International Women’s Day (IWD) is an occasion for celebrating women’s achievements worldwide – including strides in the political and social sectors, as well as continuing the call for gender equality. The day was first observed in the early 1900s and is now recognized each year on March 8, in a month filled with events to motivate and inspire women around the world. IWD is not affiliated with any one group, but brings together governments, women’s organizations, corporations and charities. The day is marked around the world with conferences, seminars, rallies, and networking events.
The Strategy and Innovation for Development (SI4DEV) Initiative is an NGO registered in Nigeria to empower community leaders working towards a country where every citizen has fair access to the resources needed to achieve their full potential. SI4DEV is an affiliate organization of The Spring Development Initiative – a US-based charitable organization. SI4DEV supports these community leaders to to improve the education, economic and health attainment of their communities.
For this year’s IWD, SI4DEV supported our Partners in Akwa Ibom Uyo embarked on a seminar to promote girls’ access to education, women’s access to equal opportunities in the workplace, and help discourage and eliminate gender-based violence in our community, state and country. This isn’t just about women. Men and boys also play an important role in empowering, mentoring, and supporting women as their mothers, sisters, wives, co-workers and fellow citizens working to develop our community.
Please read more about the Uyo IWD event and see pictures HERE.
If you have your own initiative for IWD or any other event, please let us know contact@si4dev.org so we can support you.
This initiative is an awesome one. I must say that women empowerment is key in every society.
For me as an individual I am more concern about the action I take towards a woman than my spoken words.
In as much as words are important, being proactive is key..
Thanks you for taking up this project.
Thank you Robert for your comment. I quite agree with you that action speak louder than words. One of the quick achievement of this meeting was the recruitment of volunteers change agents with about 75% of them being young girls. These leaders will create awareness of rights of women and girls in their community.
Nice work. I wish we could organize thesame project in my own locality due to high level of illetracy.
Thank you Muhammad, I believe your location will soon hold similar event.
Entrepreneurship skills and capacity training is coming shortly in ika local government area. By SI4DEV partner.
That’s great,looking forward for it.
Interesting. We cant want to see it happening!
Nice one. Next should be in Lagos!
yes o, Lagos location group has been quiet for too long..
When a woman is educated and empowered then the effect is transgenerational.
Yeah, we have passed empowerment of women rather we are investing in women!
Women need to be recognised more
This is a Laudable Achievement. A wake up call to other Locations. women need to be empowered to lead and champion change in every sector of the country.
Imagine a world 🌏 of men, where women are completely out of the picture?
Any positive event taking to improve, empower, and educate a woman or women is a TRANS-GENERATIONAL investment which surely remains irregretable in any given society.
I appreciate the effort and desire that more of such laudable events would in our respective location.
I am marvelled by this initiatives
Uyo location group takes the lead. Anticipate Ado Ekiti location griuo as well. Well done anyways. Keep it up.
I am proud to be a woman, good work Uyo.
happy mothers day
Thank you everyone for your comments, we are pressing for progress together!
That’s a very good move, kudos to you!
Nice work, needs to be improve next year,
Nice one.
Kudos to the Team in Uyo
Great work,bayelsa is next.
Nice one.!
A wonderful initiative, lets support women
Good job. We cant want to see it happening!
Support women today. Let’s move our nation forward.
Yes, women need our support
Empowering the women, you have empower the home.