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born 1956 Nigeria
Ngozi Patricia Iwere (born August 12, 1956) is a Nigerian social activist and community development specialist.She founded and directs the Community Life Project (CLP), an organization that advocates for health education and civic engagement, with a focus on HIV/AIDS prevention and women's reproductive health.
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We needed to get the men to get involved and to change their habits and behavior becausethe women didn’t seem to have enough negotiating power.
We have done a lot of work in the area of health, sexuality, and livelihood.
At that time, it was not popular to engage men in the development world.
We have been working with grassroots organizations.
The local government level because it is the level that is closest to the people where their influence will be most felt.
Nigeria is a platform which we started and launchedin 2010.
We can come together all over the country under this grassroots movement and engage with government on different levels.
I was already engaged along withother women in starting the first real feminist’s organization.
The power dynamics within the families and community did not favor women, and I felt we needed to engage with men.
We started a society for women and AIDS in Africa, along with health professionals and a few colleagues who were in WIN.
Those we call grassroots civil society,organizations, mutual interest groups, artisan groups, over the years, since we started community Life Projects.
I was very convinced that we needed to engage with men and when I didn’t get much support for that.
I joined with a group of women who felt that we needed to respond and to do something to protect
That was the period when we were talking about how to get women in development.
These groups who represent voices that are excluded from decision-making tables as far as civic engagements was concerned, that they find a place around the table.
We have worked assiduously with us at CLP over these past three decades to improve elections and local governance all over the country.
They are the unsung heroes and heroines of our tedious nation-building efforts
I found myself starting to engage on health issues, especially HIV/AIDS.In the 80’s and early 90’s HIV/AIDS was a very big existential threat in Africa.
Thatwas how westarted Community Life Project in 1992.
We’ve had in this country,Women in Nigeria, WIN.2 I had been the national coordinator of WIN.
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