Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency (LNWDA)

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Organisation Type:

Non-Governmental Organization

Contact details:

Objectives:

LNWDA promotes justice, peace, gender equality and community empowerment through advocacy on women and children’s rights; promotion of integral human development; provision of training, counselling and capacity building support; through sharing information and by working in collaboration with other development organizations. 

Focus areas:

The organization aims and objectives remain the same as when it first started. It is based on a human rights based approach.

Expertise:

• Monitoring and evaluation
• Advocacy
• Lobbying
• Research
• Gender and Human Rights Training
• Counselling services
• Public education

Activities and Projects:

• Provision of counselling services in the 13 district of Bougainvillle funded by NZAID.
• LNWDA has a network of 28 counsellors and 91 volunteers in the 13 districts of Bougainville.
• A 20 minute radio program every Thursday on Radio Bougainville on human rights, women and children’s rights, domestic violence, rape, incest and political empowerment for women.
• Gender & Human Rights provided for local magistrates, chiefs, police, nurses, women leaders, youth leaders, teachers.
• LNWDA houses a Buka Women and Children’s Referral Desk where Police, Nurses & Doctors, Welfare, NGOs providing counselling services work collectively to assist victims.
• Children’s Rights Project funded by UNICEF and which targets schools in Bougainville, particularly in Central Bougainville.

Countries and Scope of the activities:

Province wide, we work in the 13 districts of Bougainville.