Civil Society for Elimination of Gender-Based Violence (CS4EGBV) Project/Afrihealth Optonet Association
GBV Symposium in January 2021: Short citations on Lead
Speaker, Panelists and Moderator
Professor Hayat Gomma, Egypt (Lead Speaker)
Dr. Hayat Gomma is a
Full Professor at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. She received her PhD from
Cairo University (Egypt) in 1998. She is a native of Egypt with international
research and capacity development experience in Egypt, Sultanate of Oman,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan, United Kingdom, Libya, and Nigeria.
She was the Head of the Nursing Science Department, Faculty of Allied Health
Sciences, College of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University. She is currently the
post-graduate program coordinator for the department. She was chairperson of
the Department of Maternal and Child Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Mut'ah
University, Jordan and chairperson of the Department of Maternal and Child
Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University. She was also the Director
of the Educational Development Centre, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University.
She worked as Assistant Manager of the Manpower Development Project for Nurses
MOHP, Egypt in Cairo. She is an executive member of the maternal, adolescent,
and child healthcare initiative in Nigeria. She is a reviewer for the
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. She is the Northern
Nigerian ambassador to the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Care Foundation and a
consultant for the USAID Integrative reproductive health services project. She
is a committee member for the evaluation, review, and upgrading of
teaching/learning materials for the course in Midwifery and Community Health,
Technical Institute of Nursing, Cairo & Alexandria (World Health
Organization); and a committee member for reviewing and upgrading the
maternity, community, and pediatric nursing book for the Technical Secondary
School of Nursing Book (JSI Project). She has trained as a specialist in
Maternal and Child health for USAID. She has received several awards in Egypt
and Nigeria for research excellence and has published widely in the field.
Ms Thina Maphosa, Zimbabwe (Panelist)
Ms Thina Maphosa is delighted to be part of
this “noble cause to end GBV against women and girls especially in Africa”. She is from Plumtree Town in Zimbabwe,
working for a youth focused organisation, YES Trust Zimbabwe whose mandate is
to encourage youth participation, raise awareness through multimedia strategy
on GBV, safe migration, SRHR, HIV/AIDS as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. Ms Thina is also overseer of the
implementation of the UN Spotlight Initiative pillar 6 on Social Movement
building and the spoke person for the organisation in the UN Generation
Equality Coalition on GBV.
Azubike Michael Nwachukwu, Nigeria (Panelist)
Mr. Azubike Michael
Nwachukwu is a Communicator, Humanitarian and Social
Entrepreneur. A 2020 Diplomatic fellow of Federation of International Gender
and Human Rights (FIGHR) New York, USA on Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV),
Michael is the founder of Grow Cassava, Palm tree and Farm Produce for Cash
(GCPPC). GCPPC is a circle of farmers, transporters, retailer &
distributors working under Gender lens to empower women especially those with
disabilities because they are the most vulnerable in our society. He is
passionate about UN-SDGs No.2, 3, 5, 6, 8 10 & 13. Mr. Nwachukwu is projecting
the Generation of Children, Youth & Women to help Nigeria to regain its
Glory as Food Basket of Africa.
Sophie SHIMA, Belgium/Burundi (Panelist)
Sophie SHIMA lives in Belgium, having arrived
from Burundi since 1999. She holds a Masters in
Development studies from the "Université Libre de Bruxelles" in Belgium in 2016. Since 2011, she decided, with
friends, to create non-profit organization called Pont de la Solidarité or
Bridge of Solidarity; whose main activity was and is still to support migrants in their
administrative procedures and in their integration process. From 2013 to
2017, Ms Sophie was
working with the Federal Ministry of Justice as a consultant, and as the
guardian of about 30 unaccompanied foreign minors from 10 to 18 years, till the moment
they get their majority. The young men and women were from Guinea-Conakry,
Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Albania, Pakistan,
Russia, Afghanistan. In November 2018, she went to
Uganda, and met several women who were refugees and had been raped. After the discussion back to Belgium, they created in
their locality in Uganda, a community-based organization called "Restore
Dignity", which is registered. They have women, girls and men; and provide medical support, and put in place several activities. Since then, she is the Coordinator of
Restore Dignity for advocacy/fundraising/partnerships. Today, when Ms Sophie listens to the
testimonies and reads several
reports, its a dramatic fact in Burundi since 2015, with the beginning of the political-security crisis, that rape in used
as a weapon. The
challenge she says,
is how could we effectively support survivors who are temporary refugees in
the host countries, in their long healing process?
