About WOYODEV
Founded in 2008 by passionate young leaders, WOYODEV works at the grassroots to promote the all-around development of women and youth.
Mission.
To be a champion for women and youth: committed to identify with the average Nigerian woman and youth, promote, enlighten and enhance all-round comfort to bring smiles to their faces.
Mission.
To be a champion for women and youth: committed to identify with the average Nigerian woman and youth, promote, enlighten and enhance all-round comfort to bring smiles to their faces.
Vision.
Good Health, Zero level of Ignorance, Health-Friendly Decisions and a Hazard-Free Environment for all women, youth, and their communities.
Vision.
Good Health, Zero level of Ignorance, Health-Friendly Decisions and a Hazard-Free Environment for all women, youth, and their communities.
Goals.
To reach the less privileged with succour while engaging communities actively in finding solutions to their problems. We bring support directly to underserved areas and involve locals in solving issues.
Goals.
To reach the less privileged with succour while engaging communities actively in finding solutions to their problems. We bring support directly to underserved areas and involve locals in solving issues.
What We Do
To provide for women and youth a voice, identify with their hopes and aspirations in view to develop and promote their relevance and sense of belonging in the development and stability of the communities, environment and the nation.
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Objectives |
• Identify and source ways to alleviate/solve women’s and youth problems, such as drug abuse and addiction. • Enhancing accessibility to basic hygiene health education by providing information, education, and safeguards against preventable and communicable diseases such as STDs, HIV/AIDS, TB, and CANCER. • To provide access to information while advocating and raising awareness on hygiene and sanitation and overall healthy living standards. • To develop and distribute educational resources on hygiene and sanitation. • To introduce new and sustainable methods of hygiene and sanitation. • To train and provide necessary equipment for people in communities for better hygiene, sanitation, and healthy living. |
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Target |
• Persons Living with HIV/AIDS • Female Adolescents • Women, Youths, Children • At Risk Communities |
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Values |
• Love and friendly personalities • Affectionate • Hard work • Commitment to work |
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Thematic Areas |
• Health • Environment (as it relates to sanitation) |
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Programming Areas |
• HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, Cholera, STDS, Cancer • Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) • Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights • Drug Abuse and Misuse |
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Strategies |
• Peer education • Trainings • Sensitization/ workshops/ seminars and conferences • Information dissemination via IEC Materials (Handbills, Posters, Banners) • Supports for OVCs, PLWHA, Widows |
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Achievements |
• Training of 200 female adolescents on Basic Hygiene, HIV/AIDS, and STDs. • Training on Freeing the Youth from the Scourge of HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse. • Capacity Building on HIV Prevention and Care and Support for PLWHA. • Hand washing Exercise in 6 LGAs in Kwara State. • Promoting Behavioural Change on TB Care. • Facilitated in VCT/BCC for 114 University of Ilorin youths. • Implemented Community TB Care project (CTBC). • Implemented Community System Strengthening project to end HIV/AIDs, TB, and Malaria. |
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Current/Upcoming Projects |
• Promoting Behavioral Change on Community TB Care (CTBC). • Community System Strengthening to Scale up Utilization of Primary Health Care Centres in the Treatment of AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS and MALARIA (ATM). • Hand-washing Exercise in partnership with RUWASSA. • Reach the Kids Before Drugs do. |
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Objectives |
• Encourage and organize programmes and projects that create awareness among women and youths of the dangers of population and environmental degradation. • To introduce new and sustainable methods of hygiene and sanitation in our environment. • To ensure Disaster Risk Reduction while ensuring conflict management and a safe environment for women, youth, and children. |
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Target |
• At Risk Communities • Sectoral Leaders (Youth leaders, community leaders) • Youths and Women |
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Values |
• Peaceful co-existence • Team building • Realistic |
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Thematic Areas |
• Environment • Humanitarian Response & Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Programming Areas |
• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) • Climate change • Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Strategies |
• Advocacy • Community mobilization • Campaigns • Innovative Researches • Policy engagement |
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Achievements |
• Organized a Rally on Green Economy; Does it include you? in commemoration of World Environment Day, 2012. • Facilitating CSOs forum on Flood and disaster risk reduction and mitigation with support from NEMA. • Implemented the Views from Frontline Project (VFL) with support from Global Network on Disaster Risk Reduction (GNDR). |
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Current/Upcoming Projects |
• Views From Frontline Project, GNDR/ European Union 2019-2022. |
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Objectives |
