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About SWAG

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

Stand With A Girl (SWAG) Initiative is youth-led organization dedicated to ensuring that every girl in Nigeria, no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfilll her maximum potential. Our goal is to promote a safe and supportive environment for the social, economic, academic and healthy development of girls in Nigeria.

Since its establishment on March 1, 2016, SWAG Initiative has implemented activities with rural and urban slum marginalized Adolescent Girls, Parents, Community Members, Religious and Traditional Leaders promoting girls’ empowerment and gender equality through the fight 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.

Achievements

Some of our Key Achievements

5 K
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.
10 K
10,000 girls gained basic life skills such as self-esteem, assertiveness, negotiation, financial and communication skills to become informed changemakers.
30
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.
110
Empowered 110 women at the Internally Displaced Persons Camp with seed grants and skills on record keeping and business sustainability.
50 +
Built capacity of over 50 media organisations on effective messaging on Education and health of adolescent and young people.
77
Trained 77 family planning providers, traditional birth attendants, and community health extension workers on adolescents and youthfriendly health service provision in Kaduna, Nigeria
166 +
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.
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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.
12
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.
300 +
Equipped over 300 Adolescent Girls in Nigeria to be Champions of Gender Equality Through the Female Mentorship project.
100 +
Over 100 community leaders engaged in various projects to ensure sustainability.
100 +
Over 100 communities reached through SWAG interventions since 2016.
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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
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.
10
Enrolled 10 adolescent girls into the formal school setting.
6 K+
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.
30
SWAG Initiative has engaged over 30 media organizations in relation to our goal across the country
200
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
1800
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
60 Youth Data Advocates were engaged and trained to simplify data on AYSRH across 12 states in Nigeria
100
Over 100 community leaders engaged in various projects to ensure sustainability
30
The capacity of 30 women and girls was built to carry out smart advocacy on sexual and gender-based violence in the IDP camp
200
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
Objectives

Our Objectives

  • •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

SWAGEP – EMPOWER

Empowerment

We Lead

Empowerment

SWAG Education Project

Education

Girl Advocate for Safe Schools (GASS)

Education

Girl Advocate for Gender Equality (GAGE)

Empowerment
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