Ndachem Abubakar is a community engagement analyst with the UNDP in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Borno State, with over 10 years’ experience in conflict and post conflict context. Abubakar’s work focuses on the implementation of four portfolio projects, under these projects she conducts advocacy and dialogue sessions, with critical government stakeholders, community leaders and civil society, on community preparedness for reintegrating low-risk former Boko Haram associates into the community, to improve acceptance and reduce stigmatisation and rejection of former boko haram associates, enhance social cohesion, and peaceful coexistence in the community. She facilitates capacity-building trainings for Government, CSO, CBOS, people with special abilities, VSOs, and community leaders on community mobilisation, mediation, conflict prevention and reconciliation, early warning, role of women in peace processes, post conflict needs for women and young girls, women empowerment, youth engagement and their participation in peacebuilding initiatives, social cohesion. She provides technical support to government to operationalize national infrastructures for peace, ADR commissions, transitional and restorative justice mechanisms and ensure 60% women’s participation in all project implementation at the local and state level with critical stakeholders, in social cohesion, sustainable peacebuilding initiatives, and sustainable socioeconomic support, to consolidate peace in northeast Nigeria, ensuring the full participation of women, youth, and people with disabilities. 

Participant in: January 2024 Fellowship: Peacebuilding and Women’s Meaningful Participation in Peacebuilding Processes