United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in collaboration with Rutgers University, four African Universities (Liberia, the Gambia, Ghana and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) developed a training manual on Gender and Transformative Leadership for training grassroots women for increased female participation in leadership and governance in the West African sub-region. With the support from the UNDP Democratic Governance for Development (DGD) II project, funded by the UK Aid; the European Union (EU) and the government of Canada, UNESCO Abuja Nigeria organised a workshop to finalise the Training Manual from September at Onyx Hotel Abuja.  The training of trainers workshop for the six geo-political zones was kick-started with the TOT for the South West zone held at Dover Hotel, Lekki phase II on October 21 and 22, 2014.