GUIDING DOCUMENTS

Several International and Local Documents guide the work of the Courageous Girls Women and Children Initiative-CGWCI.

 

The Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP) 2015 which came into being in Nigeria under the administrator of President GoodLuck Jonathan

 

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

 

In September 2015, governments united behind an ambitious agenda that features 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets that aim to end poverty, combat inequalities and promote prosperity while protecting the environment by 2030. They were preceded by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000 to 2015.

 

Child Rights Act 2003 expands the human rights bestowed to citizens in Nigeria’s 1999 constitution to children.

 

CGWCI strategic plan, 2022–2025 outlines our organization ‘s strategic direction, objectives and approaches to support efforts to achieve gender equality, empower all women and girls, SGBV prevention and response, energize our primary health care centers with clean and affordable solar energy to enable survivors of SGBV easy access to quality medical services, etc