The sixty-eighth session of the United Nation’s (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) is ongoing and will run from 11th to 22nd March 2024 at the UN’s Headquarters New York City. The UN have so far invited representatives of it’s Member States, UN entities, and it’s accredited Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) non-governmental …
Under strict the supervision of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), the Women’s Right to Education Programme (WREP), Nigeria’s Gender Equality and Humanitarian Tink-Tank have completed its 2023 consultancy as the “Third (3rd) Party Monitoring and Evaluation Humanitarian organization” of the World Bank’s Multi-Sectoral Crisis Recovery Project (MCRP) in Adamawa state. The World Bank, through …
By WREP’s Communications Officer In the last twenty-five years, Nigeria witnessed a significant progress in closing gender gaps in education. Thanks to both local and international non-governmental organisations who have been in the frontline despite security challenges, providing and advocating for resources to curb the excesses of the paucity of literacy especially in …
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PLRCAP Spotlight Taking The Lead Workshops WREP, a women led organization founded in 2002, and registered in the year 2003; provides assistance and works for the promotion of health, education and human rights for women and children especially the girl-child, with a focus on education. Their focus is to ensure that there is equal access …
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WREP implemented the project ‘Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on Women and Children in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in North Central Nigeria’. The Extractive Global Programmatic Support – EGPS emergency COVID-19 project is a World Bank project to assist ASM communities affected by the COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown by the federal government. The …
Women’s Right to Education Programme (WREP) visit to Mbalom Council Ward, Benue The Ukpor, Ayar-Mbalom Community, Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue State (about 280km round trip from Makurdi) with a population of 16,770 as at 2017 is situated about 90kms away from the Igbor Junction along, the Makurdi– Aliade Road. The community has …
Women’s Right to Education Programme (WREP) is implementing a project titled “Increasing the access of girl –child to quality education in Wukari and Takum LGAs in Taraba state, North East, Nigeria”, with support from the TY Danjuma Foundation. A large part of the Nigerian population made up of mostly women and girls lack basic education …
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The overall goal of the Women Lead in Agriculture project is the strengthening of existing and emerging women mobilization platforms and small holder women farmers associations for sustainable organizing for change and policy influencing in the Agricultural sector. Small holder women farmers constitute a large percentage of agriculture labour force but they lack access to …
REPORT OF THE SIDE EVENT ORGANISED AT THE SIXTY-SECOND SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN (CSW) Topic: The Intersection Between Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Rural Women and Girls: A Case Study of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria. Friday 16th March 201812:30pm – 1:45pmThe Armenian Convention Center, New York, …
