VACANCY! VACANCY!! VACANCY!!! Concern Women International Development Initiative (CWIDI) is looking for experienced individuals to fill in the following available positions. 1. Clinical Psychologists or Counselors Responsibilities & Job Requirements: To support our on going COVID-19 activity targeting key population Read More …
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CWIDI calls for increase in awareness and access to female condoms in Nigeria during the 2018 Global Female Condom Day
September 16th of every year is called the day of the female condom. This day is set aside to create awareness and increase the discussion on access and use of the female condom as well as break the barriers surrounding Read More …
SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES AND INFORMATION: BARRIERS IN THE INTERVENTION
Young people need access to a variety of sexual reproductive health services and information regardless of their being sexually active or not. Sexual and reproductive health interventions and program planned for adolescents and young people do not reach them and Read More …
2018 World Contraception Day: CWIDI calls on young people to speak out to remove barriers
Nigerian political history and studies (for instance, Ejukonemu and Akintola, 2013; Akintola, 2016) have demonstrated that Nigeria is only good at formulating good policies but fail in implementation. Most policies in the country are either partially implemented or not implemented Read More …
Access to contraception and Adolescents’ Well-being
In many parts of the world, including Africa, adolescents are grappling with the physical and emotional transformations that usually accompany their change of status. Many of them are becoming sexually active at an earlier age more than ever before. Yet Read More …
Relevance of Sexuality Education to Advancing the Sexual and Reproductive Health on Young People
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is an age-appropriate, culturally relevant approach to teaching about sex and relationships by providing scientifically accurate, realistic, and non-judgmental information ((Stefiszzn 2014). It provides opportunities to explore one’s own values and attitudes and to build decision-making, Read More …
WOMEN RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS (3): SOCIAL NORMS AND PRACTICES
The third area women are globally discriminated against is through social norms and practices. Through them women rights in Nigeria are denied because social norms determine gender expectations and shape people’s behaviours in the community. Noteworthy also is to state Read More …