Chuks Oyema-Aziken
The second phase of the Nigerian Army (NA) advocacy on Gender Mainstreaming has commenced in the 8 Division Area of Responsibility, Sokoto.
The workshop being organised by the Department of Civil-Military Affairs will be conducted from 16 -18 January 2022.
Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations, said the workshop tagged “Gender mainstreaming for enhanced professionalism in the NA is being done in collaboration with British Defence Section, West Africa.
The workshop was declared opened by the General Officer Commanding 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Maj Gen Uwem Bassey, who was represented at the event by Brigadier General Mohammed Abdullahi, Chief of Staff, Headquarters 8 Division.
The workshop, he said, seeks to build the requisite capacity of officers and men of the NA, particularly as assigned missions within the joint environment are becoming complex, increasingly expanding and dynamic in the areas of gender mainstreaming, lnternational Humanitarian Law and Fundamentals Human Rights.
The first phase of the workshop was conducted in some selected formations across the NA. The second phase has been approved with Sokoto as the focal start point.
Participants were drawn from security and para-military agencies, Civil Society Organisations, Humanitarian Agencies and other critical stakeholders.
