International Women’s Day 2023 theme “DigitALL: Innovation and Technology for gender equality”. This highlights the role of innovation in promoting gender equality and equity. It is also a call to deploy efforts to support country-driven innovations and approaches to...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar represented by Ndodeye Bassey-Obongha (Head of Programs) participated at the just concluded Spotlight High-level Multi-Stakeholder Continental Summit on eliminating violence against women and girls. The activity was part of side line events of the...
To support the mainstreaming of second Chance Education learner into informal education, GPI held a meeting to validate the mainstreaming guidelines which was developed by GPI to facilitate the process of transitioning of learners from non formal education to...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Center as part of the Spotlight Initiative Project activities for phase two, held a two-day Business Development and Financial Literacy training for over 500 beneficiaries in Ebonyi State. Participants were drewn from 7 communities...
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is observed every year on the 6th of February. The theme for year 2023 is ‘Partnership with men and boys to transform social and gender norms to end FGM’ Partnering...
As part of strategic advocacy efforts targeted at improving the SRHR of young women in Cross River State, the state Community Of Action (COA) established under the WeLead project facilitated by Girl’s Power Initiative, embarked on several Advocacy visits...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) calabar center on 19th January 2023 held a one day Meeting to Disseminate the outcome of a situation analysis on Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of young women as well as a capacity assessment...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) calabar center held a 2-day Capacity building training on sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and inclusive SRHR laws and policies in Cross River State on 17th & 18th of January 2023 as part of...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) is a Nigerian not-for-profit, Non-Governmental Organization founded in1993 and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 1997. GPI currently has physical offices in 4 states in the South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria (Akwa Ibom, Cross...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar joins to celebrate the 2022 United Nations International Day for Rural Women organised by Women wing of CAN (WOWICON) with support from UNWOMEN with the theme; Rural Women Cultivating Good Food For All. The...
Cross River Child Protection Network (CPN) Visits GPI Calabar Centre. The new leadership of the Child Protection Network (CPN) paid an advocacy visit to GPI Calabar on the 13th of October 2022. The purpose of the visit was to:...
International Day of the Girl 2022 “Our time is now—our rights, our future” Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria joins the rest of the World to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl (IDG). The...
Training of Right Holders (RH) groups As part of the activities under the WeLead Project, a 2-day training was held at GPI conference hall from the 29th to 30th of August for selected young women Right Holders (RH)...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria Calabar Centre held a Monitoring, Coaching and Peer Learning Session with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as part of activities for the Strengthening Civil Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project. The activity which held...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar organised a one day Community Dialogue with stakeholders on Values, Social Norms and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights of Right Holders (RHs). This is part of activities for the WeLead Project in Cross...
International Youth Day 2022 Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre celebrates the 2022 International Youth Day. Each year a theme is chosen to draw attention to a particular issue for youth such as the high unemployment rate, poor working...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre organised a 2-Day training of facilitators for the Second Chance Education (SCE) component of the EU/UN spotlight initiative project with support from UNWomen. This is part of project activities targeted at providing...
World Day against Trafficking in Persons 2022 THEME: Use and abuse of technology. The World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is observed on July 30 to raise awareness about the ordeal of human trafficking victims and the ways to...
The UNWomen stakeholders consultation on the development of her strategic plan for Nigeria was a meeting to engage government MDAs, CSOs, Media and community representatives on 5 major areas of discussions which are: I. Normative policy and institutional frameworks...
2-day capacity building training for selected Healthcare Service Providers. Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre held a 2-day capacity building training for selected Healthcare Service Providers across the 18 L.G.A.s in Cross River State on provisions of inclusive SRHR...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar held a Shared Learning Event (SLE) for community based organisations (CBOs) and relevant Stakeholders on the 7th of April in Cross River State, and 14th of April in Akwa Ibom State. The objectives Included:...
