ActionAid Nigeria, AAN called for inclusion of Civil Society Organisations in COVID-19 strategy to contain the coronavirus in Nigeria.
ActionAid Nigeria is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with Activista Nigeria; and the CSO Network on Social Protection consisting of CSO groups across the federation.
The response is focused on protection services for women and girls, awareness, prevention and control; this we are implementing through community-based facilitators who have received safety kits and the pandemic awareness materials including megaphones, flyers, posters and banners with messages in local languages. Working with community-based facilitators is a safeguarding approach to mitigate the risk of staff and partners infecting or being infected in the response process.
The community-based facilitators are leading the awareness campaigns in the communities and providing real time updates on the situation.
“Information gaps, misconception and myths are still high amongst Nigerians, particularly at the grassroots. The concept of social distancing remains a mirage to many, campaign messages seems to omit children and persons with disabilities” accroding to the press release.
