Ladies Empowerment Goals and Support Initiative (LEGASI)

Earlier today, as we marked the #YouthLead 2023 #InternationalYouthDay: #GreenSkills towards a Sustainable World. Discussions centred on how African Youths should position themselves for #leadership. More efforts are required to galvanise support for instructional training in developing relevant #GreenSkills for future global challenges for youths. Collaborations cross-cutting government, civil society and the educational sector is required to equip young people with the skill set to respond to new job profiles in industry sectors inclusive of #RenewableEnergy, #Recycling, Improved #FarmingMethod, #TechHubs, #CloudComputing Internet of Things #IoTs to name a few. The world is witnessing a gradual shift in energy sources to adopt more greenhouse friendly energy. Here we see a shift from crude oil extracts to clean sources of energy in solar, geothermal and wind catalyzed by an increase in #DigitalTech and Internet of Things #IoTs creating more connections to #CloudTech and #AI development. We now have a transverse virtual and physical ecosystem. #GreenSkills will prepare the #Youth for the demands of the 5th Industrial Revolution. kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade United Nations Peace Direct European Union Microsoft

#16DaysOfActivism 2024 theme, “Towards Beijing +30: UNiTE to End Violence Against Women and Girls." - bit.ly/3CGOxS2. There is #NoExcuse to violence against women, we join the campaign to challenge prevalent gender-based violence in Nigeria. Ladies Empowerment Goals and Support Initiative (LEGASI) has a goal to empower especially women and girls in Nigeria to ensure they live peacefully and are empowered within their community to live their lives free of any form of violence and hate. Our Theory of Change (ToC) stands on the premise that if more women and girls are empowered financially, emotionally and have access to good education with the right social support systems they become less vulnerable to violence within their immediate community and the larger society. As a community-based organization, the organizations Girl-Centered programs are focused at firstly creating safe spaces for women and girls to converge and discuss about their unique challenges, especially domestic constraints which they face on a daily basis. Through our Women, Peace and Security program we are constantly bridging the gap on preventing the cycle of violence for women and girls in our intervention communities and strive to give the women and girls a voice and role models they can look up to when they have to speak up and speak out on issues that concern them. Overall, we are building confidence, leadership and communication skills, harnessing entrepreneurial opportunities towards financial independence. Peace Direct Kayode Oguntade kaltumi Abdulazeez

Supporting Home Grown Peace Initiatives - Dissemination Session in Kaduna. As we step into the season of the LAF 3, LEGASI earlier this week on Tuesday, 29th October, 2024; we had a stakeholders dissemination session themed “Supporting Home Grown Peace Initiatives” with the EnGAGE community partners and other stakeholder organizations. This served as a learning session to view the wins from the EnGAGE project, identify areas for improvement and gain useful feedback from the various teams who worked through the review period of the LAF 2 season. #peace #communityfirst #livlihood #entrepreneurship Peace Direct kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade GIZ Nigeria & ECOWAS

#HearMyVoice - The Role of Youth in Peacebuilding LEGASI will be there! FELICIA ALHASSAN , Ph.D in progress. (CEO Nexusfare) kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade Zoom Sessions: Day 1 – Tuesday, 15 October 2024 Event 1: Promoting women’s rights in conflict and post-conflict contexts Time: 12noon(EAT) Link: https://lnkd.in/deeniH_S Event 2: Documentary Screening Time: 16h00 Link: https://lnkd.in/dGGJJudk ###### Day 2 – 16 October 2024 Event 1: Decolonizing Women Peace and Security Time: 12noon(EAT) Link: https://lnkd.in/d3VZr_uj Event 2: The role of youth in peacebuilding. Time: 16h00 Link: https://lnkd.in/dHzmxArA ###### Day 3 – 17 October 2024 Event 1: ‘HearMyVoice’ Storytelling Time: 12noon(EAT) Link: https://lnkd.in/dz3F4eGP Event 2: Policy recommendations on Women Peace and Security Time: 16h00 Link: https://lnkd.in/dFHNFxqJ

Don't miss the screening of a documentary from LEGASI "RESILIENT HEARTS - Rebuilding Lives in Gonin Gora". Oct 17, 2024 10:00 AM (Africa/Lagos) timezone https://lnkd.in/dF_xa6Wi #HearMyVoice #LEGASIMedia #Storytelling #Documentary Peace Direct kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade Global Peace Chain Search For Common Ground Nigeria

As part of creating awareness towards living in peace, our team visited some of our partners in Nasarawa - Kaduna. We could see clearly more Christians and Muslims are talking, working together and creating active dialogue platforms to build peace in their community. Local actors do have a strong hold to promote peace and #CultivateACultureofPEACE as they converge to find targeted solutions to communal conflict. Peace Direct kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade United Nations

As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Peace Day come Sept 21st let’s #CultivateACultureofPEACE. In conflict we can sustain the peace through pathways for dialogue and mediation. LEGASI serves to support especially community actors in developing their skills in Conflict Early Warning and Early Response Systems through the Local Action Fund (LAF). We are also contributing to #peacebuilding through advocacy for the revitalization of the Nigerian Emergency #112 Toll Free Line. Peace Direct PeaceTech Lab GIZ Nigeria & ECOWAS kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade United Nations #SDG16 United States Institute of Peace

International Youth Day - 2024 Theme: From Clicks to Progress: Youth Digital Pathways for Sustainable Development. This refers to the role that digital technology plays in enabling young people to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs). This concept underscores how digital tools, platforms, and education can empower youth to drive progress in areas such as education, environmental conservation, economic growth, and social equity. #Inclusion #Innovate #Entrepreneurship #SDG #CivilRights #DigitalRights #IYD2024 Peace Direct kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade Caleb Gichuhi GIZ Nigeria & ECOWAS "Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires a seismic shift – which can only happen if we empower young people and work with them as equals. " - UN Secretary-General: Antonio Guterres.

https://bit.ly/3SxvCye Towards August 1, 2024 Nationwide protest in Nigeria - #EndBadGovernment. Press conference: Tuesday, 30-07-2024. We call for a peaceful protest, but if we ask people not to protest, then what other alternative is there for people to vent out their grievances?

Where peacebuilding meets entrepreneurship. We formed a new word PEACE-PRENEUR, maybe, someday we will see this in our regular dictionaries. Happiness Simon Udele means business, #HoldOnToYourDream. Barely 3 months in training and she has produced men’s slippers and full corporate shoes. Timkat Jonah has also successfully built and fabricated a solid iron security door awaiting spray painting. According to his boss, he completed 90% of the task.   More encouragement will position them to create jobs and contribute to ameliorating unemployment in their community and in the long-term creating structures where youths are engaged in useful activities rather than violence. Thanks to Peace Direct for having faith in the dream. kaltumi Abdulazeez Kayode Oguntade Spotlight Initiative GIZ Nigeria & ECOWAS