About Us

Quality Standards

Stand With A Girl (SWAG) Initiative is a registered youth-led and women-led organisation dedicated to ensuring that every girl in Nigeria no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfil her maximum potential.

SWAG’s mission is to promote a safe and supportive environment for the social, economic, academic, and healthy development of girls in Nigeria through empowerment.

Its thematic areas are Education, Sexual and ReproductiveHealth, and Empowerment.

Since 2016, SWAG Initiative has reached over two (2) million rural and urban slum underserved adolescent girls, parents, teachers, community members, religious and traditional leaders, policy makers, promoting girls’ leadership and gender equality through strategic programming and advocacy against harmful cultural practices and gender norms, low level of education, poor sexual and reproductive health information and services.

Our Mission

To promote a safe and supportive environment for the social, economic, academic and healthy development of girls in Nigeria through empowerment

Our Vision

Every girl in Nigeria no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfill her maximum potentials.

Core Values

Our core values are Integrity, Leadership, Service and Empathy.

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Built and strengthened capacities of 5000 parents and caregivers on effective parent-child communication on Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) and girl-child education. These parents made commitments to speaking to their girls on their SRH needs.

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10,000 girls gained basic life skills such as self-esteem, assertiveness, negotiation, financial and communication skills to become informed changemakers.

Empowered 30 Women and girls at the Wassa Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp in FCT to access, utilise and advocate for quality Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) particularly SGBV information and services.

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Empowered 110 women at the Internally Displaced Persons Camp with seed grants and skills on record keeping and business sustainability.

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Built capacity of over 50 media organisations on effective messaging on Education and health of adolescent and young people.

Trained 77 family planning providers, traditional birth attendants, and community health extension workers on adolescents and youthfriendly health service provision in Kaduna, Nigeria

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Built capacity of 166 Youth Data Advocates, Adolescent Health Desk Officers, and Monitoring & Evaluation officers on AYSRH data for decision-making and programming in 12 States (Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Edo, Bauchi, Ogun, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Taraba, Kaduna, Oyo and FCT) in Nigeria on the Data Made Simple Project funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Grand Challenge Canada.

Supported 36 adolescent girl advocates (10-19 years) from across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria with knowledge and skills to advocate for enabling policies and investment in girls’ education, health, and wellbeing.

Supported 12 States in Nigeria to translate Adolescent and Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health (AYSRH) data into simple, friendly, catchy, and responsive storybooks with over 100 Decision makers engaged in promoting young people’s access to quality healthcare.

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Equipped over 300 Adolescent Girls in Nigeria to be Champions of Gender Equality Through the Female Mentorship project.

Specifically, we have supported 13 States through the State Adolescent Technical Working Groups (TWGs) on Adolescent Health and Development to become adolescent and youth responsive while delivering quality, youth-friendly, and equitable health services through domestication and operationalisation of AYSRH policies and guidelines.

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Empowered 120 Adolescents girls with life skills including information om SRH-R through mentorship programmes in safe space.

15 Girls are currently enrolled under the first cohort of the SWAG Education safe space at Wassa IDP camp and are being taught numeracy, literacy and lifeskills.

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Sensitized over 6000 community members across 7 states in Nigeria to access and utilize quality sexual and reproductive health & Right (SRHR) information and services under the Data Made Simple project.

SWAG Initiative has engaged over 30 media organizations in relation to our goal across the country

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For world menstrual hygiene day 2022, SWAG Initiative sensitized 200 women and girls at Tasha community and distributed menstrual hygiene product for the women and girls

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1800 In and Out of school adolescents and young people in urban and rural areas were sensitized on sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and fitness as well as mental health during the 2022 international adolescent health week

60 Youth Data Advocates were engaged and trained to simplify data on AYSRH across 12 states in Nigeria

The capacity of 30 women and girls was built to carry out smart advocacy on sexual and gender-based violence in the IDP camp

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For world menstrual hygiene fay 2022, SWAG Initiative sensitized 200 women and girls at tasha community and distributed menstrual hygiene product for the women and girls

•To empower girls to make informed choices about their education, health and development
•To reduce maternal and infant deaths
•To increase girls’ potential to meaningfully engage in economic and political activities
•To increase the focus on adolescent health especially Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at all levels in Nigeria
•To support members of the community in meeting their education, health and empowerment needs.
•To cooperate with relevant government and non-governmental organizations to achieve its objectives