Communities in Kwara State (a north-central Nigerian state) are developing grassroots mechanisms to combat gender-based violence, including community reporting desks and binding social charters signed by traditional, religious, youth, and women's leaders. The initiative, led by the Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative, has established structures in several communities — including a marriage agreement in Alalubosa that sets formal consequences for spousal violence — and trained local ambassadors to run awareness campaigns in Yoruba, Nupe, and English. Organisers say the approach is producing tangible results, citing one case in which a community broke from a tradition of quiet settlements to ensure a perpetrator was arrested and charged, signalling a broader cultural shift in how communities define accountability for gender-based violence.