Seven Members of Keccoh and one dRPC person went on a ‘Study Tour to Egypt on Health Mobilization and Advocacy in Muslim Majority Communities’. They were hosted by the Egyptian Family Planning Association’s Institute for Training and Research in Reproductive Health.
Upon receiving the request by the Sokoto state Primary Health Development Agency (SSPHCDA), the dRPC in its collaboration with KECCoH (supported by the BMGF) and Muslim Scholars that the dRPC trained under its SLaB Project, put together a team of experts to conduct outreach and sensitization workshop on vaccine accountability for the Routine Immunisation stakeholders in Sokoto state.
The Emir of Kano HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II undertook an Outreach mobilization visit to Ajingi Town, headquarters of Ajingi LGA on Sunday 19th November 2017. This is part of the activities of the Traditional Rulers for Women and Girls in Northern Nigeria project being executed by the development Research & Projects Centre (dRPC) and the Kano Emirate Council Committee for Health (KECCoH) with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).
dRPC was engaged by the Action Aid Nigeria as Third-party Monitor (TPM) to monitor the implementation of three programme areas of N-SIP (The Government Enterprise Empowerment Programme (GEEP), Home Grown School Feeding Programme and Job Creation Programme (N-Power)), in Kano…
Ending child marriage is critical for girls’ rights, health, wellbeing and ability to survive into adulthood. Ending child marriage lessens the burden on health infrastructure and reduces the human footprint of resource poor countries. It reduces human suffering, recognizes human dignity and challenges gender based discrimination.
While stories of Boko Haram enslaving girls and burning down schools abound in Western media, counter-trends of local champions leading the way for girls’ education in the West African countries of Nigeria and Mali largely go unnoticed. Despite real challenges—like…
2015 could prove to be a pivotal year for development. In the discussions to come, supporting local leadership in development should be given high priority. Since the revolution of participatory development in the 1970s, local leadership has bubbled up as…
There is growing recognition that girls’ education is an important and fundamental precondition for human security. There seems to be a new commitment among Ministry of Education officials in countries ranging from Malawi to Nigeria to Jordan, especially as discussions…
The year 2014 holds yet another chance to eliminate the harmful traditional practice of child marriage in a long struggle that has consumed the attention of gender activists, public health practitioners and human rights advocates over the past 50 years.…
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