Current Work
GADA has continued to pursue gender issues, women’s rights and empowerment through engagement with policy makers, and fostering alliances with government and non government change agents. Our current projects are in the areas of gender and Constitutional Reform, women’s political participation, gender and macroeconomics, and international trade. We are working in collaboration with the Global Fund for Women on the production of our newsletter, Women in Public Life.
Currently our work includes but is not limited to:
- Monitoring and influencing economic reforms in Nigeria from a gender perspective; examining the impacts of economic reforms on Nigerian women through participatory research;
- Working with influential actors and institutions to promote gender-responsive international trade policies
- Pushing for greater and more transformative women’s participation in politics and public life
- Working to engender laws and constitutional provisions to achieve gender equity in Nigerian society
- Tracking budgets at states and local levels to promote good and gender-responsive governance.
GADA ADMINISTRATION
GADA, Lagos office is still headed by Ada Agina-Ude who is now the Executive Director. She took over from co founder Nkoyo Toyo who we are happy to announce, has been appointed an Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The HBF-GADA project on constitutional reform will be handled by Okenwa Chidinma with effect from 1st March, 2009. GADA recently engaged a new Accountant, Mr. Emmanuel Onwukwe Offor to replace our former Accountant, Eunice Banigo. The Accountant handles all accounts related to GADA projects including the HBF project in Lagos. |
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