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| AHI's resource library, stocked with books on health, gender, human rights, HIV/AIDS, violence, and more, is free and open to young people in Lagos. |
Action Health Incorporated (AHI)
Founded in 1989 in Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, AHI is a local, national, and regional leader on adolescent health and rights. AHI played a key role in the development of a sexuality education curriculum for Nigeria's public schools, adopted by the federal government in 2000 and currently undergoing pilot implementation in several Nigerian states. AHI trains peer educators, medical professionals, and fellow nongovernmental organizations to provide quality sexuality education to young people, and reaches out to local youth through information sessions, skills programs, a resource library, and a clinic that serves over 30,000 adolescents each year. IWHC has supported AHI since 1990.
>>For more information, visit AHI's website.
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| A baby sleeps on her mother's back at AHIP's vocational training center for women in Kano. |
Adolescent Health and Information Project (AHIP)
Based in the northern city of Kano, where Sharia'h Islamic law—introduced at the state level in 2000—threatens women's human rights and limits all people's access to accurate information on sexuality and reproductive health, AHIP has forged critical partnerships with religious, traditional, and government leaders to ensure that adolescents have the information they need to make a healthy transition to adulthood. AHIP reaches out to young people in the community through a youth center, a newsletter, a peer education program operating in over 150 schools, and sports programs for both boys and girls. AHIP also operates four vocational centers for women that offer literacy and skills training, together with information on health and sexuality. IWHC has supported AHIP since 1995.
Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy (CAUP)
Launched in 1991, CAUP is the lead group advocating for increased access to safe abortion in Nigeria. Through years of legal, medical, media, and public engagement, CAUP has built a strong and diverse base of support for their platform of sexuality education, family planning, safe abortion, and increased adoption options. CAUP is also working to address the health needs of Nigerian adolescents through the establishment of youth-friendly health services, and is the founder and mentor of Action Group on Adolescent Health, a medical students' association with chapters in six Nigerian medical schools. IWHC has supported CAUP since its creation in 1991. Read more>>
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| A CMA participant outside the program's Calabar center. |
Conscientizing Male Adolescents (CMA)
Founded in 1995 in the southeastern city of Calabar by former journalist and longtime political activist Edwin Madunagu, CMA seeks to promote critical consciousness and anti-sexist attitudes among teenage boys. CMA's comprehensive curriculum helps boys to examine sources of oppression in their own lives, apply their analysis to society at large, and identify ways that they can change their own behavior. Through weekly discussion sessions, a library and documentation center, school and community outreach programs, and a quarterly newsletter, CMA is building a new generation of Nigerian men who practice and promote gender equality as a way of life. IWHC has supported CMA since its creation in 1995.
Girls' Power Initiative (GPI)
Founded in 1994, GPI sets an international standard for rights-based, gender-sensitive work with young people on issues of sexuality and reproduction. Through outreach centers in four Nigerian states and activity programs in 28 schools, GPI provides Nigerian girls between the ages of 10 and 19 with vital information about their bodies, their rights, and their responsibilities, empowering them to avoid unwanted pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, and violent or coercive relationships, and to realize their full potential as individuals. Through public and media outreach, policy advocacy, a Gender Development Institute, a regular newsletter, and radio and TV programs, GPI is focusing attention on the health needs and human rights of Nigerian girls, and laying the groundwork for a new generation of feminist leaders. IWHC has supported GPI since its creation in 1994. Read more>>
For more information, visit GPI's website.
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| A dance drama developed by INCRESE that integrates traditional dances from northern Nigeria with dramas on sexual violence, body image, masculinity, and other topics, attracts young people passing by INCRESE's center in Minna. After the dance, INCRESE staff engage the audience in a discussion of what they have just seen and invite them to participate in classes on health, rights, and communication at the center. |
International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights (INCRESE)
Based in the central Nigerian city of Minna, where Sharia'h Islamic law—introduced at the state level in 2000—threatens women's human rights and undermines all people's access to accurate information on sexuality and reproduction, INCRESE advocates for the sexual health and rights of society's most disenfranchised groups, including youth, sexual minorities, survivors of sexual violence, commercial sex workers, and widowed women living with HIV/AIDS. Through education programs in its outreach center and advocacy throughout the community, INCRESE is promoting an understanding of sexual rights that is both protective (the right to say no to unwanted sex) and affirmative (the right to sexual expression)—and challenging the culture of silence around sexuality in a highly conservative environment. IWHC has supported INCRESE since its creation in 2002.
For more information, visit INCRESE's website.
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