Mapping of Mass Literacy Centres For Spotlight Initiative Project. As part of activities for the second phase of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative project implemented by GPI Calabar with support from UNWomen, a mapping of Mass Literacy centres was...
enrollment of beneficiaries for the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Project. GPI Calabar Centre started the enrollment of beneficiaries for the second phase of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Project from the 5th of July 2022 as part of the initial activities....
EU/UN Spotlight Initiative Project – Second Chance Education (SCE), Vocational Skills Training for Women and Girls. Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) calabar center is implementing the second phase of the EU/UN Spotlight Initiative Project in Cross River State. The Spotlight...
2022 Social Work/Community Intervention. As part of the criteria for GPI safe space beneficiaries to graduate from the programme, opportunity is given to them to identify certain socio-economic and other issues affecting other young people in their environment/community and...
As part of the WeLead project activities aimed at strengthening CSOs movements and networks to advocate for improved access to sexual and reproductive health and rights information and service for rights holders, Girls’Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre paid advocacy...
About the WeLead Project. Girls Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar center, with support from HIVOS is implementing the WeLead Project in Cross River State. WeLead is a new, inspiring and innovative program that aims to improve the sexual and reproductive...
Day of the African Child (DAC) 2022. The international Day of the African Child commemorates the 16 June 1976 student uprising in Soweto, South Africa where demonstration was led by African students who were against apartheid-inspired education. The...
World Day Against Child Labour 2022 June 12 is marked as the World Day Against Child Labour as more than 150 million children and adolescents working in areas that are harmful to their physical, mental, social or educational...
Menstrual Hygiene Day 2022 Making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030 Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) or menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) refers to access to menstrual hygiene products to absorb or collect the flow of blood during...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre is currently holding a 4-day intensive training on documentation, data use, monitoring and evaluation for selected Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States working with vulnerable groups. The training...
International Women’s Day 2022 Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria celebrates the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2022. The IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre under the Sharing Canadian Expertise For Inclusive Development And Gender Equity (SHARE) project with support from CUSO International in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, held a Public Education forum and dissemination of...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre, Basic Rights Counsel (BRCI) Initiative and other NGOs/CSOs are embarking on public awareness after the passage of the Cross River State Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) law 2021 and the Cross River State Disability...
As part of activities under the USAID funded Strengthening Civil Advocacy and Local Engagements (SCALE) project, Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre is held a 2-day Bylaws and Positive Action Development Workshop for Community,traditional and religious leaders in Cross...
GPI Calabar is held a 4-day sensitization training on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV), Child Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) and related issues for Community and Religious Leaders for selected communities in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States....
As part of activities for the USAID funded Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagements (Scale) project, GPI is held a 5-day intensive training on case management, trauma consciousness and resilience for civil society organisations in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre has resumed her Safe Space sessions in both Calabar and Akpabuyo centres. The first day of the session was held on Sunday 16th January at their respective centres, and the facilitators gave the...
Dear Partners, we would like to appreciate all the amazing work you have done this year. We hope that you are able to rest and reset over the holidays. We are going to be away from today, we will...
As part of activities for the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence, a Public Walk was held in support of the passage of Cross River State (CRS) Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) and Disability Rights bills was...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) is holding a 3-day training on understanding Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) and Child Early and Forced Marriage (CEFM) for Local Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State from today...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria is marking the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence from 25 November to 10 December 2021. 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of the Global 16 Days Campaign initiated in 1991 by Center for...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) is the Strengthening Civil Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. The project activity starts with 2-day Design Lab and content development meeting with strategic stakeholders in Cross River...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) organized a three days training on personal skill development for young women between the ages of 18-25 years with support from Lafarge Holcim for host communities in Cross River State from 28th-30th September 2021...
World Contraception Day Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria, Calabar Centre celebrates World Contraception Day. World Contraception Day is an annual global campaign to improve awareness about contraception observed on 26th September every year. This campaign aims to raise awareness...
