Monthly Archives: March 2021

WARIF Launches School Related Sexual and Gender Based Violence Prevention and Response Protocol Document

WARIF presented a copy of the newly launched “School Related Sexual and Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response Protocol for Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria” to the Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folashade Adefisayo. This document, created by WARIF, in partnership with the Joint EU-UN Spotlight Initiative and the Lagos State University charts a path to creating safer spaces for students in tertiary institutions through SRGBV response and prevention as well as outlining proper steps in addressing accountability and punishment for those...

International Women’s day!

Today, 8th March 2021 is International Women’s day! This year at WARIF … we #ChooseToChallengeMen and Boys to Join the Conversation! A true game changer in the tackling the issue of violence against women and girls is to include boys and men in the gender based violence conversation. The WARIF Boys Conversation Cafe is an initiative that seeks to change the existing negative mindset of adolescent boys in secondary schools across the nation about rape and sexual violence. Encouraging them to be protectors...