The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) is organizing today, October 12, 2021, a policy dialogue and research Validation on all Forms and Prevalence of Gender-Based Violence in the Extractive Sector in Taraba State. The dialogue is being implemented under the Centre LSD BUILD grant by Ford Foundation with relevant stakeholders in the extractive sector including; host communities representatives, miners and government officials in Taraba state.
A statement by Ms. Victoria Ose Ikearu-Udoh, Programme Co–ordinator of the Centre, the state-level policy dialogue is the third and last in the series of dialogue under the BUILD grant.
The first and second were held in Ebonyi and Ekiti State respectively. According to her, the dialogue like the ones held in the aforementioned states served dual purposes including; serving as a forum for validation of the research on the Forms and Prevalence of Gender-Based Violence faced by women in the extractive sector, particularly in Taraba state and will also be used to stimulate discussions and chatting way forward as to resolving the challenges of gender-based violence in the extractive sector in the state, and in Nigeria as a whole.
The policy dialogue according to the release will herald the capacity building of representatives of Mining Host Communities & Artisanal Miners in the state coming also within the week.
The released enjoined members of the public who could not attend in person, to follow the conversations via the Centre LSD social media handles, as we collectively work to reduce all forms of gender-based violence in the extractive sector in Nigeria.