Plateau: SAP Implementation Committee on Women, Peace and Security Charged on Synergy

State Action Plan (SAP) Implementation Committee on Women, Peace and Security have been encouraged to collaborate and work to achieve their 5 pillars action plan.

Mr. Dung Hwyere, the Program Officer of Women for Positive Peacebuilding Initiative, (WOPPI), gave the encouragement on Monday during a quarterly meeting of the third State Action Plan (SAP), Implementation Committee on Women, Peace and Security at the Plateau State Information Center, State Ministry of Information and Communication, in Jos, Plateau State.

The 5 pillars action plan are Protection and Prosecution, Prevention and Disaster Preparedness, Participation and Presentation, Crisis Management, Early Recovery and Post-Conflict Reconstruction and lastly Partnerships Coordination and Management.

According to Mr. Dung, the program is being sponsored by “Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria, (SPRING) project, supported by the UK Aid through Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO).

“This particular project is interested in women, peace and security, and especially domesticating and mainstreaming the third state action plan. And we’ve successfully been able to inaugurate the state action plan implementation committee.

“Plateau State is one of the first that has domesticated this and it is setting the ball rolling for other organizations to, other states, you know, to copy from. And so I think Plateau State is already doing very well. The organizations are doing very well and we hope that going into the next year, more effort will be put in place to make sure that this is actually done in such a way that more people will be incorporated and then we work all together.”

At the meeting, the committee reviewed what was done in the first meeting and also the progress so far by organizations who have actually done some work in terms of the five pillars.

Earlier in a welcome remark, the Commissioner of Women Affairs who was represented by the Director of Women Affairs in the State Ministry, Mrs. Maureen Dahkim, urged the SAP committee members to show commitment in actualizing the 5 pillar points to better the lives of women in the state.

The meeting which is the last for the year, has the committee members agreeing on activities to be carried out from January before the next meeting in March 2026.