To create impactful awareness on how to rapidly attend to victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV), Initiative for Women and Girls Right Advancement (IWOGRA), a non-governmental organization recently in Abuja organised a one-day Capacity Building Workshop for her newly constituted Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) Community Response Team on how to respond to SGBV cases within their Communities.
IWOGRA implemented the activity under the Global Resilience Fund for Girls and Young Women Project which is a collective response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Executive Director of IWOGRA, Nkechi Obiagbaoso-Udegbunam who also led a delegation of the traditional rulers of the town palace disclosed that the organization is implementing the project in three communities in Abuja; Jikwoyi, Katampe and Galadimawa.
The workshop which had girls and young women of the selected communities on the provisions of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015 with the aim of eradicating and preventing SGBV also to provide free legal counselling to victims of sexual and gender-based violence. IWOGRA however, provided a simplified version of the Act to enable the communities’ girls and young women understand the content.