Ending SGBV: UN Calls for Improve Investment by Stakeholders

 

UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Matthias Schmale has sent an appeal to all stakeholders mitigating against Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) to step up investment to end violence against women and girls.


Schmale made the appeal at the media briefing and official Orange lighting ceremony of UN House ceremony on Tuesday night in Abuja.


The event was organise


d by the UN Women as part of activities lined up for the 16-days of activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).


Schmale talking on the theme of this year’s celebration of 16 days of activism:“Unite, Invest to Prevent Violence,” said:

“Investment obviously mean money, we need to continue to push for gender-responsive budgeting at Federal and State levels, that is one of the responsibilities and it grows in power.


“The private sector needs to step up, UN Women representative and some other group with the private sector would agree to setting up a fund to actually fight GBV.


“So, that is few thought on investment which stakeholders agree require resources to make things happen.


“On the need for prevention we need to get the judiciary to work harder to prosecute violators of GBV.”


Schmale advised law enforcement agencies, media organisations, creative industry and traditional institutions, to also work collectively to ensure the prevention against GBV.


UN Women Representative to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Beatrice Eyong on her part, said violence against women is the most pervasive breach of human rights worldwide, adding that “we need to work together to tackle this menace to achieve meaningful impact.”


She said: “We all need to invest resources, energy and time to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls.”


Also speaking, the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, called for collective campaign to end GBV.


Kennedy-Ohanenye who was represented by a director in the ministry, Mrs Beatrice Evelyn said: “The campaign calls on all stakeholders to be committed to end GBV and all forms of violence, including discrimination against women and girls in both private and public sectors.


She noted that: “The theme particularly calls for investment in girl child education, women socioeconomic empowerment, ending harmful traditional practices and ICT training for women and girls.”


The Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Sen. Ireti Kingibe on her part, said plans have been put on ground to sensitise FCT residents which she is representing in the Senate on importance of ending GBV.


She said: “I cannot known when a Women is been violated in Nyanya when I am in Maitama, so towards the end of the 16-days of activism we will be calling for Orange March-up.


“Everybody will go on high and sign and it will then be the monitoring body, in your respective community, so that it will be easier for women to report violence cases.


“We can only make meaningful impact when we are united, not when we are working in silos.”

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