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About
Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre
Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre is a community gender-based non-governmental organization working in Nigeria and the African region to promote women’s rights and environmental justice. Kebetkache is rooted in communities in the Niger Delta and is recognized for its in-depth knowledge of the issues working in communities in the region especially around women’s rights, democracy and good governance, peace and security and climate change. Kebetkache works extensively with women in rural communities of the Niger Delta region, in mobilizing and facilitating engagement with various levels of Stakeholders.
Date of Implementation: 2021-2025.
Total Number of Beneficiaries: 444 individuals, with 254 female and 190 male.
There are six (6) women’s organizations involved in the women empowerment initiatives, namely:
- Okwuzi Women Initiative
- Olegh Center for Community Development
- Itigidi Community Action Group
- Alau-chi women
- Abua Women Initiative
- Otuabagi women group
Communities of F4A implementation on WEE-related activities:
- Itigidi
- Eleme
- Okwuzi
- Oleh
Kebetkache marked the International Women’s Day on March 8, 2022, held a peaceful work to the government house in Port Harcourt, to demand the Implementation of the 35% Affirmative Action. The 2022 theme is “Break The Bias”.
(Photo: KEBETKACHE Media and Communications Unit)
- Gender Gap has a significant impact on women’s economic empowerment and well-being, affecting them in increasing women’s economic dependence on men, this have limit their ability to make choices and decisions about their own lives, this has also lead to more women likely to experience poverty due to low earnings, reduced access to resources and responsibility.
- Lack of funding, training on smart agriculture, access to micro credit, and lack of access to business management.
- Training on community leaders, community-based organizations, and community development committee in Port Harcourt.
- Training on Gender inclusiveness and Social Inclusion in Cross Rivers State and Rivers State that was held to capacitate women on community participation in their own governance.
- Training on community members on Environmental frameworks (Petroleum Industry Act. Nigerian Local Content Act, UN Guidelines on Business and Human Rights)
- Training on Mangrove conservation
- Unwillingness for community right holders and governance to shift to a more inclusive governance process, this is hindering the implementation of gender friendly policy at local government level.
- Lack of access to credit to women small scale farmers.
- Lack of access to land.
- Violence by herdsmen.
At a community strategy session on women inclusion in resource governance in the Niger Delta.
(Photo: KEBETKACHE Media and Communications Unit)
- Destruction of indigenous seeds by oil and gas extraction.
- Women farmers are seeking to improve seedlings to address the challenges of flooding.
- Capacity building of women on smart agriculture.
- Linking climate change adaptation to improve agriculture related activities to adapt to climate change.
- Enhance women participation in forestry.
- Need for increase budgetary allocation to gender sensitive agriculture programs.
- Need to Increase awareness on impact of climate change on agriculture.
- Understanding the local context, culture and power dynamics is crucial in project designs and implementation, also increasing challenging harmful norms and stereotypes for sustainable change, also need to have a comprehensive approach, addressing multiple aspects of women’s lives including education, economic opportunities, gender and social inclusion and also protection.
- Increase partnership with government agencies at all levels to implement gender friendly policies.
Opportunities currently being implemented to address challenges to promote women’s economic empowerment in the project
Kebetkache women development have provided support to 30 women to enhance alternative livelihood initiative on the dare to trust fund.
Opportunities in the future to promote women empowerment and visibility of women in your projects/F4A Programme
Mobilize women Niger Delta women to take action on climate related issues.
Best practices
George having a plantain plantation in Outabagi, Bayelsa state, from our feminist consultation.
Regional Exchange visit with Women from 12 countries having extractive issues, this was a visit to the first oil well in Otuagbagi community, commonly known as Olobiri Oil well One, in Bayelsa State in 2022.
(Photo: KEBETKACHE Media and Communications Unit)
Promoting a feminist economy in the Niger Delta.
Research Report:
Marginalised Groups
Participation Index (MGPI)
The MGPI is a framework developed for utilisation as a participatory tool for exploring the broad range and scope, as well as the depth and degree of participation of marginalised groups across four broad spheres of human and societal engagements and interactions.
Policy Brief:
Land Grabbing, Reflections, Concerns, and Implications for Women’s Livelihood
Land and land grabbing are top in the list of contentious issues that have gained popularity in Nigeria than any other country in Africa. This policy brief examined land grabbing and its impact on women’s livelihood in Rivers state.
Full name: Dr. Emem Okon
Position: Executive Director
Organization: Kebetkache Women Development and Resource Centre
Email address: emem.bridget@kebetkachewomencentre.com