Social Justice & Equity

Nigeria has the laws. What it does not yet have, in every community and institution, is a society that lives them. For women, violence remains both a daily reality and a tool of control. For persons with disabilities, exclusion is written into the design of institutions, physical spaces, and social expectations. For both, the gap between constitutional guarantee and lived experience is wide, and the path to narrowing it is neither simple nor short. The Foundation's Social Justice and Equity programme takes the long view: changing the norms, strengthening the institutions, and equipping the advocates through which genuine equity becomes not an aspiration but an expectation. At its centre is a conviction that the people most often pushed to the margins are not the problem to be solved. They are the leaders through whom this country builds itself.

Four Nigerian universities now have adopted safeguarding policies and independent platforms for reporting sexual harassment — developed in partnership with students, staff, and civil society.