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Priority pillars

Four pillars, and a climate strand through all of them

Every programme the movement runs has to sit under one of these. It keeps the work honest and it keeps the register accountable to something specific.

Pillar 01

Livelihood support

Work that pays, in the places women already are.

Rural enterprise, women-led SMEs, skills acquisition, agricultural value chains, the creative and digital economy, and cooperative trading groups. The aim is household income that holds.

  • Rural women empowerment
  • Women-led SMEs
  • Skills and enterprise incubation
  • Agricultural value chains
  • Creative and digital economy
  • Cooperative societies

Pillar 02

Financial inclusion

A bank account is a form of citizenship.

Connecting women to formal finance: literacy, microcredit, savings and credit schemes, mobile money, insurance, and readiness for the intervention funds that already exist but rarely reach them.

  • Financial literacy
  • Microfinance and cooperative funding
  • Savings and credit schemes
  • Digital and mobile banking
  • Entrepreneurship financing
  • Links to intervention funds

Pillar 03

Social empowerment

Numbers are only power once they are organised.

Leadership development, mentorship, girl-child education, civic awareness, and a serious push for women in governance, including women with disabilities and those the room usually forgets.

  • Leadership and mentorship
  • Girl-child education
  • Women in governance
  • Gender equality advocacy
  • Civic education
  • Grassroots mobilisation

Pillar 04

Social protection

Nobody should lose everything to one bad month.

Standing between women and the shocks: violence, widowhood, illness, displacement, discrimination. Legal aid, health access, psychosocial support and emergency relief.

  • Support for widows
  • Gender-based violence response
  • Maternal and reproductive health
  • Healthcare access
  • Legal aid and rights protection
  • Psychosocial support

Climate health, action and resilience

When the rain fails, women feel it first

Climate is not a separate programme. It runs through farming, water, health, household income and displacement, which means it runs through everything the movement does.

Climate health

Clean water and sanitation advocacy, environmental hygiene, community health education, renewable energy awareness, waste management and recycling.

Climate action

Tree planting and afforestation, climate-smart farming, renewable energy adoption, environmental education, and green enterprise for women.

Climate resilience

Adaptation training, disaster preparedness, food security programmes and community-based environmental protection.

The movement aligns its climate work with Nigeria's Climate Change Policy, the Sustainable Development Goals, African Union Agenda 2063, and the United Nations climate and sustainability frameworks.

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