Alhaji Abdul -
Rashid Imoro, Ghana (Panelist)
Alhaji Abdul - Rashid Imoro works for
Savana Signatures in Ghana as the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Program Manager. He is an accredited Master Trainer of Comprehensive Sexuality
Education by Rutgers and belongs to a community of SRHR experts Globally.
Alhaji Abdul has over years working experience in this position and has trained
more than 4000 Teachers and Peer Educators on Sexuality Education, and more
than 2000 Health professionals on Youth Friendly Service Delivery. He is
currently pursuing an MPhil in Adolescent Reproductive Health and Rights at the
University for Development Studies in Ghana.
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, Nigeria (Moderator)
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje is a
Health Economist and Development advocate. He obtained a certificate in ‘Gender and
Sustainable Development’ from African Capacity Building Foundation in 2012. He
has been a consistent gender equality champion for a decade. Recently, Uzodinma
was Convener/Moderator
of ‘Taming the Monster: Ending
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls (SGBVAWG) during and after
COVID-19 Pandemic’ – a virtual Town Hall Meeting organized by Afrihealth Optonet
Association for ‘16 Days of Activism’ on 11-12-2020. He coordinates the nascent ‘Civil Society for
Elimination of Gender-Based Violence (CS4EGBV) Project. Dr. Adirieje is the author
of the pamphlet ‘Female Circumcision
(Female Genital Mutilation): 40 Dangerous Effects Parents and Relations Must
Know’, 1999 (catalogued at the Media/Materials Clearinghouse of the Johns
Hopkins University, USA, for worldwide distribution, as M/MC ID#: PL NGA 318). Adirieje
is National Team Supervisor and Data Collection Team Leader of the ‘Roll-out of
the Malaria Matchbox Equity Assessment among Internally Displaced Persons/Women
and Refugees in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe states, 2020’, funded by the
Global Fund and implemented by Impact Sante Afrique. He was keynote speaker on
‘Mitigating the dangers and risks for Nigerian women entrepreneurs post
COVID-19’ https://www.anwbn.org.ng/anwbn-webinar-mitigating-the-dangers-and-risks-for-nigerian-women-entrepreneurs-post-covid-19/ organized by Association of Nigerian Women in Business
on 29-04-2020; lead speaker on ‘Families in Development: Beijing +25 and the
COVID-19’, organized by Zion Cliff Organization during 2020 International Day
of the Families’ https://zioncliff.org/4032-2/ on 15-05-2020. Adirieje was Project Director and Lead
Facilitator for training of 1,620 women, girls, youths
and community leaders from 81 communities/local-government-areas in Nigeria’s
nine oil producing states in Niger Delta region to stop violence/unrest in oil
communities and engage government on development; during the ‘Sustainable Citizen Participation in
Nigeria’s Niger Delta project’ which was fully funded by the United Nations
Democracy Fund and implemented by Afrihealth Optonet Association, 2017-2018. He
was Programme
Manager - Advocacy & Communications,
and Gender and HIV/AIDS adviser/focal person at Health Reform Foundation
of Nigeria (HERFON), 2005-2009. He’s Signatory, Safer Sooner: Toward a Global Binding Norm to End
Violence Against Women and Girls. CV link http://druzodinmadirieje.blogspot.com/2020/; Video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuiefvO0gVg
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