Liberia: Increased Financing Crucial to Ending VAWG
Significant investments in the campaign against violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Liberia are crucial to helping the country achieve its gender equality goal by 2023. Development Diaries reports that the UN Women’s Country Representative for Liberia, Comfort Lamptey, said such investments will have a transformative impact on the lives of women and girls […]
Nigeria: AfA Launches App for Reporting VAWG
The Alliances for Africa (AfA) Mission has launched ‘Kpoturum App’ for reporting and documenting cases of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in southeastern Nigeria. ‘Kpoturum’, which means ‘call on me’ in Igbo language, was launched during a one-day media engagement. Programme Manager of AfA Mission, Blessing Duru, said the application would be used to […]
Nigeria: PIND Provides Update on VAWG
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) has reported more than 600 incidents of violence affecting women and girls in the Niger Delta between January 2020 and September 2021. In its Niger Delta Weekly Update for November 21–27 2021, PIND noted new and emerging trends of violence against women and girls (VAWG), […]
Apply: CSJ Resource Persons for SGBV/VAWG Training
Deadline: 23 July, 2020 Location: Abuja, Nigeria The Centre for Social Justice Limited by Guarantee (CSJ) is seeking high level resource persons to prepare and make presentations at its workshops on the eradication of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), Harmful Practices (HP) and the promotion of Sexual and Reproductive […]