As part of my baseline research to design effective communication approaches that could enhance antenatal care among rural women in Nasarawa State, I engaged with women across three rural communities: Uke, Gbagalape, and Gidan Sakara. My field engagements revealed that participatory communication—where communities are not just informed but actively involved—has played a critical role in […]
During our recent participatory communication engagements in Lapai, Paikoro, Wushishi (Niger State) and Otukpo, Gboko, Oshongo (Benue State), spanning six rural communities in North-Central Nigeria, one message came through loud and clear: Rural women farmers prefer female agricultural extension workers. They shared that: Female extension workers can easily enter their homes, sit with them, and
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Covenant Journal of Communication: VOL. 11 NO. 2, DECEMBER 2024 Authhor: Audu Liberty Oseni & Omale Gloria Eneh Abstract State and non-state actors continue to face challenges in effectively communicating family planning in a way that will enhance understanding, rather than its acceptance, making good practices difficult among men and women. The study objective was
Although there has been a huge conversation and investments made in climate change at the global, national, and local levels, rural women in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, do not believe climate change is real and consider it as fake. For many of them, climate change discussion is nothing but connivance with the
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The poor farmers that spoke to MAWA-Foundation at the FO1 area of Kubwa in Bwari Area Council of FCT, in different narratives, gave accounts of how their lands located around the Military Pension Board along Daughters of Charity Hospital were taking over without any form of compensation. They gave accounts of how they lost ownership
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Rural women in Nigeria are tackling poverty through the processing of Garri, a creamy-white or yellow granular flour made from fermented, gelatinized fresh cassava tubers. A popular staple food that is eaten in many homes in Nigerian and West Africa. The rural women are making money through the processing of Garir, with some of them
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Residents of Kanzo community in Kuje Area Council of the Nigerian capital city are dying over none availability of a hospital. They say pregnant women and children are the greatest casualties with maternal and infant mortality on the rise. A visit to the community shows it has no hospital despite having existed for decades. The
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One of the areas inequality affects women and makes them economically disadvantaged is the mining sector. And, this appears to be a long-time practice that is not likely to go away until huge investments in advocacy and engagements are made. In this report by Mr. Liberty Oseni, the Coordinator of MAWA -Foundation focusing on how
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As the world continues to recount the impact of COVID-19, there is little attention being paid specifically to how the virus has exposed women’s economic inequality, making them bear the economic burden of the pandemic, which has contributed hugely to gender inequality and pushed women into extreme poverty. In interviews conducted by MAWA Foundation across communities,
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Women in Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT-Abuja) have continued to lament how inequality placed on them by society is pushing them to poverty and contributing to what they described as a man-made predicament that is being sustained by culture. The women say a solution to what they term ‘unbearable inequality’ is
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