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Training of Community Leaders on the Ebonyi State VAPP LAW

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By Emmanuel Toochukwu Ekuma, Program Officer Across communities in Ebonyi State, people experience all forms of violence ranging from physical, sexual, psychological, verbal, emotional or economic violence. These infringe on and impair the enjoyment by people of their human rights and fundamental freedom. Therefore, Ebonyi State has adopted the “Violence Against Persons Prohibition” (VAPP) law …

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Smallholder women farmers advocate for increase budgetary allocations to Agriculture

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By Patience Ugochi Joseph, Program Officer SUPIA As an organization working to eradicate poverty, promoting social justice and gender equality, and a group working on budgets and budgetary process, Participatory Development Alternatives with support from ActionAid through the Scaling up Investment Public Agriculture (SUPIA) have successfully organised a one-day Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on the 2022 …

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Support Given to Trained Girls with Seed Grant

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By Emmanuel Toochukwu Ekuma, Program Officer On May the 10th 2021, the faces of the Amuro and Ozziza representatives, especially the young girls who were selected for skill acquisition training beamed with joy as the trained girls received certificate of graduation following their successful completion of the 1-year hairdressing skill acquisition program. Each of the …

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INVESTMENT TO AGRICULTURE CAN EXPLORE POTENTIAL OF SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS BY: Patience Ugochi Joseph- PROGRAM OFFICER PFA

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Agriculture remains an important sector of the country’s economy. This is as a result of the role which the sector contributes to the well-being of the teeming population such as provision of food for the increasing population, generation of employment opportunities and supply of adequate raw materials to industries. Similarly, according to National Bureau of …

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CLIMATE RESILIENCE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (CRSA) AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO FOOD SECURITY By: Ekuma Emmanuel Toochukwu – PROGRAM OFFICER

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Farming and livestock rearing are the main livelihood for over 80 percent of households in Ebonyi State and Nigeria at large (Egwu, 2015) and about 90% being smallholder farmers with an average farmland size of 1.5 to 3.0 hectares (Ebonyi State Agriculture Policy – 2010). According to the National Bureau of Statistics report of Quarter …

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RISK COMMUNICATION AND THE GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS By: Okocha John Otu – Child Sponsorship Officer-PDA

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The world is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19 pandemic, which started in November 2020, with new cases and deaths recorded. Governments all over the world and corporate bodies like World Health Organizations (WHO), donor agencies, NGOs, research institutes, pharmaceutical companies, etc. are making relentless efforts to find solutions to the global pandemic. Safety measures introduced …

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ENHANCING WOMEN POLITICAL CAREER THROUGH THE FIVE (P) PILLARS BY: Victoria Ebere Eze- CEO

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The importance of women participation in politics in modern democracy is enormous. Women should participate and belong to political parties in order to promote their political rights, take decisions on issues that concern them as well as contribute to the democratic process. From the colonial era women have faced various challenges that range from denial …

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