About Girls and Women
Our Core Priority Areas
Improving Womens and Girl’s Access to Quality Education
NANA believes UN declaration that every child has a right to education, not only right to education but equally important is her right to quality education. This is because education is more than just a right it is the root to successful and productive life. It is clear that education trains an individual to be useful in the society and to meet up the need of the society for national development.
Improving Womens and Girl’s Access to MNCH & SRH Services
Maternal mortality is one of the major challenges to health systems in the world and sub-Saharan Africa in particular. More than 300,000 girls and women around the world in 2015 died from complications relating to pregnancy and childbirth (WHO). Ninety nine percent (99%) of all maternal deaths occur in economically developing countries, with Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia accounting for 88 per cent of maternal deaths globally
Improving Womens and Girl’s Access to Economic Opportunities
According to World Bank, Africa today is the continent with largest number of people living in extreme poverty. In view of the above statistical facts on poverty, NANA tends to empower women especially widows and youth. Women are segregated, have very limited access to education for political, religious or social reasons.
Women and Environment (Desertification and Energy Conservation
NANA believes UN declaration that every child has a right to education, not only right to education but equally important is her right to quality education. This is because education is more than just a right it is the root to successful and productive life. It is clear that education trains an individual to be useful in the society and to meet up the need of the society for national development.
Our Expertise
Active Projects
Momentum Country and Global Leadership
MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership supports governments, local partners, and initiatives at national and international levels to advance technical leadership and improve health care for women and children. In Nigeria, the project will address drivers of child, early, and forced marriage, and help prevent and reduce the impact of violence against women and girls, also known as gender-based violence (GBV)
USAID Health Workforce Management
Health Workforce Management Activity (HWMA) is a USAID Funded project supporting four states namely Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, Sokoto and the Federal capital Territory Abuja (FCT). Nana Girls and Women Empowerment Initiative is partnering with Health Workforce Management (HWM) for Grant Under Contract (GUC) 003 from February to October 2022. The grant is aimed at strengthening the capacity of Pre-service Health Training Institutions (PSHTIs) in Sokoto and Kebbi states
Women’s Voice and Leadership Project
The WVL project is a five-year project funded by Global Affairs Canada. The project is aimed at tackling the barriers to gender equality and supporting the empowerment of women and girls through provision of technical and financial resources to local feminist/women’s rights organisation (LWROs[1]) that are advancing the rights of women and girls and championing gender equality
Female Mechanic Workshop
Car repairs in Nigeria and particularly in Northern Nigeria is completely done and managed by men despite the shift in attitude that no longer see engineering training for men only. Further, there is no restriction in the University and Polytechnics engineering faculties against women enrolment. Yet, women especially the vulnerable once hardly enrolled in these courses probably because there are no opportunities to practice despite the family social security that provides support to vulnerable women is collapsing.
Closed Projects
Our funding Partners
