Chief Of Army Staff Elevates Gender Advocacy Campaigns
OpenLife Nigeria has gathered that the Nigerian Army, led by the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, in collaboration with British Defence Section, West Africa, has taken its advocacy on Gender Mainstreaming to 8 Division Area of Responsibility, Sokoto.
This is contained in a statement signed by Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director, Army Public Relations and made available to OpenLife.
According to the statement, the workshop tagged “Gender mainstreaming for enhanced professionalism in the Nigerian Army “, organised by the Department of Civil-Military Affairs, started on January 16 and would end January 18, 2022.
The statement further stated that the workshop was declared opened by the General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Uwem Bassey, who was represented at the event by Brigadier General Mohammed Abdullahi, Chief of Staff, Headquarters 8 Division.
The workshop, he said, seeks to build the requisite capacity of officers and men of the Nigerian Army, particularly as assigned missions within the joint environment are becoming complex, increasingly expanding and dynamic in the areas of gender mainstreaming, lnternational Humanitarian Law and Fundamentals Human Rights.
The first phase of the workshop was conducted in some selected formations across the Nigerian Army.
The second phase has been approved with Sokoto as the focal start point.
Participants were drawn from security and para-military agencies, Civil Society Organisations, Humanitarian Agencies and other critical stakeholders.
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