Engaging internally displaced women in Nigeria in smart agriculture to minimize vulnerability to sex and gender based violence

Armed conflicts have displaced thousands of households and put millions of Nigerians in the internally displaced persons’ (IDP) camps in the last 10 years. As supply of food, healthcare and shelter run short of their demands, people in the IDP camps continue to face humanitarian crises. Women and girls face a series of sex and gender based violence in the hands of security operatives working in the IDP camps as the women and girls struggle to get food. The objective of the proposal development study is to examine if training the women in IDP camps in smart agricultural practice will minimize their vulnerability to these sex and gender based violence as they will be able to have a source of income to buy some of their family needs while in the IDP camps. Four (4) IDP camps will be randomly selected, and divided into 2 groups (intervention and control). Randomly, 50 women and girls will be in each IDP camp, totaling 100 samples. At the baseline, structured questionnaires will be administered to the samples on information of life experience in the camp.  Training on smart agricultural practice will be organized for the intervention group for 3 months. After training, pilot or full scale study will follow. The intervention group will be provided with crop input materials to start farming. Thereafter, data on gender abuse will be generated from the intervention and control groups for impact analysis.