As a mission-driven and community-facing civil society organisation, the dRPC recognises and documents the barriers and challenges faced by women and girls in the economy, education and health sectors as well as across all other segments of society. Empowerment is the dRPC’s strategy for transforming the barriers and challenges women and girls face. We approach empowerment through a two-program strategy:

1) leadership development training and mentoring programs for women and girls, positioning them as interlocutors with agency and capacity to transform the challenges of lived realities; and
2) capacity strengthening for the associations and organisations representing women and girls in the economy, education, health and other sectors 

The dRPC’s women’s economic empowerment project is implemented at the national level and in 7 priority states (Bauchi, Kano, Edo Benue, Kwara, Enugu and Lagos states) in collaboration with Gender Program Policy Advocacy & Communication grantees. The 7 priority states were selected based on evidence of significant medium to long-term economic development programs in states supported through international partner funding or technical assistance to increase the salience of women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria. By December 2023 when the Federal Government launched the National WEE Policy, dRPC, under the Ford Foundation BUILD project, launched the domestication of the WEE policy at the subnational level on 16th of April 2024. Since then, 8 states of Kano, Kaduna, Borno, Lagos, Kwara, Enugu, Cross Rivers, and Plateau have reached various stages of domestication, with Kaduna state launching the policy on the 24th of December 2024.