Ogun RAAMP, Jhpiego train 45 Research Assistants on GBV survey

A John Hopkins University affiliated Consultant, Jhpiego, has partnered the Ogun State Rural Access And Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP) to train 45 Research Assistants on Gender Based violence services assessment and mapping.

The four-day training, which holds in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, was anchored by the Lead Consultant, Chioma Odueyi, who schooled the participants on the objectives of the training to the over all success of the construction of rural roads and development of market hubs along the road alignment.

She added that the philosophy of the project did not support any form of physical, emotional and psychological imbalance in the course of project execution and afterwards.

Earlier in his welcome remarks, the State Project Coordinator, Engr. Samuel A. Y. Onabanjo, underscored the need to avoid any form of abuse as a result of labour influx.

Onabanjo,  who opened the training, on Monday, alongside members of the State Project implementation unit (SPIU) called for the cooperation of all and sundry to avoid the Ugandan experience where foreign national of a particular Asian country were born after a donor-funded project ended in the Eastern African country.

Select participants who were part of the research assistants: Olufemi Abodunrin, Oluwafunmilayo Shodipo and Adelowo Adedamola lauded the quality of the course modules and deliveries by the resource persons.

“Though it is the first day, the GBV mapping assessment training is indeed educative with the days ahead promising to be more  insightful,” Shodipo stated.

For Abodunrin, the “first day looks like the fourth day in terms of the content we have bee n taken through. In all honesty, if we are deployed to the field today, we shall make the organisers mark.”