World Sexual Health Day (WSHD) is on Saturday 4th September and is an annual event organized by the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS) designed to promote education, awareness, and best practices...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria is a non-governmental and not-for-profit organization which runs a 3-year comprehensive training on Adolescent Sexuality Reproductive Health and Right, Leadership and...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria, Calabar centre in Collaboration with Cross River State Ministry of Education and support from UNESCO is organised a 3-day training of teachers and volunteers on Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) delivery. The training...
As part of activities for the Joint EU/UN Spotlight Initiative Project implemented by Girls’ Power Initiative, Focus Group Discussions (F.G.D.s) were conducted in selected Communities in Calabar South and Municipality where Second Chance Education (S.C.E.) was held for 3...
Communique Issued at the end of the Media Roundtable to Mark 16 Days of Activism on Ending Violence against Women and Girls and Harmful Practice (VAWG/HG), Held at Girl’s Power Initiative Conference Hall, Calabar, on Wednesday 25th November 2020.
As part of the ongoing joint EU/UN Spotlight Initiative project, Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria in collaboration with the CRS Ministry of Women Affairs and the Network to Curb Sexual Abuse of Girls and Women (NETCUSA) organized a Media...
THEME “ORANGE THE WORLD: FUND, RESPOND, PREVENT, COLLECT!
Update on Spotlight Initiative Project. Some beneficiaries of the Spotlight project in Edim Otop Community started Fashion design and Baking training at GPI center, while other centers are preparing to join them. #SpotlightEndViolence #SpotlightNG #UNwomenNG #gpicalabar
GPI Calabar held a meeting with trainers in different skills (fashion design, shoemaking, hair dressing, Computer and graphics, bag making, baking, makeup, etc) from the 10 benefiting communities of Spotlight Initiative Project. The aim of the meeting was to...
Visitation By The EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Project Joint Monitoring Team The Joint monitoring team for the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative Project visited Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar no the 16th of September to access the work we have been doing....
TRAINING OF BENEFICIARIES FROM LAFARGE HOST COMMUNITIES ON PERSONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. Girls’ Power Initiative organized training on personal skills and entrepreneurship development for the 2020 batch of vocational skills beneficiaries from Lafarge host communities. The training which held at...
MEETING FOR VOCATIONAL SKILLS BENEFICIARIES FROM LAFARGE HOST COMMUNITIES Girls’ Power Initiative held a meeting with vocational skills beneficiaries from Lafarge host communities on the 27th August 2020.The aim of the meeting was to evaluate the performance and challenges...
Second Chance Education (SCE) and Vocational Skills The EU/UN Spotlight Initiative project activities implemented by Girls’ Power Initiative Calabar – Second Chance Education (SCE) and vocational skills are ongoing in 10 communities in Ebonyi (Ezza south and Abakaliki L.G.A.s)...
MEETING FOR VOCATIONAL SKILLS BENEFICIARIES Girls’ Power Initiative held a meeting with vocational skills beneficiaries from Lafarge host communities on the 27th August 2020. The aim of the meeting was to evaluate the performance and challenges in their various...
The theme of International Youth Day 2020, “Youth Engagement for Global Action” seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young people at the local, national and global levels is enriching national and multilateral institutions and processes, as well...
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons THEME: Working on the front lines to end human trafficking Trafficking in persons (Sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery…) is a serious crime and a grave violation of human rights. Every year, thousands of...
Business Development Training (BDT) Girls’ Power Initiative resumes activities for the EU/UN Spotlight Initiative Project as the COVID-19 lock down has been eased in Cross River State, with strict compliance to the COVID-19 safety measures. Another batch of Business...
Girls’ Power Initiative Resumes Business Development Training. Throw back at last week’s activity: Girls’ Power Initiative resumed Business Development Training for the beneficiaries of the EU/UN Spotlight Initiative Project as the COVID-19 lock down has been eased in Cross...
On 16 June 1976 In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets to protest about the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds...
About Menstrual Hygiene Day Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is a global advocacy platform that brings together the voices and actions of non-profits, government agencies, individuals, the private sector and the media to promote good menstrual hygiene management (MHM)...
