Her Emergency Helpline Initiative
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1) Meet with stakeholders to identify potential caretakers2) Training of the potential caretakers3) Meet with a network provider to provide the IDP camp with mobile network for a year and negotiate the price4) Obtain the solar powered mobile phones and give them to the caretakers5) Facilitate first support network meeting and teach girls on how to make use of these solar powered phones
Training of women residing in the IDP camp interested in becoming caretakers. Teaching these women and young girls on how to use the new technology, that is the solar powered mobile phones to transfer information to the helpline. These women will also teach the girls on their human sexual and reproductive health rights and ensure its practice to promote gender equality. Banners, t-shirts writing equipment will be needed during the capacity building and technology transfer process.
The initial step is to achieve entrance into the IDP camp, through working in partnership with National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Nigeria. On entrance into the camp women who are interested in empowering girls and their fellow women will be identified through stakeholder advocacy meetings. These women will be trained on the policies and legislation that promote gender equality and the very crucial part of the project the 3Rs (Request, Report, and Respond). These women who will be properly trained as caretakers will be in possession of the solar powered mobile phone which gives girls direct access to the empowerment helpline, through which they can obtain information, advice and support when needed. The young girls in the camps will also have support group meeting on monthly bases about various sexual health issues and the rights the possess concerning them, these meeting will be led by the trained caretakers. In these meeting they will also be taught how to observe a need, report a need and make use of the advice given to them. They will also be taught how to place in the calls or send text messages when they are unable to make calls. The helplines will be available 24hours a day, 7 days a week, with trained volunteers answering the calls and providing information and advice for the calls that come through. When there is an emergency that needs urgent support, NEMA will be contacted immediately and directed to the camp where the call came in from.
Due to the alarming increase in religious insurgence such as Boko Haram in Nigeria, there has been an anatomical increase in the number of internally displaced person. Displaced persons especially women and young girls become vulnerable to rape, teenage pregnancy, domestic violence, gender discrimination, human trafficking and other types of violence. This is due to the fact that these women and girls experience poverty and poor living conditions as a result from being displaced from their homes. Men therefore see this as an opportunity to exploit these girls sexually in exchange for welfare, money etc, by involving them in premarital sex, even rape and abuse. This leads to an increasing rate of teenage pregnancy, HIV/AIDS prevalence within these camps and thus increasing mortality rates of women and young girls. These women and girls therefore need support, information and advice to help them make informed sexual and reproductive health decisions
SDGS & Targets
Goal 5
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
5.1
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere
5.1.1
Whether or not legal frameworks are in place to promote, enforce and monitor equality and non‑discrimination on the basis of sex
5.2
5.2.1
Proportion of ever-partnered women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to physical, sexual or psychological violence by a current or former intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by form of violence and by age
5.2.2
Proportion of women and girls aged 15 years and older subjected to sexual violence by persons other than an intimate partner in the previous 12 months, by age and place of occurrence
5.3
5.3.1
Proportion of women aged 20-24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
5.3.2
Proportion of girls and women aged 15-49 years who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting, by age
5.4
Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate
5.4.1
Proportion of time spent on unpaid domestic and care work, by sex, age and location
5.5
Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
5.5.1
Proportion of seats held by women in (a) national parliaments and (b) local governments
5.5.2
Proportion of women in managerial positions
5.6
Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences
5.6.1
Proportion of women aged 15-49 years who make their own informed decisions regarding sexual relations, contraceptive use and reproductive health care
5.6.2
Number of countries with laws and regulations that guarantee full and equal access to women and men aged 15 years and older to sexual and reproductive health care, information and education
5.a
Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws
5.a.1
(a) Proportion of total agricultural population with ownership or secure rights over agricultural land, by sex; and (b) share of women among owners or rights-bearers of agricultural land, by type of tenure
5.a.2
Proportion of countries where the legal framework (including customary law) guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control
5.b
5.b.1
Proportion of individuals who own a mobile telephone, by sex
5.c
Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
5.c.1
Proportion of countries with systems to track and make public allocations for gender equality and women’s empowerment
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Mina Ogbanga, Dr, Mrs