Spotlight Initiative Interventions and Impacts in Lagos State

* Strengthened capacities of the law enforcement agencies (Lagos State Neighborhood Corp (LNSC) and the Lagos State command of the NSCDC) within the State on how to prevent and respond to VAWG/SGBV/HP.

* Developed a GBV response guidance note for survivors of GBV including persons with disabilities for reporting to the National Human Rights Commission. This guidance note was translated to Braille for use by PWDs who are visually impaired cluster. This has further improved the availability of information to PWDs who are typically not effectively programmed for.

* Empowerment and Improved financial capacity of 337 women and girl’s survivors of gender-based violence through the Livelihood Pathway program in Nigeria. The empowered beneficiaries of livelihood programs are now running their businesses and act as trainers for other women.

* A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for VAWGs was developed and integrated service provision and strengthening referral pathways in the state especially mainstreaming PWDs into the GBV response in collaboration with the Lagos State Office for Disability Affairs (LASODA).

* Over 25,000 young people reached under ‘Hello Lagos’, a transformative initiative focused on providing Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services and information to adolescents.

Enhanced skill of Data Officers in the State Ministry, CSO/SPs, Women Right Advocate Organization

* Established a movement of approximately 700 women’s groups, consisting of CSOs, BMOs, FBOs, PWDs, artisans, market women, female traditional rulers, and professional bodies

* 300 CSOs representing youth and other groups facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that are integrated with coalitions and networks of women’s rights groups and civil society working on ending VAWG, within the last year.