A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Center for Girls Education (CGE) has called for increased awareness of Gender Based Violence (GBV) by Pair Group Educators in Sokoto State.
Ubaida Abdulnasir, the team lead of the Centre made the call during a review meeting in the state on Friday.
The leader revealed that CGE, with support from the Spotlight Initiative Project, is set to commence a Ripple Project where 40 Pair Group Educators would be tasked with community surveillance and education across the state, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Abdunasil said the groups were engaged in educating girls and women on way to handle GBV cases, supporting the survivors and eradicating the violence against the female gender.
She solicited more efforts in exposing the occurrence of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), Female Gentile Mutilation (FGM), and Child Marriage (CM), among other detrimental practices in the state.
”The educators were trained on ways to assist girls in protecting themselves against GBV and promoting engagements on economic skills.
”They underwent training on proper data collection and keeping techniques, information sharing among their pairs and strategy methods to facilitate quality work.
”We designed focus areas in order to prepare the Peer Group Educators to be more active in pursuing the goals in their communities.
”Topics comprised techniques on information sharing and advocacy, self-esteem, goal setting and decision-making, values clarification, assertiveness and public speaking among others," Abdulnasir said.
The event included exercises including a rundown of activities, how to improve modalities of data collection, questions and answers on ways of approaches, and alleviation steps.
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