Women's Right to Education Programme (WREP)

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Women’s Right to Education Programme (WREP) is a registered non-governmental, non-profit and voluntary organization established with the aim to provide a platform for women, youth and other stakeholders in education as well as liaise and initiate projects to facilitate our quest for quality education for all.
WREP also seeks to engender development by promoting women's empowerment and values that promote self-reliance, democracy, equality and socio-political economic justice.
The NGO establishes and delivers capabilities in training, technical assistance, mentoring, social mobilization and community based initiatives and services, and women community groups. It contributes with expertise to good governance, transparency and accountability and engendered development through capacity building, mentorship and international task force and action committees.

WREP envisions a Nigeria where there is equity and equality of men and women and where socio-economic justice prevails and all live in peace and harmony.

Our mission is to promote a true culture of lifelong learning and promote the practice of transparancy and accountability in the mobilisation, allocation and utilization of community, state and national resources in such a way as to achieve an acceptable level of standard of living for every Nigerian.

Objectives:
• To promote the enrolment, retention and completion of the girl child education in schools by contributing to the local economic development initiatives in education for women and girls especially in the rural areas
• To build capacity for increased human rights culture awareness and address societal violence against women and youths.
• To build the capacity of communities on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and conflict resolution strategies using advocacy and training workshops to reduce violence against women.
• To promote transparency accountability and the inclusion and active participation of women in the extractive sector of the economy through training and capacity building programmes.
• To promote good governance and respect for the rule of law by supporting the building and promotion of transparency and accountability structures within the public and civil society sectors of the Nigerian economy.
• To undertake lobbying, advocacy and research n the area of gender equality in order to promote youth and women advancement and empowerment strategies.

What we do
• Popular education: Transforming to form an integral part of community organizing. We focuses on popular education to broaden our audience that includes not only the illiterate but also the semi-illiterate the literate and the general community. That people should have the potential and knowledge to make decisions that affect their lives and communities.
• Community development: This focuses on development issues and policies that can contribute to the building of alternative approaches to educational development. The community development programme seeks to integrate the pillars of organizing social, political and sustainable livelihood. That women's empowerment and direct involvement in all levels is crucial for building gender sensitivity and equality in all policies.
• Lobbying advocacy and research: Through this, WREP is involved in sensitizing the communities, policy makers as to the crucial issues involved in women's and girls' education through building leadership and media campaigns, etc we intend to give women voice. Bi-annual newsletters and mimeographs, workshops/seminars. We encourage networking and collaboration amongst NGOs. Provision of mentoring and assistance to under- privileged women.

Mimidoo Achakpa is the Executive Director of Women's Right to Education Programme (WREP).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of education.