The Magaret Ekpo Youth Fellowship Program for Women’s Rights aims to amplify the voices of young women’s rights activist leaders who are speaking against social norms and cultural practices that enable violence against women and girls in Nigeria. It will ensure more recognition of women’s voices and leadership in Nigeria and also support the women’s voices to achieve stronger intergenerational partnerships in the efforts to reduce and eradicate GBV in Nigeria through the following primary objectives:

• To build the capacity of young women’s rights activists from across the 6 geo-political zones in Nigeria, especially in understanding linkages between different issues and advocacy agendas.
• To strengthen women’s rights’ advocacy work at the national and state levels.
• To prepare young activists for the challenges entailed in working for gender justice in the present national, geopolitical, and economic context.
• Provide a platform for the emerging groups to engage and collaborate to continue to speak up against gender inequality and challenging social norms that endangers women’s and girls’ well-being in Nigeria.
• To create a network of emerging activists which will draw on the principles that drove the work by established women’s rights activist leaders (such as Margaret Ekpo) and continue to build on them.

This activity is aimed at strengthening the budding relationship between emerging women’s rights activists and established ones in Nigeria.