Activities of the Centre...

The Centre’s programmes are run through the following activities

• Research and Advocacy

The Centre runs a specialized library that manages gender desegregated information and data. The Library promotes women and young people's access to electronic data and information. It provides women's right advocates and researchers with timely, authoritative and appropriate literature necessary for conducting research and knowledge update on women's issues.

• Women's Information and Resource Centre

The Centre runs a specialized library that manages gender desegregated information and data. The Library promotes women and young people's access to electronic data and information. It provides women's right advocates and researchers with timely, authoritative and appropriate literature necessary for conducting research and knowledge update on women's issues. project_a.htm, training_ngo.htm

It is designed to serve as a depository of books, journals, legislations, policies, reports, and bibliographic data, videos on women and young people's rights in Nigeria, Africa and around the world.

• Women’s Development and Action Network (WODANET) - Investing in women for a change.

WODANET is set up in order to promote the realisation of women and girls’ reproductive health rights through access to economic empowerment opportunities, skills development programmes as well as useful information on their well being. WODANET is a project of the Centre set up as a network of organizations and individuals across the country.

One of the activities of this network is to seek out girls who do not have the opportunity to be educated or to further their education beyond certain level due to financial constraints or girls who are willing to learn a trade but do not have the wherewithal to do so.

These are girls whose reproductive health right would be jeopardised if they do not have access to such developmental opportunities. WODANET is unique in that it is a network of women and organizations whose main mission is to empower disadvantaged girls/women.

• Publications

The Centre produces reports of its research in form of monographs as well as a bi-annual newsletter that serves as a medium for exchange of ideas and experiences and a medium for reporting on the activities of the organization. One of its Publications is the Report of the project on use of young girls as domestic workers in Nigeria. It is titled - ‘Appreciating the Plight of Domestic Workers.’ Another publication of the centre is the research work on Improving Women’s Access to Emergency Obstetric Care Services in Nigeria. Other Publications include the Centre’s Newsletter and News Sheet “Hope News” and The Youth Development Comic Series Volume 1.

• Networking and Capacity Building

A key component of CEWHIN’s mode of operation involves networking and collaborating with other NGO’s. In the spirit of networking and capacity building, staff of CEWHIN participated in various training programmes, workshops, meetings, conferences and seminars organised by other organizations, both local and international. Through the process, the centre forged a depth and diversity of working relationships with different organisations of like goals and objectives.

The centre also carries out a training workshop on effective NGO management and development.