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Women in Nigeria face systemic exclusion from leadership and policy-making processes, perpetuating inequality and limiting national development. Despite Nigeria’s commitments to international treaties and the existence of a National Gender Policy, implementation remains weak due to entrenched cultural biases and political resistance.

The Gender-Based Security Threat Assessment of 2023 Election in Nigeria: Volume II is a follow up on the Gender-Based Pre-2023 Election Security Threat Assessment in Nigeria: Volume I. It focuses on threats to women participation as women, as voters, candidates, election security officials, observers and election officials in the February 25, Presidential and National Assembly in Nigeria, across the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria between November 2022 and February 2023, which covered the period of electioneering campaigns and the election.