By Zubairu Idris
The United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-funded project, ‘Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG)’, has conducted a workshop for stakeholders to enhance women’s protection in Katsina communities.
This is to enable the stakeholders strengthen women peace and provide effective response to sexual violence-related issues in Katsina State.
The workshop is themed: “Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) Prevention, Response, Monitoring and Reporting in Katsina State.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that SPRiNG is a four-year funded programme being implemented in the North-West and North-Central Zones of Nigeria.
The programme seeks to support efforts at peace-building, improving security and promoting resilience to climate change.
The Programme Regional Manager, Mr Abdulkadir Sambo, disclosed this to newsmen during the workshop on Friday in Katsina.
He said the workshop aimed to strengthen the capacity of relevant institutions towards implementing WPS commitment, promote survivor-centered and rights-based approaches in response to CRSV, among others.
“We try to reflect on our journey as a country, where we came from the National Action Plan 1, 2, and down to 3, and domesticating them across the state.
“In Katsina, we have the State Action Plan, which was domesticated some years ago, and we are looking at how we can come together and assess our progress in terms of how we are responding to some of the contents of the Action Plan and see where we are.
“Where there is a need for us to review and re-programme so that we can deliver better for the people of Katsina State,” he said.
He revealed that they were doing that with stakeholders across MDAs, civil society organisations, security actors and other institutions of government.
“So, just coming together to look at individually where our roles are and collectively where we can come together to deliver better in terms of our Action Plan,” he said.
According to him, whenever there is conflict, most affected people are vulnerable people, who are women and children.
“So, we are not just looking at women and children in terms of involvement. We are looking at them right from the concept of thinking,” he revealed.
(NAN)
