Alliances for Africa (AfA), with funding from the United Nations Trust Fund (UNTF), is currently conducting a community-wide sensitisation campaign with various women’s groups across the state. To consolidate and localise the provisions of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Law and push for its implementation to end all forms of violence against women and […]
With support from the United Nations Trust Fund, AfA commenced her COVID-19 strategic advocacies with Anglican Women Association at St. Mary’s Anglican Church, Oguta LGA of Imo state. AfA partnered with the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund and the Imo state Committee on Ending violence Against Women and Girls, to ensure that women were educated […]
The power of youth is the common wealth of the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in society can match the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people- Kailash Satyarthi The celebration of International Youths’ Day, highlights the difficulties […]
Frontline Non-Governmental Organization championing the causes of women and girls in Imo state, Alliances for Africa, (AfA), has held a consultative meeting with stakeholders in the state. The meeting with community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and traditional institutions with support from Citizens Center for Legislative Advocacy and the MacArthur Foundation at Rockview hotels, Owerri, aimed at […]
With support from Equality Now and SOAWR, Alliances for Africa (AfA), organized and facilitated a two-day workshop on increasing capacity of Coalition for the Domestication of the Maputo Protocol (CODMAP) on the provisions and Domestication process of the Maputo Protocol in Nigeria beyond ratification. The workshop was held in Bolton White Hotel, Abuja on the […]
Executive Summary This report is based on research conducted in the five south-east states of Nigeria, to determine the status of civic space, and the implications for individuals and organisations seeking to defend and expand civil and political rights. An open civic space is a situation where citizens are free to form associations, demonstrate in […]
Alliances for Africa with support from of IPAS has concluded its intervention in Imo state, Nigeria. The project bridged the knowledge gap of women and girls on their sexual and reproductive health and right, with specificity on safe medical abortion. Our planned intervention spanned from February to June 2022. The project was informed by confirmed […]
The management of Alliances for Africa organized a 4-day residential capacity training for her staff on Strategic Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation with support from UNTF. The training held at Rockview Hotels Owerri on the 19th-21st and 23rd-25th of June respectively, with its main objective to improve staff members’ capacity on Project planning and Monitoring and […]
We are saddened by the unprovoked attack on innocent worshippers at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic church, Owo in Ondo state, Nigeria that left scores dead especially women and children. This act by faceless bandit is highly barbaric, condemnable and outrageous! Moreso, by the gruesome way, life was snuffed of these hapless citizens in such […]
We have commenced the next phase of the schools’ sensitization campaign with support from the United Nation Trust Fund End Violence against Women project, (UNTFEVAW). The campaign targeted at promoting zero violence against young girls is tagged, ‘‘Protect me, Safe guard me, Don’t violate me’’, and is expected to cover 10 select schools across the […]