GMAAK Champions train community members at 3 LGAs in Kano State

GMAAK Champions train community members at 3 LGAs in Kano State.

AREWA AGENDA – Connected Development (CODE) with support from the Canadian High Commission in Nigeria has galvanised mass action against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in Kano (GMAA-K), by demanding the passage of the harmonized Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act and the Child Protection Bill (CPB) in Kano State.

Over the weekend, trained GMAAK Gender advocates visited 3 Communities in a series of community step-down training at Kafi Agur Community of Madobi LGA, Saye Community Bichi LGA, and Kanye Community at Kabo LGA of Kano State.

The State Project Lead Abbas Adamu said, the step-down training to the rural Communities in the state is a way of building the community capacity of the members in handling GBV cases, Referrals and legal frameworks, and protecting young people, women, and girls.

Since the project’s inception in 2020 the organisation has conducted  numerous activities such as capacity-building, training for 30 people to serve as gender advocates, awareness creation via radio, and Policy Advocacy, and Engagements meeting to enable the ongoing pursuit of the project goal of having legal frameworks that protect and promote the rights of vulnerable people in the State.

Mal Abbas added that “The Kano State penal code along with the lofty provisions of the VAPP Act have been harmonized and the CPB has passed its second reading in the state house of assembly but yet to be passed into law,”
However, “The harmonized penal code/VAPP Act and the CPB have lingered for long as citizens continue to suffer GBV-related abuses” he said.

In each of the communities, the GBV trainees Set up a champions group to monitor, report, and document GBV cases within their Communities.

 
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