WOFAN School

WOFAN generally involves the household in its activities with the aim of improving gender relations by encouraging the involvement of men and women in project intervention at all levels. Within WOFAN, groups form themselves, ranging in size from 10 to 30. The groups which are mainly unisex with members involved in similar economic activities started with 50 groups as of 1998, 150 groups in 2000, expanded to 250 groups in 2003, 500 groups in 2009 when it commenced the USAID water project and has attained a level of 1500 functional groups in 5 Northern states of Nigeria by 2015. Presently, the 1500 rural groups have about 75% as women groups and 25% are male and youth groups, registered with WOFAN and their various state cooperatives or community development units of their LGAs.