Brief on One-Day Policy Roundtable Organised by Centre for Media, Policy and Accountability (CMPA) in Partnership with the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK, on ‘Gender, Insecurity and Resilience in the Global South’

This project is part of a self-sponsored suite of advocacy activities for building policy agenda […]

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Abiodun Akanbi

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January 19, 2025

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This project is part of a self-sponsored suite of advocacy activities for building policy agenda around the gendered dimensions of conflict, insecurity and livelihood support in Nigeria’s conflict zones, with particular reference to the North West.

Nigeria has been facing growing security threats from various non-state actors across the country:

Boko Haram in the North East, banditry in the North West and parts of the North Central, farmer-herder conflicts in the North Central, and secessionist agitation in the South East, as well as sundry other violent crimes throughout the country.

In each of these conflicts and security threats, women and girls tend to be the most vulnerable ed, from gender-based violence to loss of livelihoods to issues of poverty, lack of opportunities and social injustices. Yet, humanitarian policy response, from government is to overlook the gendered dimensions of these conflicts. In light of all these, the Center for Media, Policy and Accountability (CMPA), in collaboration with the Politics and International Security, University of Warwick, UK, organised a Dialogue with a view towards highlighting and advocating for policies that are nder sensitive in order to advance the effective voice and capacity of women and girls to stand up for themselves.

You can download the report from here.

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