Earlier today, Kogi State ACReSAL held a Stakeholders’ Consultation Workshop on Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
The Program, which was facilitated by the Centre for Non-violence and Gender Advocacy in Nigeria (CENGAIN) is part of a two (2) days engagement comprising Stakeholders’ Consultation and Data Collectors Training for the Mapping of GBV Service Providers in ACReSAL Project implementing States.
In her opening remarks, the Project Coordinator, Kogi State Acresal, Barr. Ladi Ahmed Jatto highlighted the importance of the ACReSAL Project in Kogi State, as well as stressed on the reasons why the World Bank, as well as the Government of Kogi State place so much importance on the issues of GBV in the course of implementing the Project in the State. She equally reminded all the Stakeholders present that they had been carefully selected as a result of the important roles they are expected to play in curbing and managing any incidence(s) of GBV in the Sites of intervention.
Concluding, the Project Coordinator thanked His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello – CON for his continued and dependable support for the Project, and equally urged all Stakeholders to show their appreciation to His Excellency by being “fully committed to the success of this Project in Kogi State”.
The Lectures on GBV were quite apt and timely, as participants were educated on the concept of GENDER, and its different application from society to society, as well as the various forms of GBV.
The training was equally interactive, as the facilitators gave participants the opportunity to ask questions bordering on GBV, and the controversial application of the GENDER question, which varies from society to society.
The highlight of the Stakeholders’ Engagement was the breaking of participants into two groups of MALE & FEMALE for FOCUSED GROUP DISCUSSIONS, which were equally quite engaging and educative.
Kogi ACReSAL… Greening The Environment… Saving Lives!!!
