Abgremo – Akpabuyo Bakassi Green Movement, Calabar, Nigeria, West Africa

Akpabuyo Bakassi Green Movement (ABGREMO) mission is work for the promotion of Environmental and Human Rights protection in and around the coastal communities of Cross River state, through information sharing, education and action programmes.

Again, we work to protect the last remaining mangrove forest of Niger-Delta found in Cross River State, Nigeria
ABGREMO in the next 5 years intends to strive more harder and effectively in regards to level of impact on environment and the well-being of the coastal communities people.

Our focus will be to work closely and in partnership with community people to reduce poverty and increase access to basic human rights inline with the millennium development goal.

As well as sustainable development. It is our commitment to respond to the various challenges of poverty at the grassroots/ rural communities arising from environmental degradation and basic human rights abuses.

Again in view of the present ICJ judgment over Bakassi peninsula, it is our zeal to sensitize the relevant stakeholders in campaigning for Self-determination as another step in following up the International Court of Justice(ICJ) judgment, which failed to recognized the rights of the indigenous people, the aim of the advocacy is to avoid violence conflict but to promote the People’s Rights as enshrined in the United Nations instrument (Rights to Self-Determination).

Within this projected period many potential donors and International NGOs will be reach out to

Grace Oviawe Foundation, Benin City, Nigeria, West Africa

Nigeria is full of unexplored potential. Grace Foundation stemmed from the acknowledgement and acute awareness of the possibilities inherent in a blossoming country.

We thus envisioned our role as an interconnecting and strategic agency for communities as they pursue quality education, growth opportunities, and self-actualization, locally, nationally, and globally.

Grace Foundation embraces a holistic approach to promote self-sufficiency and community empowerment of underprivileged and/or low-income families. In fulfillment of our mission, and as a non-profit organization, we commit ourselves to a process we refer to as TAP:

Transformation, Action, and Participation. To this effect, we remain faithful to the following goals:

Promote self-sufficiency and economic stability.

Create and sustain educational and economic development opportunities.

Build community empowerment through capacity-building and leadership development.

Develop vibrant and healthy communities.

Foster cross-cultural collaboration through participatory development.

reetings and welcome to the Grace Oviawe Foundation for Educational and Social Development (a.k.a Grace Foundation) website! Changing socio-economic realities combined with government policy and funding patterns mean that we constantly need to find new ways to address emerging issues and the resulting social service needs in our community.

Grace Foundation aims to be a catalyst in creating strong, healthy and vibrant communities by building partnerships and working with disenfranchised individuals to tap into their innate abilities.

We are deeply committed to addressing our stakeholders’ needs, listening to donors, to supporters, to service providers and to making responsive and informed decisions. Our strategic plan is based on the priority issues that we have been able to identify as being important to the long-term health and well-being of our community.

Centre For Education, Research And Conservation Of Primates And Nature Cercopan, Calabar, Nigeria, West Africa

Founded in 1995 by Canadian Zena Tooze, CERCOPAN is now one of the leading environmental non-profit, non-government organizations working for conservation in Cross River State, Nigeria, with excellent relationships with government at both state and federal levels, and with a support organisation in the UK (registered charity 1116955). Our primary areas of work are primate rehabilitation, environmental education, community rainforest conservation, and research.

CERCOPAN has two sites, our administrative and primate rehabilitation headquarters in Calabar, and our international research and education centre at Rhoko, Iko Esai (our community partners). Partners include the Cross River State Forestry Commission, the Cross River National Park and the University of Calabar.

Diamond Development Initiatives, Kano, Nigeria, West Africa

Diamond Development Initiatives (DDI) is a not-for-profit, non-political and non-religious organization. DDI is managed by Nigerians who share a common desire for the establishment of a sustainable organization that would provide assistance to grassroots entities. Our office is located in Kano, Northern Nigeria.

Our knowledge of development issues, experience in the use of participatory development methodologies in the design, planning, implementation and the monitoring and evaluation of projects, understanding of best practices, strong institutional capacity, the ability of our staff to support projects in an efficient and cost effective manner and our knowledge and experience with working with international development organizations, are a cutting edge that can hardly be found anywhere else in Northern Nigeria.

Diamond Development Initiatives is committed to the concept that development projects are most likely to succeed when there is active involvement and commitment of those people who will be affected by, and have a vested interest in the activity to be pursued.

We are therefore interested in projects that are initiated by, reflect the priorities of, and present the ideas put forward by members of an implementing group.

