International Center for Environmental health & Development (ICEHD) is a non-governmental, non-profit international organisation established in May 2004, and registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission as an incorporated Trustee under part ‘C’ of the Companies and Allied Matters Act 1990.

ICEHD was started primarily to promote health (especially the health of women and girls), advance socio-economic inclusion and development and empower local marginalised women, girls and vulnerable individuals and communities through education, empowerment and capacity building to confront and participate in the design and implementation of policies, actions, practices and programs that affect their health, development and quality of life.

Our project seeks to provide economic empowerment for excluded, exploited and marginalised young women farmers in Badagry, Lagos state, Nigeria. These women are bearing disproportionate economic burden due to sociocultural barriers and climate change, leading to loss of opportunities, markets, and profits, worsened by COVID-19. These barriers include early child marriage, lack of equal access to resources, training, education and participation with men for livelihood, which hinders economic opportunities and absence of a secure means of sustenance. These burdens accelerate poverty, and poor wellbeing, without access to reskilling. Our proposed activities will address these issues by providing sustainable solutions for young rural women farmers to access resources and be equipped with informed knowledge, skill and implements to empower them economically to achieve resilience, sustainable income, economic justice and the capacity to project their voices against exploitation and marginalisation.

The main objective is to give women a voice by improving women’s’ access to skills and resources and economic opportunities, that can enable them gain employment, earn a living, and put these to use in the job market or through entrepreneurship, for economic growth, increased food security and sustainable income.

The change we want to see happen is for women and girls to participate equally with men and boys in accessing resources and opportunities for economic advancement.