Ongoing Event

  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

Picture Gallery of Previous and Ongoing Events

On May 28, 2025, CEADER convened a leadership sensitization session at Amuwo Odofin Senior High School.
The program focused on empowering female students to recognize their leadership potential and embrace the qualities that make a true leader. Through interactive discussions, the students engaged deeply, gaining confidence to lead in their schools, homes, and communities.
CEADER remains committed to nurturing the next generation of young women leaders.
On November 25, 2024, CEADER sensitized the vibrant female students of FESTAC College Senior Secondary School on leadership as part of the kickoff of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
This empowering moment with the teenage girls set the tone for the 16 Days of Activism, reinforcing the message that leadership is not about age or status but about using one’s leadership characteristics to create a safer, more inclusive world.
Together, we are building a generation of leaders equipped to stand against gender-based violence and advocate for equality and justice.

CEADER convened a HeforShe activity at SaltHill Secondary School in FESTAC. The aim of the program was to engage boys and young men as agents of change in resisting the culture of violence against women and girls, and support women and girls for leadership positions.

On October 11, 2022, CEADER convened a one-day Gender and Leadership Sensitization Program for teenage girls at Dr. Soyemi Secondary School in FESTAC Town. The sensitization was organized to commemorate the International Day of the Girl Child with the theme “Our Time is Now, Our Rights, Our Future”. The sensitization event sought to raise the participants’ awareness on their leadership capacity by their identification of the characteristics of a leader through a participatory process that convinced the girls that they are indeed leaders today and in the future.

On June 21, 2022, WLP and CEADER commenced a 4 day in-person National Institute on Youth Leaders, Political Participation and Technology for young people in Nigeria. This institute follows the virtual Africa Regional Institute for Young People that was convened in April 2022 which involved young leaders from 8 African Country. The Nigerian institute brings together young people under age 30 and seeks to strengthen the capacity of young people in Nigeria to effectively engage in democratic governance in a sustainable manner. Specific objectives of the institute are to redefine leadership as inclusive, transformational and horizontal; to strengthen participants’ capacity to utilize various social and conventional media tools for effective communications; and build participants’ capacity to the replicate training and advocacy projects developed during the institute.

To mark the International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2021, CEADER organized a sensitization program at Jomal Secondary School, FESTAC. The program sensitized the students on the concept of human rights and linked the full realization of rights to women/girls involvement in leadership.

On July 15, 2021, CEADER organized a leadership sensitization program for teenage girls at Salt Hill Secondary School to mark the World Youth Skills Day and to build the leadership skills of young girls.

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
On March 13, 2025, CEADER organized a one-day sensitization program, bringing together female students from three schools: Government Senior College, Girls Senior High, Lagos Baptist Senior College (all in Agege, Lagos).
The session focused on identifying the characteristics of a leader, working with students to recognize that leadership is not just about titles but a responsibility they should embrace. Through interactive discussions, the students discovered that they already possessed a good number of the leadership characteristics which they jointly identified and listed. CEADER concluded the program by urging the students to lead in their daily activities- at home, in school, in their communities, amongst others.
True leadership begins with self-awareness and action!

On November 8, 2024, CEADER visited FESTAC Senior Grammar School, a public school in Lagos state to engage the female teenage students in a sensitization program on Leadership. Through interactive discussions, each girl began to recognize her own leadership potential, emphasizing that leadership is not about titles or positions, but about embodying the characteristics of a leader which the students identified and listed in the course of the sensitization. We aim to contribute to shaping a generation of strong, confident girls ready to lead now and in the future!

CEADER convened a one day sensitization program for selected teenage girls in FESTAC Town with the theme: “Raising Young Advocates for Best Practices on Health”. The program sensitized participants on leadership that is inclusive aiming to raise young leaders who drive change on matters related to health in their community. This program was done under the Right to Health thematic area of CEADERs focus.

The sensitization especially focused on listing/identifying the qualities of a leader, speaking-out against all forms of GBV and raising young leaders in the pandemic and beyond. This program is one of CEADER’s activities to mark the ongoing 2020 16 Days of Activism against GBV.

A skill building project organized by CEADER  to build the capacity of selected girls from poor homes to earn an income to boost their ability to access digital space and learning. The girls were trained on how to produce liquid soap, pastries and slippers beading.

On Friday, November 27, 2020 CEADER organized a leadership sensitization program for students of Jomal Secondary School, FESTAC, Town, Lagos.

Grassroot workshop on Women, Peace and Security in Gombe, Northeast Nigeria.

CEADER’s program officers during a Regional Training of Trainers (RTOT) on Women, Peace, and Security in Beirut, Lebanon.

CEADER’s Executive Director participating in African Women’s Development Funds (AWDF) Boot Camp.

PROGRAM: Women’s Rights and Advocacy
CEADER’s program officer join other organizations to mark the international peace day with a Mega walk organized by Lagos Women2030.

PROGRAM: Women’s Rights and Advocacy
Women’s Human Rights Activist from across seven (7) African countries during the African Regional Peer to Peer Institute on Capacity Building for Family law Reform organized by CEADER and Women Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP) in Lagos Nigeria.

PROGRAM: Women in Leadership and Community Development
A Cross section of grassroot organization and Women’s Human Right organization working in the conflict areas of NorthEast Nigeria attending a Training of Trainers on Empowering Women for Peace, Inclusive Leadership, Security and Human Right organized by CEADER and Women Learning Partnership for rights, Developments and Peace (WLP) in Abuja, Nigeria.

In March 2018 CEADER and Women Learning Partnership for rights, Developments and Peace (WLP) organized a Training of Trainers workshop on women’s political participation and Leadership. The training took place in Lagos Nigeria.

Participants and facilitators at National Training of Trainers workshop on Leadership and Political participation organized by CEADER and Women Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace.

PROGRAM: Women in Leadership and Community Development
Participants and facilitators at National Training of Trainers workshop on Women’s Human Rights Knowledge to Challenge Violence Against Women.

PROGRAM: Women in Leadership and Community Development
Training on Leadership for Secondary school female Students to mark the 16 Days of Activism on Violence against Women (VAW).

PROGRAM: Women’s Rights and Advocacy
CEADER’s Executive Director attending a session on The Voice of Women 91.7fm full Breakfast Radio program. The topic of discussion was Gender Equality: Myth and Perception.

CEADER’s team and its research partners on Family Law reforms in Nigeria.

PROGRAM: Women in Leadership and Community Development
CEADER/WLP TOT on Women’s Leadership and Political Participation.

PROGRAM: Economic Empowerment
Skills Acquisition Program to empower women economically organized by CEADER and AWDF – African Women’s Development Fund

PROGRAM: Economic Empowerment
Skills Acquisition Program to empower women economically organized by CEADER and AWDF – African Women’s Development Fund.

PROGRAM: Economic Empowerment
Skills Acquisition Program to empower women economically organized by CEADER and AWDF – African Women’s Development Fund.

PROGRAM: Women’s Rights and Advocacy

PROGRAM: Women in Leadership and Community Development
Second Edition of Training of trainers on Empowering Women for Peace, Security, Inclusive Leadership and Human Rights.

PROGRAM: Economic Empowerment
Skills Acquisition Program to empower women economically organised by CEADER and supported by AWDF- African Women’s Development Fund and GPA – Global Philanthropy Alliance.

PROGRAM: Right to Health
Project to Promote Good Health Practice and HIV/AID Prevention in slum communities in Lagos, organized by CEADER in partnership with AWDF – African Women’s Development Fund.

International Women's Day 2025