Sport For Peace Programme for Children
GYDI kicked off programming in Kaduna in 2008. And from 2008 to 2012 GFP engaged 5,500 adolescent girls in a “Let Her Play Campaign” in four secondary schools with the objective of stepping up girls’ involvement in peace building processes in their communities and using sport to provide an enabling environment for Participants from different religious, ethnic and social divides to come together and play. Members of the media and civil society organisations were also included in this campaign to raise awareness and facilitate the spread of peace messages across Kaduna. Since the Let Her Play Campaign, GYDI has extended programming to over 7,500 youth and adults across more than five Local Government Areas in Kaduna state, Nigeria.
Sport For Peace Programmes for Youth
(Adolescent Girls)
Kaduna Nigeria
From 2013 to 2015 GYDI implemented ten (10) Sport For Peace Programmes For Youth (SPPY) in three programming framework cycles across four secondary schools. The first cycle engaged 150 Participants, the second cycle engaged 150 Participants and the third cycle engaged 75 Participants between the ages of 11 and 19, 18 ethnic groups and two major religions. From the monitoring and evaluation data of the programmes, the outcome indicator showed significant improvement in the Participants’ leadership skills, confidence and level of participation in school structures. For instance, in Government Girls Secondary School Doka, the data analysis showed a 60% improvement in participants rating of their leadership skills, while there was a decrease in participants rating their leadership skills as low (-40%) or medium (-24%).
Empowerment For Peace Programme 2013
Simultaneously, from 2013 to 2017, four cycles of Empowerment For Peace Programmes (EPP) were implemented with 60 women aged 25 years and above, from 8 ethnic groups and two major religions; and in 20 selected communities in the Northern and Southern part of Kaduna state. The EPPs addressed the lack of women’s empowerment and inclusion in decision-making at the community level which has a direct effect on community level conflict transformation and peace building. For the EPPs, the monitoring and evaluation data on the outcome indicator showed an improvement in the Participants’ level of inclusion in decision-making at the community level. There was also a significant improvement of 30% in terms of the number of women who say they felt more equipped for decision making as well as a 33% improvement in number of women who felt more confident to participate in decision making. There was also a 40% improvement in terms of the number of women who felt that community heads allow women to take part in decision-making. Data also showed a 60% improvement in the number of women outside the programme who said women are now included in decision making in the community.
Sport For Peace Programme for Youth (Male Youth)
In 2015, a Sport For Peace Programme for Youth (SPPY) was implemented with 30 male youth leaders; aged 18 – 25 from 8 ethnic groups and two major religions (Christianity and Islam). The youth came from 10 communities from the Northern and Southern part of Kaduna state. The programme was aimed at equipping the participants with conflict transformation skills and fostering co-operation among youth from different divides. From monitoring and evaluation, the outcome indicator showed an improvement in the level of conflict transformation skills of the participants. It is showed a slight improvement of a 22% increase in the number of Target Group rating their knowledge of conflict transformation skills as high.
In 2015, an Advocacy for Peace Programme (ADPP) was implemented in the Kaduna State College of Education (KDSCoE), Gidan Waya, Kaduna State. The programme engaged 40 students (20 females and 20 male) aged 19 – 27 from the schools of languages, art and social sciences from 14 ethnic groups and two major religions. The programme aimed at equipping the students with advocacy skills to address and transform conflict situations in the college without resorting to violence. The outcome indicator showed an improvement in the level of confidence and advocacy skills. In particular, a 20% and 9% increase in the number of students who said they were very confident and have many skills to participate in decision-making in the College (+20%) and the increase in those who said they were extremely confident and gained diverse skills (+9) demonstrating a general slightly positive trend among the programme Participants.