I am feeling really anxious about COVID-19 and its impact on my life. What should I do? In situations like a pandemic it is very normal to feel anxious and powerless, and that is okay. Here are a few...
Can adolescents catch COVID-19? Yes. All age groups can catch COVID-19. While we are still learning about how COVID-19 affects people, older persons (e.g. persons over 60 years) and persons with pre-existing medical conditions, like high blood pressure, heart...
How to stay active in and around the home Try and reduce long periods of time spent sitting, whether for work, studying, watching TV, reading, or using social media or playing games using screens. Reduce sitting for long periods...
How to be active during COVID-19 You can engage in physical activities during COVID-19 to stay active. Physical activity includes all forms of active recreation, sports participation, cycling and walking, as well as activities you do at work and...
In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic The World Health organization, WHO has advised that to further stop the spread of covid -19 we must all follow some basic steps: – Wash your hands frequently and thoroughly clean your...
In 2012, the UN General Assembly designated February 6th as the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, with the aim to amplify and direct the efforts on the elimination of this practice. In the light of...
COMMUNITY ADVOCACY VISIT FOR THE EU/UN SPOTLIGHT INITIATIVE PROJECT. Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar as part of the EU/UN Spotlight Initiative project held a community advocacy visit to one of the target communities for the Spotlight Initiative Project in...
On Monday 20th January, Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar conducted a capacity strengthening/Training for Project staff on Program Management and execution in Cross River State for the implementation of the Spotlight Initiative project. The training which held at the...
GPI Calabar held the first Project Execution Team (PET) meeting for the year 2020. This meeting holds weekly and it’s a forum where the organization’s projects and activities are discussed, reports and lessons learnt are shared among team members...
The year 2020 started with a training on Tuesday, January 14 on how Safe Space Lesson facilitators can use the VACOK checklist to evaluate the awareness level of participants during sessions. The training which held at GPI Calabar secretariat...
GPI Calabar joins other Organizations to mark the Human Rights Day which is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): a milestone...
2019 SAFE SPACE CLOSING DAY On Sunday 8th of December, GPI Calabar organized an event to mark the end of Safe Space lessons for the year 2019. The event featured comedy from the girls, presentation of Safety, Financial management,...
GPI in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Cross River Ministry of Women Affairs, other Civil Society Organizations and groups joined together to rally against Gender-Based violence as part of activities to mark the 16...
Every year for the past 11 years, the Cross River Network to Curb Sexual Abuse (NETCUSA) which is housed by GPI Calabar has been organizing public education forums aim at sensitizing the general public and survivors of violence on...
On the 25th of November, members of Cross River Network to Curb Sexual Abuse on Women and Girls (NETCUSA) in collaboration with the University of Calabar Association for AIDS and Reproductive Health Programes (UCAARHP) organized a campus rally to...
GPI Calabar organized a Learning Exchange on System strengthening to End Gender-Based Violence in Cross River State form the 20th to 22nd of November, 2019. Theme: Three days Capacity Building for the Judiciary Officers, Media Personnel, Law Enforcement Officers,...
Today, October 11, is the International Day of the Girl Child. The 2019 Theme is *GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable* Known as the Day of Girls, for short, the International Day of the Girl Child is a day that’s observed...
Register your ward/daughters for FREE Safe Space Lessons at GPI from now until December 20th, 2019. Girls will be empowered with knowledge on sexual and reproductive health and rights, life management and leadership skills so that she can become...
Girls’ Power Initiative was very pleased to celebrate her 25th Anniversary and the 23rd Graduation/Public Education Ceremony on September 7, 2019! We celebrated graduates from the three-year Safe Space Program at GPI in Calabar as well as from the fish farming, fashion design and...
Today, GPI Calabar Staff marks the birthday of our co-founder Prof. Bene Madunagu by paying her a surprise visit. With great joy, all Staff of GPI, Volunteers, GPI Alumni Association, our Center girls and boys, Skills and Media Academy...
