Brief History Of WOFAN & Capacity Statement
About WOFAN
Women Farmers Advancement Network (WOFAN) was established in June 1993 and was incorporated with the Kano State Government as a Community Development Association in 1995 with 28 community members. The organization was later registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission in 2004 as WOFAN Associates and WOFAN Enterprise to engage in capacity development, consultancy and provision of corporate services and to develop the entrepreneurial skills and economic inclusion of the rural farming and processing communities, respectively.
With its headquarters in Kano, WOFAN partners and works with mobilized, registered multipurpose cooperatives, Community Based Organizations (CBO), community service groups, the private sector, and research institutions and other relevant national and international stakeholders towards achieving a holistic development of the people.
In 2017 WOFAN was upgraded to “Women Empowerment Foundation” by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria. The new outfit strengthens WOFAN to effectively collaborate with all arms of governments, the private sector, NGOs, traditional and community structures as well as donor agencies to achieve greater impact in development issues, nationally and regionally by bringing additional complementary strengths and shared responsibilities towards achieving its corporate goals and vision.
WOFAN works with women, men, and youth groups; currently working with 675,000 target beneficiaries across nine states of Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna, Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau, Bauchi, Adamawa, Gombe and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). To ease access and to achieve higher project impact on beneficiaries, WOFAN forms and engages collective and synergistic groups, each comprising 30 homogenous members.
est.
2007
2 decades of excellence
220
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Membership Groups
Our Strategy
- Pro-poor growth strategy.
- Sustainable livelihoods that improve nutrition and income strategy
- Rights and empowerment strategy
- Resources and redistribution strategy.
The organization’s values are focused on poverty reduction strategies in a responsive and participatory manner as well as functional literacy /capacity building process towards achieving enhanced livelihoods, health, and governance, with capacity development as a cross-cutting issue.