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March 30, 2020

Promoting business opportunities for women around Niger-Nigeria border

  Import and export trade are some of the contributors to economic growth which leads to poverty reduction and improved living conditions. Import and export trade can lift many out of poverty in Nigeria where 87 million people are poor,  and in Niger where more than 40 percent of the population earn less than $1 a day. A reasonable number […]

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March 15, 2020

BREAKING GENDER INEQUALITIES

  Women Environmental Programme (WEP) on Wednesday, 11th March 2020 organized a programme themed: “Breaking Gender Inequalities,” to mark this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD). The programme held at WEP’s head office at Block E Flat 2 Anambra Court, Gaduwa Estate, Abuja. This year’s International Women’s Day has a theme: “Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights for an Equal Future,” which […]

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March 6, 2020

2018 Newsletters

  1st Quarter (January – March 2018) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW   2nd Quarter (April – June 2018) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW   3rd Quarter (July – September 2018) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW   4th Quarter (October – December 2018) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW 

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March 2, 2020

DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER AND CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN FOR NIGERIA

In 2016, Women Environmental Programme (WEP) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Environment and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a National Consultation on Gender and Climate Change in Abuja, Nigeria. The consultation which then Minister of Environment, Amina J. Mohammed also participated in proposed some recommendations in respect to gender and climate change issues in Nigeria. One […]

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February 27, 2020

NIMC KATSINA OFFICE HAS GONE GREEN

  The National Identity Management Commission’s office (NIMC) Katsina State has gone green. The office once devoid of trees now has different species of trees growing in its surrounding. On the 17th of October 2018, Women Environmental Programme (WEP) collaborated with MURNA Foundation with support from Trees for Cities and planted different species of trees at NIMC office in Katsina […]

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February 19, 2020

SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR WIDOWS

  Women Environmental Programme (WEP)  through the Women2030 sub-grants supported Community Agriculture and Environmental Protection Association CAEPA Cameroon to implement an action that aimed to prevent inhumane treatment of widows and guarntee their rights in Bali Chamba communities in Cameroon’s North West region. The project advocated against this inhumane treatment of widows among traditional and religious institutions and government, and strengthened the advocacy capacity […]

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February 6, 2020

2017 Newsletters

  1st Quarter (January – March 2017) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW   3rd Quarter (July – September 2017) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW   4th Quarter (October – Deceber 2017) – DOWNLOAD/VIEW 

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January 30, 2020

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CONSULTANCY FOR BASELINE SURVEY ON IMPACT OF SMALL SCALE CROSS BORDER TRADE ON WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

DEADLINE EXTENTION: The deadline for applications has been extended to February 26, 2020.   CONSULTANCY FOR BASELINE SURVEY ON IMPACT OF SMALL SCALE CROSS BORDER TRADE ON WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. WEP is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-religious and voluntary organization whose vision is to see a society where the environmental, economic and political rights of women, children and youths are protected. […]

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