COMPLETED PROJECTS

X-GRANT COVID-19 INTERVENTION PROJECT

Background WRAPA is working within and coordinating the contributions of a Coalition of eight (8) core women’s Rights groups Advocacy Nigeria, Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF), Kebetkache, International Women Communication Centre (IWCC), Women Advocacy Research Documentation Centre (WARD C), Civil Resource

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Promoting Safety and Security for the Girl-Child Education in North Eastern Nigeria Project (PSSGE)

Funding Partners

MacArthur Foundation

Collaborating Organizations

Centre For Information Technology and Development (CITAD), ADOPT-A-CAMP

Background Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is one of those groups in a national movement leading a coordinated effort by concerned women, youth and professionals across Nigeria advocating for the quick rescue and return of the nearly 300 young girls abducted by insurgents in a girls secondary school in Chibok, in Borno state north-east Nigeria. Under the national rubric, bring Back Our Girls. WRAPA’s participation is pr

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MAPPING OF SEXUAL AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN INTERNALLY DISPLACED CAMPs & SELECTED COMMUNITIES IN BORNO STATE NORTH EAST NIGERIA

Funding Partners

TrustAfrica

Background The increasing spread of nefarious activities of the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria, massive violation of human rights, loss of lives and destruction of infrastructure are serious issues that cannot be dismissed with a wave of a hand. According to the Human Rights Watch (2014), Boko Haram insurgency has led to the high rate of human casualties, as thousands of deaths have been recorded from 2009 to 2014. These numbers have changed the status of women into widows and th

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Gender and Accountability Project

MacArthur Foundation

Advocacy Nigeria, Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF), Kebetkache, International Women Communication Centre (IWCC), Women Advocacy Research Documentation Centre (WARD C), Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC) and Voice of Women FM (WFM 91.7)

Background - Corruption is a destructive and complex trend that permeates the human, social and economic fabric of institutions and nations. The consequences however are grave due to the systemic erosion of public resources that could be deployed to the general good of all. In Nigeria, the impact of corruption has stifled growth and development depriving citizens of access to basic services, declined productivity with accentuated low personal income. These and others have bec

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Gender and Accountability Project (Corruption Wordmap)

Islamic Family Law Project in North Western Nigeria (IFL), Phase Three.

Funding Partners

MacArthur Foundation

Background The WRAPA Islamic Family Law project is being implemented with support from MacArthur Foundation and the Governments of the seven Northwest States to enhance the application and improve practice around Islamic Family Law matters. The project grew out of concerns with the way and manner Islamic family law and practice was understood and practiced in the 7 North Western States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara. Assumption was rooted in the u

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Enhancing Women’s Political Participation – through mass political party registration and primary contestation in Northeast and Northwest Nigeria Supported by National Endowment for Democracy NED (2013 – 2015)

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Collaborating Organizations

Background Democracy prospers on the build-up and sustenance of critical numbers of ‘followers’, ‘sympathizers’ around ideals or concerns evolving into corporate entities, which subject to statutory requirements, crystallize into the membership of a movement or a political party. This stage of evolution of political parties becomes a critical factor of the award of stakes and roles especially for the founding members. With maturity, the party designs and imp

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Haki Mkononi: A Regional Legal Empowerment Programme for Women’s Rights in Kaduna and Plateau States

Funding partners

OXFAM GB

Collaborating Organizations
Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women (LACVAW)

Supported by OXFAM GB (November, 2015 - March, 2017) BACKGROUND Despite efforts of organisations working on gender equality, economic growth, and a deepening of democracy across the African continent over the last decade, discrimination against women persists and millions of women and girls continue to have their fundamental freedoms and human rights denied or systematically violated. The project is managed by Oxfam and the 44 member strong Solidarity f

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WRAPA'S Haki Mkononi project holds training for parliamentarians

Enhancing Access for Justice for Women- Legal Aid Services

Funding partners

Collaborating Organizations

BACKGROUND Establishment of legal aid clinics and legal aid committees in 21 states which receive and pursue litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods to enforce the rights of women and seek redress in situations of discrimination or the violation of the rights to human dignity especially in situations of domestic violence, cultural disinheritance, public/work place harassment and gender discrimination. OUTCOMES / IMPA
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Islamic Family Law Project in North Western Nigeria (IFL)

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Collaborating Organizations

Phrase One (2008 - 2015)
BACKGROUND Islam and Shari’a law is historically acknowledged to have liberated women and provided them with rights and protection, yet women still suffer oppressive treatment through various forms of deprivation and discrimination in the societies where Islamic law is in practice especially the North Western states of Nigeria. This negative situation of women is accentuated by inadequate knowledge within the ranks of Muslims an
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Gender & Affirmative Action Issue-Based Project (GAA-IBP)

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Collaborating Organizations

BACKGROUND Gender Affirmative Action (GAA) is a platform of women-focused government and non-government organizations supported by DFID through its Coalitions for Change (C4C) Programme (July 2008 – Sept 2011). GAA is overseen by a Steering Committee comprised of 8 institutions from both the demand (civil society demands for change) and supply side (government supplies the change). GAA employs an Issue based approach that engenders interventions constructed around issues and felt need
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