Leadership
A sustained voice for women's participation.
NIWA's leadership brings community experience into public advocacy and keeps the organisation focused on the practical effects of policy and development.
Founder & team lead
Nancy Oko-Onyia
Women’s-rights advocate · Community-development leader
Nancy Oko-Onyia founded NIWA and has represented the organisation in community, civil-society and public-policy settings over many years.
Her public record spans women’s human-rights advocacy, participation in governance, gender-responsive budgeting and tax justice. Across these issues, the consistent concern is whether policy is understandable, fair and responsive to women and grassroots communities.
She continues to lead NIWA’s work from Abakaliki, building cooperation among community groups, civil society, public institutions and the media.
“Advocacy must reach the people most affected by a decision—and give them a meaningful way to respond.”
NIWA’s leadership approachThe wider organisation
Programmes are carried by people close to the work.
NIWA’s delivery draws on programme coordination, community mobilisation, technical input and local relationships. Individual staff and volunteers are presented publicly only when their current roles can be confirmed.
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Progress is stronger when communities help shape it.
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