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The WFI Aged Forum was established in 2010 with the purpose of understanding the unique needs and desires of the elderly and offering long-term support, comfort, and increasing active participation in the cultural and political life of their communities. The Women Friendly Initiative (WFI) secretariat in Kuje Area Council is where members of this forum […]

The Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health (YPE4AH) is a five-year USAID-funded initiative (2020–2025) implemented in Lagos and Kano States by a consortium of five partners: Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI) (Prime), Women Friendly Initiative (WFI), Youth Development & Empowerment Initiative (YEDI), Yellow Brick Road (YBr), and Grassroot Soccer Inc. (GRS).The project aims to improve

This is a two-year ongoing research project funded by the Grand Challenges Canada to investigate the perceptions and experiences of delivering comprehensive maternal health services including family planning, therapeutic post abortion care services in three (Mpape, Kubwa and Nyanya) urban slums of FCT, through community-based Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), non – traditional health

This is a one (1) year ongoing Project with funding support from British Council – Agents for Citizens Transformation. It is committed to building educational institutions’ capacity to respond to GBV and substance abuse concerns in innovative and sustainable ways, employing an integrated preventive and response approach. The following accomplishments have been documented since the

WFI, with funding from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has implemented a 4-year project aimed at improving access to comprehensive sexual reproductive health information and services in Benue, Kwara and Nasarawa States of Nigeria. This project has successfully trained 48 health care providers on Family Planning (FP) information and service, as well as 45 youth counsellors in non-prescriptive FP

This 12-month project, funded by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and implemented by Women Friendly Initiative (WFI) and Novel Association for Youth Advocacy (NAYA), aimed to strengthen advocacy for the implementation of Nigeria’s National AYFHS Guidelines within Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities. WFI built NAYA members’ technical capacity in effective advocacy, resource mobilization, and accountability

With support from Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO), WFI implemented a three-year cancer control campaign across communities in Kuje Area Council, FCT, beginning in December 2016.The project aimed to reduce cancer-related deaths by promoting early detection through widespread sensitization, social mobilization, free screenings, and referral services, targeting breast, cervical, prostate cancers, and childhood tumors. Key

Funded by the US Ambassador’s Small Grant, this six-month project by WFI focused on improving literacy among HIV-positive orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Shadadi, Buzunkure, and Godoji communities in Kuje Area Council, FCT.The project supported children at risk of dropping out due to financial hardships by covering school fees, levies, and providing essential school

The DPTC Project, funded by the European Union and implemented by UNODC, was sub-implemented by WFI over 16 months (extended due to COVID-19). The project focused on building the capacity of state and non-state actors across FCT (Kuje and Kwali) and Nasarawa State (Keana, Nasarawa, and Nasarawa Egon) on drug prevention, treatment, and care.WFI engaged