ActionAid Nigeria has concluded the training of 24 women peer education facilitators from 12 communities as part of its System and Structure Strengthening Approach against Radicalisation to Violent Extremism (SARVE) project in Kogi State.
ActionAid Programmes Manager, Women’s Rights, Nkechi Ilochi-Omekedo, disclosed this at the end of the two-day training programme in Okene yesterday.
She said violent crimes arising from extremism were on the increase with women and children often at the receiving end and there was need to curb it, using human development strategies through empowerment and Knowledge of rights.
Ilochi-Omekedo said the training was informed by the realisation that violent extremism had assumed a dangerous dimension.
She said the training was a holistic package that looked broadly at women’s issues, how to demand and negotiate their rights and build capabilities to positively impact their families and the wider environment.
Mr Anicetus Atakpu, the Humanitarian and Resilience Program Coordinator for ActionAid Nigeria, said ActionAid was currently taking a lead on the SARVE II project in Kogi and Nassarawa states.
