Ongoing Projects
OUR ONGOING PROJECTS
1. ASPIRE Project: 2022 - Date | Rivers State, Nigeria | A sub-award from Institute of Human Virology (IHVN) under an award from Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
A total of 122,373 (77,614 females, 44,759 males) beneficiaries have received evidence based quality interventions as at September 30, 2019 and from these beneficiaries 84,821 are orphans and vulnerable children between 0-18, 37,552 are adult care givers and 18,905 are adolescent girls between 10 -18. WEWE has successfully enrolled 1192 (622 females, 570 males) HIV positive children and 2695 HIV positive caregivers that are adults comprises are 90% women.
River State Surge activities are categorised into four domains “healthy”, “schooled”, “stable” and “safe”, through direct service provision to the child, caregiver, community with emphasis on building household economic resilience: The type of activities listed under each domain are as follows:
Healthy:
HIV Counselling and Testing, Follow Up on HIV Positive OVC and Caregiver for Drug Initiation, Home Visit to Follow Up on Drug Adherence, Provision of Health And Nutrition Education, Use of Action Meal As Food Supplementation For Malnourished Children, Food And Nutrition Supplement Support, HIV Risk Assessment And Referral, Health Awareness Campaigns, Escort Services For Children And Their Caregivers That Test HIV Positive, Bi-Directional Referrals Between Health Facilities And Communities, Case Findings For HIV Positive Children, Finding HIV Positive Children of Key Population Such As Female Sex Workers, Providing Support For Adolescents At Risk Of HIV In High Burden Areas Across Rivers State, Providing Adherence Support And Linkage to Health Facilities and Treatment, and Following to Ensure Viral Load Suppression of OVC Beneficiaries to Align With USAID 95:95:95 Agenda.
Immunization Awareness/Sensitization, Personal Hygiene, Sexual And Reproductive Health, Environmental Sanitation, WASH, Malaria Prevention With Special Emphasis on Proper Use of Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN), Handling of Minor Illnesses, Adherence to Drug Regime for Children Living With HIV.
Schooled:
Educational Performance Assessment and School Visits, Enrollment and Re-enrolment of school age children back to school, School Block Granting, Transitioning adolescent from Primary to Secondary Education, Vocational, Life Skill Training.
Safe:
Facilitate the Issuance of Birth Certificate for Vulnerable Children, Gender base violence, Provision of Shelter and Care, and Child Protection (Prevention of Child Abuse).
Stable:
Home Visits, Psychosocial Support, Adolescent Girls and Young Women, Infant and Young Children feeding (IYCF), Caregivers’ Forum, Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) and Income Generating Activities.
2. Mobilizing Community-Led Solutions for Gender-Based Violence in Northern Nigeria (September 26, 2023 - July 30, 2024). Award from Women For Women International
Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organization (WEWE) received a subgrant of 15,000 USD (Fifteen Thousand Dollars only) from Women for Women International (WfWI) with support from Ford Foundation to implement a project in FCT-Abuja titled “Mobilizing Community-Led Solutions for Gender-Based Violence in Northern Nigeria”.
The purpose of the grant and deliverables is to support WEWE to:
- Organize and facilitate national-level engagement meetings with selected national-level CSOs working on GBV.
- Organize a forum where national-level CSOs and actors working across GBV prevention issues share learnings, best practices, experience, etc., including learning from the community-level action plans and stakeholders’ forums to reduce GBV in target communities. Through this national-level advocacy, CSOs will intensify their efforts to advocate for action in preventing GBV with key decision-makers.
The Specific Objectives of the project are:
- To forge a solid alliance with at least three national-level actors and track the increase in visibility to strengthen advocacy on GBV prevention through social media engagements, mainstream media, and high-level advocacy.
- To share learning from the project implementation and works of other actors in GBV prevention via either webinars or physical learning events.
- To develop an agenda with at least five actionable steps to prevent and address the root causes of GBV by national-level actors from the shared learning and aim at measuring progress in implementing these steps.
- To document learning and measure progress from actions taken by national-level actors on GBV prevention.
The specific Activities are:
- Support in organizing and facilitating the second CSO forum (roundtable) of national-level actors in Abuja on the learnings from the community level and encourage that these experiences are included in national advocacy on GBV prevention. Also, develop an agenda with at least five action steps to prevent GBV.
- Organize the meetings for the learnings from the community level from WfWI beneficiaries in Plateau State and encourage these experiences to be included in national advocacy efforts on GBV at the CSO forum in Abuja.
- Document and measure progress from actions the national-level actors took on GBV prevention.
- Present and discuss the lessons learnt throughout the project and share the experiences of the different communities in Plateau State over the project’s lifespan at the national learning events in Abuja.
3. IHVN-WEWE Gender Based Violence (GBV) Project: A sub-grant from CDC, PEPFAR: 2019 - Date | Rivers State, Nigeria.
WEWE received a letter of agreement (LOA) from the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) under an award from Centre for Disease Control (CDC). This project is implemented in 23 local Government Area (LGAs). Its objective is to Prevent and respond to gender-based violence, engage men and boys to address norms and behaviours around masculinity and sexuality, Increase gender-related policies and laws that increase legal protection and increase gender equitability access to income and productive resources, including education. Expected Results: Gender Based Violence Prevention for 2387 using the following strategies provision of minimum package of care for survivors of GBV, establishing a GBV response team make up of key stakeholder such as government, law enforcement, Federation of Female Lawyers (FIDA) and Nigeria police. 12,168 GBV survivors have been provided with GBV clinical and non-clinical services to different type of GBV survivors – the different types of services are: 45 facility GBV Focal Person trained on GBV reporting tool to provide clinical responses which are Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), Contraceptives, and referral for other non-clinical services and legal counsel.