Nigeria, Nov. 19 -- Rise Up Together, a global social impact advocacy group, has launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening gender equity and justice in Nigeria.

Supported by the multinational power solutions company Cummins Inc., the initiative, tagged the 2025 Leadership and Advocacy Accelerator, aims to equip 25 civil society leaders from the Federal Capital Territory, Rivers, Anambra, Kaduna and Nasarawa States with skills to advance the rights of women, girls and gender-nonconforming people.

This was made known in a press statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday.

The week-long Accelerator, scheduled for 16 to 22 November, is a globally recognised programme designed to build leadership, advocacy, and policy-change capacit...