By Neba Jerome

“Stop Violence Now against Women and Girls” is the EU-sponsored project being implemented by Nkumu Fed Fed. Along these lines, Nkumu Fed Fed has conceived and given birth to a new baby: “Women’s Rights Advocacy Network” (WRAN). This conceived and organized GBV network is made of young girls whom the organization has trained, empowered, and commissioned to go out as GBV ambassadors. Their vision is to have a GBV-free society for all Women and Girls. The network is creating mechanisms and working out strategies to improve the prevention, protection, and responses to GBV perpetrated against women and girls as their mission. Overall, the Women’s Rights Advocacy Network passionately strives to contribute to the fight against gender-based violence in Cameroon.

The measurable objective of WRAN is to educate and sensitize over 500,000 people on GBV against women and girls through training, social media, radio, and TV campaigns by 2027. This is in a bid to enhance local and international partnerships for the provision of GBV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services for GBV survivors. The process includes directing survivors to referral pathways and promoting GBV campaigns in schools by creating twenty-five GBV clubs in primary, secondary, and university institutions in Cameroon by 2027. In the process, it also engages in strengthening the provision of economic empowerment for Women and Girls who are GBV survivors. By its vision and strategic processes, this network is not likely to get dissolved soon, given that it has proved itself to be a game changer that has come to stay.