Reports

YARAC’s Final Narrative Report For The Joint Donor Basket Fund Project: "Beyond Elections: Protecting People’s Mandate through Transformative Voter Education for Grassroots Women and Youth Organizations in North Central Nigeria." For the full report, download the attached Word Document.

As a result of the debt cancelation by the Paris club of Creditors, Nigeria made a commitment to allocate funds that would have been used to service debt to the implemetation of projects and programmes that will assist in the attainment of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) in the country. A sum of N100billion was allocated by the past administration to 10 MDG related MDAs which include: Agriculture, Water Ressources, Power and Steel, Works, Youth and Intergovernmental affairs, Housing and Environment, Education, Health, Women Affairs.

INTRODUCTION

Before the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the concept of sexuality was a rare mention in the public space in most parts of Nigeria . Adolescents especially in the developing countries, still suffer from lack of access to adequate and correct sexual and reproductive health information and skills; have remained highly vulnerable to and victims of sexually transmitted infections/diseases including HIV/AIDS. Generally, 60 percent of the total number of persons infected are young people aged 15 -25 who die yearly (WHARC, Critical Issues in Reproductive Health and Rights in Nigeria. 2002). The ICPD in 1994 articulated some of the reproductive rights of adolescents to make decision(s) about their reproduction, free of discrimination, coercion, and violence. Consequently, there have been huge increase in the activities of NGOs / CBOs / CSO and other faith based organizations aimed at promoting the reproductive health and rights of disadvantage adolescent in developing countries including Nigeria.