About Us
Empowering women and girls through innovative research and impactful solutions in Nigeria.
About SafePath Nigeria
Founded in 2022, SafePath Alliance for Women and Girls (SafePath Nigeria) is a Nigerian non-profit organization committed to advancing the rights, dignity, and opportunities of women and girls. Established with a vision to create safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces, SafePath has grown into a trusted voice for gender justice, working to challenge harmful norms, dismantle structural barriers, and champion equality. At SafePath Nigeria, we believe that sustainable progress for women and girls demands gender-transformative approaches that challenge unequal power dynamics, promote inclusive leadership, foster collaborative partnerships and influence policy.
As we evolve, SafePath Nigeria is transforming into a research- and innovation-driven organisation committed to producing knowledge that not only informs policies, programs, and practices but also transforms them to be inclusive, equitable, and just. Our focus is on pioneering research, fostering innovation, and building knowledge platforms that amplify the lived experiences of women and girls while driving systemic change. By combining grassroots engagement with academic inquiry, SafePath Nigeria bridges the gap between communities, policymakers, and institutions, ensuring that gender research translates into transformative impact with women and girls free from violence, valued as leaders, and empowered to thrive.
SafePath Alliance for Women and Girls (SafePath Nigeria) aspires to become Nigeria’s leading hub for gender research and innovation. Guided by feminist inquiry and evidence‑based solutions, we are working toward a future where harmful norms are challenged, policies are informed by credible research, and transformative pathways are created to empower women and girls to thrive and drive sustainable change.
Our Mission
To inspire hope in women and advance human rights for all by driving research, fostering innovation, and developing evidence-based solutions that empower communities and shape sustainable change.
Our Vision
A Nigeria and West Africa where every woman and girl lives safely, participates fully, and shapes the systems that govern her life — informed by evidence she helped create.
Our Core Values
SafePath Nigeria is guided by six core values that shape who we are and how we work. These values inform our relationships within the organisation, with funders, stakeholders, communities, and partner institutions.
1. Empowerment
We advance the agency of women and girls by equipping them with knowledge, evidence, and opportunities to thrive as leaders and changemakers.
2. Innovation
We embrace creativity and forward-thinking approaches, using research and technology to design transformative solutions to the challenges facing women and girls.
3. Integrity
We uphold transparency, accountability, and ethical standards in our research, advocacy, and partnerships, ensuring trust and credibility in everything we do.
4. Collaboration
We build inclusive partnerships across communities, institutions, and sectors, fostering collective learning and amplifying voices to drive lasting impact.
5. Equity
We are committed to dismantling systemic barriers and promoting fairness, inclusion, and justice, ensuring that research and program outcomes benefit women, men, girls, and boys equitably.
6. Evidence‑Driven Impact
We ground our advocacy, programmes, and innovations in rigorous, gender-responsive research, ensuring that solutions are credible, sustainable, and truly transformative.
Our Goals
To build SafePath Nigeria as a credible research and innovation hub — pioneering gender-responsive knowledge, fostering innovation, and building platforms that amplify the lived experiences of women and girls while driving systemic change.
Our goals are aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, contributing to Zero Poverty, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Decent Work and Economic Growth grounded in evidence of what actually works for Nigerian women and girls.
Long Term Goals
• To generate and share research and knowledge that advances transformative learning processes promoting just, inclusive and equitable societies for all.
• To produce gender-responsive evidence that advances human rights, worker rights, access to justice and development for women and girls.
• To conduct and support research that promotes the rights of women and children including PWDs and strengthens advocacy for gender equality through locally driven, evidence-based solutions.
Objectives
• To generate evidence that strengthens advocacy for the protection of women, children, persons with disabilities (PWDs) and other vulnerable groups from violence.
• To produce research and implement programs that advocates for optimal and safe education, development and wellbeing of the girl child.
• To conduct research and implement programs that promotes the inclusion of women and youth in all levels of political participation and decision making.
• To generate evidence and implement programs that advocate for safe, responsive and gender-friendly work environments for women and girls across all spheres of work.
• To produce knowledge and implement programs on climate change vulnerability among communities and advance programmes that promote climate resilience across local communities.
• To conduct locally driven research processes and programs that document and improve the health and wellbeing of women and children
• To build research alliances that strengthen enduring democratic organisations and communities for women and girls, men and boys.
How We Work
Our research‑driven approaches challenge conventional thinking, acknowledging that complex issues rarely have a single solution and that meaningful progress requires engaging diverse stakeholders to build shared understanding and co‑created strategies.
- Intersectional lens : Across all our work, we ground our practice in collaborative and inclusive research. That recognizes the complexity of lived experiences and expands the boundaries of what and who counts as “data” and “stakeholders.” By encouraging participation, we generate evidence that supports equity, inclusion, and challenges traditional power structures.
- Work in partnership: We partner with activists and researchers to generate new knowledge about the deep structures of inequality and discriminatory social norms. Through innovative approaches and practical tools, we support transformation within organizations and communities. We emphasize that lasting change is rooted at the community and grassroots level, and our work is dedicated to strengthening the capacity and resilience of community‑based and grassroots organizations.
Our Projects
Explore our most recent, research‑driven projects currently being implemented. Each initiative reflects our commitment to advancing gender equity, generating evidence, and fostering innovative solutions that empower women and girls while shaping sustainable change.
Project Title: | Renewed Women Leadership and Voice Project (RWLV)- ONGOING |
Objective: | To strengthen feminist knowledge and evidence base for gender equality, enhance the capacity of women’s rights organizations to use evidence for action and improve the quality and effectiveness of advocacy for women’s rights in Nigeria |
Duration: | 2025 – 2029. |
Location: | Benue, Cross River, Lagos, Enugu, Bauchi, Kwara, |
Funder | ActionAid Nigeria |
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