Since its registration as a non-governmental organization in 2012, the Kwara Marketer’s Association faced significant challenges in securing stable funding necessary for growth and impactful project interventions. Despite sharing innovative ideas with potential supporters, promises were often unfulfilled, hindering the organization’s ability to make a substantial impact. However, in 2019, a transformative opportunity arose with...
Before the advent of the WVL-N Project, the Community Need Care Development Initiative (CONCED) had been actively participating in election monitoring and had comprehensive data on election results. The data from the 2019 election revealed that men dominated all elected seats in Kwara State. In that election, 35 seats were contested, and all were won...
Like millions of communities with lower socio-economic backgrounds in Kwara State, women in Malete, Shao, and Egbejila often lack the skills necessary for self-empowerment. This deficiency leads to low self-esteem, depression, and emotional imbalances among many women in these areas. Mrs. Olalowo, a widow living in a broken shelter in Shao Community, Moro Local Government...
It is no longer news that women are not expected or encouraged to have financial independence amidst mobility constraints that make it difficult to engage with financial institutions. In Ilorin South, Isin, Irepodun, and Oyun Local Government Area, Women who are marginalized in the society, financially dependent for their basic needs, and mostly subjected...
In some communities, based on historical marginalisation of women in economic independence, women’s control over resources are limited. This sometimes transcends into national spaces such as financial institutions that have stringent conditionalities that hinders/constraints women’s capability to access financial credits. In Ilorin South, Isin, Irepodun, and Oyun Local Government Area, women who hitherto had limited...
Olive Community Development Initiative (OCDI) is one of the local women right organizations (LWROs) implementing interventions under the Women Voice and Leadership (WVL) Project, funded by Global Affairs Canada through ActionAid Nigeria. Our interventions has been focused increasing the enjoyment of Human’s Right by women & girls in Kwara state and we have been achieving...