In Alalubosa, Ilorin, residents set up their own desk for reporting gender-based violence. It has handled at least 12 cases. Ten of them are resolved. The community's Mogaji chairs it. Not long ago, that same authority would have called a case like this a private family matter and left it there. That shift is the subject of Battles in the Shadow, a new documentary from BBYDI. Over two years, with support from the Ford Foundation, BBYDI worked through the authority that already exists in these communities. Traditional rulers, community leaders and community security structures took the lead on preventing gender-based violence. In Alalubosa and Agbarere, that work now looks like marriage agreements, community charters against violence, and reporting desks. At the state level, the Emir of Ilorin contributed the foreword to BBYDI's GBV Prevention Toolkit, available in English and Yoruba. The film is honest about how much is unfinished. A signed charter changes what a community tolerates faster than it changes what people believe. The leaders in the film know this. They are taking responsibility for their part of it. Watch Battles in the Shadow: youtu.be/i4OFzRosUnM?si=ELcu… Produced by Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative. Supported by the Ford Foundation. #GBVPrevention #CommunityLed #TraditionalLeaders #Kwara #Nigeria