance in two states namely Lagos and Delta States of Nigeria and to mobilize and train 300 women in Lagos and Delta States of Nigeria to participate in partisan politics and seek elective office at the state and local levels in 2015

$15,000 to support the publication of GADA’s newsletter (Women in Public Life) for the period, July 2012 – June 2013.

$15,000 to conduct advocacy visits to 3 senatorial districts in the project state to lobby stakeholders such as traditional and religious leaders, political parties, local communities and women groups identified to conduct media campaigns to raise awareness for women political participation in electoral processes.

$10,000 as institutional support to cover staff salary, carry out trainings for board and staff and pay one year office rent.

$14,000 to support women in the handicraft business to increase production; and to form a database of women in the micro and small scale manufacturing industries and microfinance organizations, government parastatals and banks with loan facilities.

$5,000 to establish a cassava/corn processing shed and purchase equipment to facilitate the processing of cassava/corn.

$4,000 to purchase palm oil processing equipment.

$4,000 to set up a gari processing unit to generate income for the group members.

$8,000 to organize an awareness creation on women’s human rights in 2 regions in Niger.