Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Indigenous women
Information and communication technologies
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Men and boys
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Research
Service provision
The girl child
Trafficking in women and girls
Violence against women
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and armed conflict
Women and health
Women and poverty
Women and the economy
Women and the environment
Women and the media
Women and the media
Women in power and decision-making
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| Geographic scope: |
National
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| Country of activity: |
Nigeria
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
1996 |
| Organizational structure: |
GADA has an Advisory Board; a seven-member Board of Directors, and three Technical Committees of which the Chairpersons are also Board members. The three technical committees are those of Management, Programmes and Research. The Executive Director heads the Management Committee, which oversees the day-to-day running of the organisation. As a national organisation, GADA has four offices with two located in the South-South, one in the South West and another in Abuja. Apart from the Lagos Office which is headed by the Executive Director, each of the other offices is headed by a Director who is also a member of the Board of Directors. The Board meets twice yearly to review the performance of the organisation, address issues of funding, determine whether programmes are consistent with the organisation’s mission and assess the work of committees. Committees require the approval of the Board to operate but this is secured through an annual strategic meeting, where programmes are developed and endorsed. Other matters for decision-making go through committees, and each committee has five members to support its work, most of them women. The Lagos office which is also the Head Office of the organization is entrusted with publication and networking in addition to general programme/project initiation and implementation. It operates with full time staff and volunteers headed by the most senior Director who reports directly to the Executive Director/Management Committee. The Abuja office doubles as the Advocacy and Policy Center, the Port Harcourt office handles GADA’s programmes in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, while the GADA Center for Training and Development Activities Calabar (CETDA-GADA) implements specified field projects and training programmes. |
| Number and type of members: |
GADA has an advisory Board, a seven-member Board of Directors, and three technical committees of which the chairpersons are Board members. The three technical committees are those of Management, Programmes and Research. The Executive Director heads the Management Committee, which oversees the day-to-day running of the organization. GADA has four offices, each of which is headed by a woman Director who is also a member of the Board of Directors. The Board meets twice yearly to review the performance of the organization, address issues of funding, determine whether programmes are consistent with the organisation’s mission and assess the work of committees. Committees require the approval of the Board to operate but this is secured through an annual strategic meeting, where programmes are developed and endorsed. Other matters for decision-making go through committees, and each committee has five members to support its work, most of them women |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
GADA is part of the network on the National Coalition on Affirmative Action (A.A) and has participated effectively in Public Hearings on the Equal Opportunities Bill/ CEDAW Bill at the National Assembly and some State Assemblies in the Niger-Delta GADA is |
| Funding structure: |
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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