Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative
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Grants
11
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Total Awarded
$4,659,500
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Years
2005 - 2023
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Categories
Grants
2023 (1 year 6 months)
$320,000
Founded in 1999, Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a nonprofit organization committed to increasing women's access to justice by actualizing women's legal rights in private and public spaces. The previous award to WRAPA put women's voices and accountability demands on political party agendas in 2019 and 2023 and popularized the National Gender Policy, leading up to the 2023 general elections. This final award is part of a package of three electoral reform grants to WRAPA, Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC), and Peering Advocacy and Advancement Centre in Africa (PAACA). In collaboration with PLAC and PAACA, WRAPA builds on the lessons from the 2023 elections by advocating for inclusive and accountable electoral reforms. WRAPA works with other Joinbodi cohort members and the National Assembly Gender Technical Unit to facilitate the analysis of past electoral reports to ensure that inclusive and forward-thinking recommendations are unearthed and used for advocacy. WRAPA also mobilizes women’s groups and disability rights organizations to participate and advocate for a more open and accountable electoral system. The award is expected to increase the participation of disadvantaged voices, build community accountability practices, and strengthen the electoral system.
2022 ( 5 months)
$37,500
Founded in 1999, Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a nonprofit organization committed to increasing women's access to justice by actualizing women's legal rights in private and public spaces. In this project, WRAPA is implementing activities that contribute to electoral integrity including convening townhall meetings of stakeholders; engaging political parties, anti-corruption agencies, and the electoral management body; and educating the public on the monetization of the electoral process. This project contributes to electoral integrity and accountability.
2021 (3 years 5 months)
$1,165,000
Founded in 1999, Women's Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a nonprofit organization committed to increasing women's access to justice by actualizing women's legal rights in private and public spaces. The previous award to WRAPA put women's voices on the agenda of political parties and candidates leading up to the 2019 general elections. This award supports the institutionalization of accountability and anti-corruption by mobilizing and amplifying the voices of women leaders and women's groups to demand commitment to accountability and anti-corruption in order to improve governance in Nigeria. By mobilizing women's groups and fostering dialogue up to and beyond the 2023 elections, the project encourages widespread demand for accountability and social inclusion, including affirmative action, and reinforces an important foundation for anti-corruption in Nigeria. This project is implemented in coordination with other Foundation grantees. The award is expected to strengthen the participation of marginalized voices, build community accountability practices, and contribute to a reduction in corruption.
2020 ( 6 months)
$50,000
Founded in 1999, WRAPA is committed to protecting the legal rights of women, in private and public, through mobilization, sensitization, and the provision of legal services and other support. The award enables WRAPA to work in a coalition of women’s rights organizations, and with the Ministry of Women Affairs to educate the public, advocate for basic needs, and protect women and children from abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2018 (3 years)
$1,062,000
Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a women-focused, non-governmental organization whose mission is actualizing the legal rights of women in private and public spaces. This award supports the institutionalization of accountability and anti-corruption by mobilizing and amplifying the voices of women leaders and women’s groups to speak out and demand commitment to accountability and anti-corruption in order to improve governance in Nigeria. By mobilizing women’s groups and fostering dialogue, the project encourages widespread demand for accountability and reinforces an important foundation for anti-corruption in Nigeria.
2016 (3 years 7 months)
$225,000
Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 that works to increase access to justice for women across all three legal systems in Nigeria: common, customary and Shari’a law. It provides legal aid and counseling, adult literacy classes, civic education programs, and skills training for women’s economic empowerment. WRAPA seeks support to consolidate its intervention for strengthening human rights protections within Islamic Family Law (IFL) in seven northwestern Nigerian states that builds on a strand of research and practice that began with MacArthur funding in 2006. In this phase, WRAPA seeks to support the creation of institutional frameworks for deepening the impact and sustainability of changes in the practice and administration of IFL. The award will (a) support advocacy for the adoption and scaling up of a model Khutbah (sermon) tool to improve access to justice and protection for women in IFL; (b) promote the use of the institution of Hakamain (arbitration) to reduce the challenges facing women seeking redress for rights violations; (c) provide technical support for reforms in the practice and administration of IFL; (d) build the capacity and knowledge of Muslim scholars on IFL; and (e) engage in strategic litigation to enforce the rights of women.
2014 (2 years 7 months)
$100,000
Women’s Right Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1999. It works to increase access to justice for women across all three legal systems in Nigeria: common law, traditional law, and Shariah law. The purpose of this grant is to mobilize citizens to call for accountability from the Nigerian government and responsible agencies and officials to rescue and return nearly 300 young girls who were kidnapped from a school by Boko Haram insurgents and to include a citizens’ perspective in the battle against insurgents. The recommended grant will support the coordination with government agencies; development of coordinated citizen responses to the insurgency; production of campaign and mobilization materials; travel and meetings.
2013 (3 years 7 months)
$750,000
Women’s Right Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1999. It is a membership organization of men and women, with over 15,000 registered members. It works to increase access to justice for women across all three legal systems in Nigeria - common, traditional, and Shariah law. This grant will support the construction of a Resource Centre and the purchase of equipment and furniture. The Resource Centre will provide research and library facilities, office spaces, temporary shelter for abused girls and women, a conference hall, and an auditorium.
2010 (5 years 8 months)
$350,000
In support of a project on Islamic Family Law (over three years).
2010 (5 years 8 months)
$350,000
In support of a project on Islamic Family Law (over three years).
2005 (3 years 9 months)
$250,000
In support of Islamic Family Law and Practices in Northwestern Nigeria (over three years).
