蘑菇视频DEF funds a project to increase involvement of women in Nigeria’s governance and democratic processes. A national network of women advocates from three generations lead a dialogue on new strategies for affirmative action and a new work plan for women’s empowerment. Community-based women’s organizations are trained to mobilize women across generations to join political parties and contest elections in a number of states across Nigeria. In the longer term, this project will contribute to increasing the proportion of women elected to political office. The initiative is implemented by the . At the project's 2012 Inter-Generational Dialogue on Women in Nigeria, the Minister for Women and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, said that for too long, Nigerian women’s participation in politics and decision-making had been dismal. She called for strategies that would politically empower women and establish a framework for gender responsiveness in all public and private sector policies and programmes.