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights. The socialist movement and communist countries predominantly celebrated the day until the United Nations adopted it in...
In February 2019, the ICT Officer and the IT Advisor of GPI conducted a training for Staff on how to use the Intranet. This facility was set up in 2018 to handle file storage and file sharing through a...
The World NGO Day is an internationally observed day chosen to celebrate NGOs/CSOs for the community services they render. The aim the World NGO Day celebration in Cross River State was to bring together all CSOs/NGOs in the state...
GPI Calabar is strengthening community partners to end Violence against girls and women. #CPGGE #GBV #GPI #Girlchild #Community
World Population Day is an annual event to increase people’s awareness on various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights. July 11 is set aside every year to raise...
GPI Social Work is a yearly activity where a community with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) issues like harmful traditional practices, unsafe abortion, teenage pregnancy, low productivity of females, discriminating practices against widows, etc will be identified,...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria organizes Advocacy Strategy Development Workshop from 19th to 21st June, 2018 at GPI Conference Hall for over 30 young women in Cross River State. The first day of the workshop was graced by the...
On this 6th of February, 2018, Girls Power Initiative Calabar Centre adds its voice to the worldwide chorus of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. The World Health Organisation defines FGM as comprising all procedures involving the partial or...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria Calabar Centre is calling on all her graduates who are currently not engaged to volunteer their services with the organization. If you are interested, submit your application on or before 10th February 2018 to...
GPI Calabar Open Day for safe space education held on the 21st of January 2018 at GPI conference hall for all GPI girls from all the groups and their facilitators. The safe space education is the weekly lessons for ...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar in collaboration with 14 other NGOs, CBOs’ and networks took the streets by storm to campaign against Gender – Based Violence in Education which is in line with the ongoing 2018 16 Days of...
UNAIDS launches 2017 World AIDS Day campaign—My Health, My Right GENEVA, 6 November 2017—In the lead-up to World AIDS Day on 1 December, UNAIDS has launched this year’s World AIDS Day campaign. The campaign, My Health, My Right, focuses...
What is 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence? Women from Lord House Settlement community March in the opening parade for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign...
NETWORK TO CURB SEXUAL ABUSE OF GIRLS AND WOMEN (NETCUSA) holds her bi-monthly meeting at Girls’ Power Initiative Nigeria, Calabar centre conference hall on the 26th October, 2017. Members in attendance were from the following Ministries, Law Enforcement agencies,...
Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) Calabar Centre organized the Community Partnership Group on Girls Empowerment (CPGGE) annual workshop on Wednesday 25th October 2017 at GPI Calabar conference hall. Community Partnership Group on Girls’ Empowerment (CPGGE) workshop was an outcome of...
Strengthen the Community Partnership Group on Girls Empowerment (CPGGE) Consultative forum was held in 4 target communities from October 13 – 17 2017 with the objectives of: Strengthening the community partnership group on girls empowerment identifying the socio-economic and developmental...
Every day girls around the world are fighting for their freedom. This International Day of the Girl – join them and raise your voice:
Let’s join the walk against sexual violence on the day of the girl child come Wednesday 11th of October 2017. On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare October 11 as the International Day...
The 2017 Batch B media Academy training has began today at the GPI Calabar Centre with an orientation exercise for out-of-school young females between the ages of 18-25 years. In an opening remark, the Coordinator GPI Calabar centre, Comfort...
The Youth Advocacy Group (YAG) is a team of 10 volunteers set-up by Education as a Vaccine (EVA) in collaboration with Girl’s Power Initiative (GPI) Nigeria, Calabar centre in 2017 with the objective of building leadership and advocacy skills...
Abstract This study examined the level of impact of Sexuality, Family Life and HIV&AIDS Education (SFLHE) curriculum implementation in public secondary schools in Cross River State. This assessment was done with emphasis on impact on knowledge, attitudes and practices...
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