The Nigerian Army (NA) and the British High Commission, Defence Section (West Africa) has taken its advocacy on Gender Mainstreaming to the Army’s 8 Division Area of Responsibility, Sokoto, Sokoto State.
The three-day workshop tagged “Gender Mainstreaming for Enhanced Professionalism in the NA,” was organised by the Department of Civil-Military Affairs, Army Headquarters, Abuja, kicked off on Sunday.
The workshop was declared opened by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Major General Uwem Bassey, who was represented 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 Nigerian Army, particularly because assigned missions within the joint environment are becoming complex, increasingly expanding and dynamic in the areas of Gender Mainstreaming and lnternational Humanitarian Law and Fundamentals Human Rights.
The first phase of the workshop was conducted in some selected formations across the Army. 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.