• Organizing vocational training, seminars, symposiums, workshops, conferences, and information technology for women and youth. • Promotion and source for funds for programmes that can and will empower both the youth and women with disabilities. • Organize programmes that will encourage women and youths to have a deep sense of responsibility, civility and discipline, self-reliance, self-sacrifices, hard work, and creativity. • Promote our cultural heritage and encourage the utilization of the good aspects of our cultural values. • Promote and create social security programmes that will provide financial and/or material assistance to trained but unemployed women and youth so that they can be empowered. • Source for aid and assistance for the less privileged, handicapped, orphans, and widows. • To fund and support worthwhile programmes targeted at improving the quality of life of women, youth, and children. |
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Target |
• Female Adolescents • Persons Living with Disabilities • Orphans and Vulnerable Children • Women • Youths • Children |
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Values |
• Commitment to work • Proper time management • Team building • Hard work |
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Thematic Areas |
• Education • Social and Economic Justice |
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Programming Areas |
• Gender Development • Girl Child Education • Child Rights and OVCs support program • Youth and Women focus on Empowerment and Development |
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Strategies |
• Trainings • Capacity building • Sensitization/ workshops/ seminars and conferences • Supports for OVCs, Widows |
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Achievements |
• Training of the School Based Management Committee with support from SUBEB. |
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Current/Upcoming Projects |
• Orphan and vulnerable children support – Educational and Nutritional. |
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Objectives |
• Carry out studies of various problems confronting women and youth and find ways of alleviating them (e.g., sexual harassment and exploitation, cultism, teenage pregnancy). • Promotion and enlightenment on the elimination of harmful traditional practices that affect females generally, such as early marriage, circumcision. • Organizing programmes aimed at improving and promoting the ending of gender-based discrimination and the rights/dignity of women and female youth. • Providing information and education on child/human trafficking and forced labour. |
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Target |
• Female Adolescents • Persons Living with Disabilities • Orphans and Vulnerable Children • Women • Youths |
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Values |
• Fairness • Justice and development • Respect and obedience |
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Thematic Areas |
• Rights • Social and Economic Justice |
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Programming Areas |
• Gender Development • Human Rights Initiatives • Child Rights and OVCs support program • Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights |
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Strategies |
• Advocacy • Activism • Campaigns • Networking |
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Achievements |
• Implemented a project on End to Female Genital Mutilation (End FGM) with funding support from The Girl Generation, UK. |
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Current/Upcoming Projects |
• End Child Bride project with support from Mundo Cooperante, Spain. |
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Objectives |
• To provide for women and youth a voice, identify with their hopes and aspirations in view to develop and promote their relevance and sense of belonging in the development and stability of the communities. • Networking, activism and linkages with local and international donors’ agencies. • To enhance women and youth involvement and inclusion in decision-making processes, civic rights, peace-building, and sustainable development. |
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Target |
• Sectoral Leaders (Youth leaders, community leaders) • Women • Youths |
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Values |
• Networking • Peaceful co-existence • Justice and development |
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Thematic Areas |
• Governance and Democracy |
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Programming Areas |
• Peace Building and Conflict Resolution |
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Strategies |
• Advocacy • Community mobilization • Activism • Policy engagement • Networking |
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Achievements |
• Facilitated a forum on Women Development and Effective Women and Youth Involvement in Decision making processes. • Organised a discussion Forum on Youth in Decision making processes (Health and HIV/AIDS) for CrowdOut AIDs. |
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Current/Upcoming Projects |
• Youth Against being used as Political Machinery. |
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Partners and Affiliations
Civil Society Initiative against Illicit& Addictive Drug (CSIAIAD)
Association of NGOS working on Orphan and Vulnerable Children (AONN)
Nigeria Youth Climate Change Coalition (NYCCC)
Nigeria Youth Network on HIV/AIDS (NYNETHA)
Civil Society for Consultative Network on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CISCHAN)
Association of Civil Society Organization on Malaria in Nigeria (ACOMIN)
National Alliance against Hunger & Malnutrition (NAAHM)
Network on Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (NWASH)
National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN)
Nigeria Youth Habitat Network (NYHN)
SUSAN, FAN, ANEW
Stop TB Partnership.
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, WSSCC, Geneva, Switzerland.
World Youth Movement for Democracy (WYMD)
Kwara State Ministry of Youth and Sports Development
Young Feminism Wire (AWID)
Kwara State Ministry of Women Affairs
Kwara State Ministry of Environment and Forestry
Kwara State Action Committee on AIDS, (KWASACA)
Hope Worldwide
LGAs
Development Partners (Local and International)
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency- RUWASSA
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