This project will empower 250 women (mothers) and young girls (youths), in selected IDP areas/camps in southern Kaduna, in entrepreneurship and skills acquisition. It will also provide orientation workshops, conflict transformation, and peace-building processes and sensitization to strengthen or deepen peace and foster post-conflict economic growth and development.
According to IOM, between 21 June and 14 August 2019, 13,486 people displaced in southern Kaduna were scattered across some LGAs in the region, which lacked the facilities and capacities to absorb and cater to the IDPs. For example, Kajuru LGA had 11 camps -- with about 50,000 IDPs (mostly children, women, infirmed, and aged persons) in 2019 -- lacked the capacity to provide the basic needs such as clean water, shelter, clothing, food and other vital relief materials such as medical supplies.
Given the near absence of assistance from government and aid donors, the project will target three IDP camps where 250 women and girls will be empowered to help cater for themselves and their families. They will boost their incomes/independence with skills in bead making, tailoring, and raffia weaving. By sensitizing/educating them on how their attitudes, values and other complex social and political factors affect their lives, they can prepare for peace-building on return to their communities.
100 women and girls empowered in bead making, tailoring and raffia weaving; hence, equipping them with marketable skills and capacity to earn a living and care for their families. 150 women and girls have a clearer understanding of how attitudes and values affect issues of peace and conflict, and the quality of their lives. These participants also appreciate that they too can help transform their local conflicts and contribute to peace-building and social developments in their communities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
