Sexual reproductive health right advocacy by CWIDI

  CWIDI engages the Monitoring & Evaluation unit of the Federal Ministry of Health on M&E adolescent & youth-friendly health in Nigeria. Nigeria is revising its policy with an M&E section included   WE FM 95.1 .Radio talk discussion on Family planning, effect of gender base violence, how to seek redress whenever they experience any type of violence and calling on parents for early discussion of issues on sexuality, WATCH DOG committee on GBV at Pakio community of Gwagwalada FCT expressing ownership introducing more strategies to ensure that women are excluded from any form of violence With Support from Women Deliver, CWIDI and her partners have continued to promote the sexual, reproductive health and rights of young people i n Gwagwalada FCT Abuja through social media platform such as WhatsApp, twitter, blogging and visits to hot spots like football view centers, restaurants, clubs etc.   In the month under review; CWIDI trained volunteers reached a

Sexual reproductive health and rights most times generally operate on the premises that young people are engage in consensual sexual activity, but unfortunately sexual abuse is common among young people and victims of sexual violence have a different sexual and reproductive health needs from young people who have consensual sexual activity and it should be delivered accordingly. One of the strategy developed for the prevention of HIV/AIDS is the provision of sexual and reproductive health services for young people but providing medical response effort for sexual violence for young people is not majored in the plan because little or no response is provided for victims of sexual violence. Most times when defining interventions for young people, we should realize that there are two categories of young people. First are young people who involve in consensual sexual activity and second are young people who involve in non-consensual sexual activity and both demands different sexual and r

Since 1954 that it was first observed, the Universal Children’s Day in November 20 th every year has been dedicated to issues on child development. The 2018 edition of the Day was dedicated to promotion of children education, protection and fulfilment of their God-given potentials. The world decided to go blue in order to symbolically drive the message home in every country. Through the #GoBlue, the United Nations encouraged all and sundry to do three things: i.                     Celebrate children by wearing blue clothing or accessories and share with the world on social media; ii.                    Take part in the world’s largest lesson using the School Activity Packs (designed by UN); and iii.                  Transform their website and social media platforms by turning them blue for the day (adapted from http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/ ) Apart from the normal news from mainstream media on the significance of the Day, 2018 Universal Children’s Day went lik

Women Deliver has continued to support the project of Advancing Sexual Reproductive Health needs of young people in Gwagwalada community of FCT. The goal of the project is to promote the sexual, reproductive health and rights of young people. The success achieved in the month under review was built from the previous month. CWIDI continue to utilize various social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter , WhatsApp and blogging ) to share Sexual Reproductive Health information and key messages; engage, stimulate conversation, and respond to health needs of members on WhatsApp. The WhatsApp platform provided an avenue for young people to express their fears. Majority of the group members saw it as a safe space to discuss some of their sexual & reproductive challenges, get guidance which eventually lead to behavioral change.   Also, the opportunity to recap some of the SRHR topics often especially when there are new members gave young boys and girls the privilege to refresh their knowled

One of the highly misconstrued issues about women development is women empowerment. Many things referred to as women empowerment are not; they are just hand-outs or ‘peanut’ that only guarantee momentary relief but never lead to women emancipation from poverty.   This misconception, therefore, is one of the reasons for the deep-seated poverty among Nigerian women. To be sure, women empowerment is a process of awareness and capacity building leading to greater participation, to greater decision-making power and control, and to transformative action (Rahman, 2013:11). It is said to be a process of positive change that improves women’s fallback position and bargaining power within a patriarchal structure, and identify different causal pathways of change; material, cognitive, perceptual and relational. This implies that any women empowerment programme, project and/or policy that do not guarantee greater women participation in decision-making that positively changes the course of thei

Sexual reproductive health and rights most times generally operate on the premises that young people are engage in consensual sexual activity but unfortunately sexual abuse is common among young people and victims of sexual violence have a different sexual and reproductive health needs from young people who have consensual sexual activity and it should be delivered accordingly. One of the strategy developed for the prevention of HIV/AIDS is the provision of sexual and reproductive health services for young people but providing medical response effort for sexual violence for young people is not majored in the plan because little or no response is provided for victims of sexual violence. Most times when defining interventions for young people, we should realize that there are two categories of young people. First are young people who involve in consensual sexual activity and second are young people who involve in non consensual sexual activity and both demands different sexual and r