The Access Nigeria campaign is a PWD led, and targeted campaign that seeks to improve the participation of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Nigeria’s electoral processes. The campaign seeks to achieve this through evidence-based advocacy to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), National Assembly, and other public institutions. The other strategies for achieving the goal of this campaign include PWD targeted voter education and Get Out the Vote (GOTV) campaigns to mobilize PW
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My Initiatives
2023-03-18
Access Nigeria campaign
2023-03-17
The Participate Today campaign
The Participate Today campaign is a PWD focused campaign that seeks to increase the participation of PWDs in the broader political space in Nigeria through organizing, training and active engagements with political party structures. As a result of this project, more PWDs were able to vote at elections due to our voter education massaging in the popular television networks in Nigeria.
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2023-03-16
The Making it Work initiative
The Making it Work initiative is run by Humanity and Inclusion. IFA was selected among various organizations in Africa leading good practices in the area of ending violence against women. In 2014/2015, IFA conducted research on the effect of violence conflict on women with disabilities in Plateau state, Nigeria tagged “What Violence Means to Us; Women with Disabilities Speak”. For IFA, the initiative was aimed at ending GBV on women with disabilities in Plateau.
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2023-03-15
“The Music for Toilets”
To bring the world’s attention to the global WASH crisis, IFA organizes an annual concert tagged “The Music for Toilets” to commemorate the world toilet day marked on November 20th.The Music for Toilet is a WASH project that is implemented by IFA through crowd funding efforts. It is a unique blend of advocacy and music as a tool for social change. IFA came up with this initiative to create more awareness on the need for healthy sanitary spaces in our schools, and to raise funds to provide
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2023-03-14
Learning Together
The project is an IFA driven project where children with disabilities (CWDs) are sponsored in various schools to support their academic learning. These children are in special schools and non-special schools. The idea for us is growing to a time when more children with disabilities are enrolled in mainstream schools and foster integration among school children irrespective of their disability status.
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2023-03-13
The Amplifying voices project
The Amplifying voices project stems to build a network of youth advocates with disabilities, and improve their capacity to spotlight and innovatively address incidences ofgender/disability-based violenceagainst women and girls with disabilities. The project seeks to achieve this throughCohort Fellowships, Linking and learning, Media advocacy, and Community outreach. One of the achievements of the project is swift distress response to over 38 women with disabilities who are victims of violence, a
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First from the left, Grace Jerry discussing leveraging innovation and technology for gender equality in Africa at the When Women Win and British Council Nigeria roundtable to commemorate the #IWD23 continent to promote
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