Such projects are the result of a self-directed effort based on a shared vision of, and commitment to, solving a problem that affects them.

Diamond Development Initiatives acknowledges the rights of groups and communities to control their lives including the decision over what and how development activities should be pursued.

We strive to ensure that development projects have a clear evidence that they have been initiated by an organization or group that has broad based participation of its members in the decision making process.

All members of the group will then see themselves as the owners of the project, with vested interest in, and commitment to undertake the tasks required for the project to be successful.

Living Earth, Nigeria, Calabar, West Africa

Living Earth Foundation (LEF) was established in 1988 as a UK registered charity. LEF has established a unique portfolio of projects, which have set new standards of working in education, environment and community development.

Living Earth also promotes and practices positive engagement and partnership working with corporations and governments in developing solutions to local, regional, national and international problems.

Living Earth Foundation is an international, not for profit organization running programmes in over eight countries from Venezuela to Uganda, Alaska to Sakhalin. It is at the heart of a growing network of Living Earth organizations around the world that work in a cooperative and supportive way to maximize their impact.

Girls’ Power Initiative, Benin City, Nigeria, West Africa

GPI seeks to empower girls, especially those between the ages of 10-18 years and to promote their sexual and reproductive health and rights, through educational programmes, counseling, referral services and social action.

OUR VISION: To build a strong and empowered feminist institution with critical consciousness and capacity for analysis of social and gender prejudices, committed to managing and educating girls into healthy self-reliant, productive and confident women for the achievement of positive changes and transformation of patriarchal values in Nigeria.

Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI) is a Nigerian non-governmental, not-for-profit youth development organization founded in 1993 by Bene Madunagu and Grace Osakue to address the challenges facing girls in the Nigerian society and equip them with information, skills and opportunities for action to grow into self actualised young women.

African Network For Environmental And Economic Justice -aneej, Benin City, Nigeria, West Africa

The African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) is a non-profit, non-political, and non-governmental organization based in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The Reverend David Ugolor founded ANEEJ while a student at the Edo State University (now Ambrose Alli University) in 1995; the organisation was constituted in 1998.

For over 10 years ANEEJ has been working in Benin City, Edo State, and the Niger Delta region and has managed activities across the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. Working with local communities, civil society organisations, the private sector and state and national governments our focus is sustainable development, the alleviation of poverty and economic empowerment.

ANEEJ has covered a number of issues during this time, including Debts and Structural Adjustments, monitoring International Financial Institutions (World Bank, International Monetary Fund, African Development Bank), Public Expenditure Management, Revenue Transparency, Budget Monitoring & Tracking and Environmental Issues including Water & Sanitation.

Nigerian Organisation For Solidarity And Development Nosad, Calabar, Nigeria, West Africa

NOSAD is the acronym for the Nigerian organisation for Solidarity and Development. It is a Calabar-based Non-Governmental, non-profit and non-partisan organisation that seeks to enhance the unity, development and socio-political and economic emancipation of the Nigerian society.

NOSAD was founded in May 1992 following the workshop on Development Priorities in the 90s attended by development practitioners from across the country. At the end of the workshop, participants agreed to form an organisation with the underlined aims and objectives.

Global Medical Missions, Warri, Nigeria, West Africa

Global Medical Missions, GMM, is a Christian-based, charity organization dedicated to alleviating poverty in rural African communities through the provision of free healthcare services, health education and training of medical personnel.

Our Vision: To ensure that the most remote communities in Africa have access to specialized healthcare services and health information.

Our Mission: To ensure that God, in his infinite mercy, heals all who are afflicted and broken in spirit.

Our Goal: To be the leading non-profit indigenous specialized healthcare service and information provider to rural African communities.

Global Medical Missions…sowing seeds in the lives of men by ensuring that God, in His infinite mercy, heals all who are afflicted.

Centre For Enterprise Development And Action Research, Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa

The major sectors of interest to the Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research includes:
Local and community economic development

Governance and democracy

Health

Education

Agriculture

These sector issues are addressed through a set of cross cutting and integrated approaches.

In the Research, advisory and consultancy programme, CEDAR engages in demand-driven policy and action research as well as in those researches that inform our programme focus. Using both traditional and innovative methodologies including participatory rapid appraisals (PRA), the centre undertakes rapid and long-term researches. We also have updated databases on development experts and organisations as well as a well-stocked development resource and documentation library.

A component of this programme involves the provision of mentoring support for NGO and CBO building and management. Providing backstopping and sub-contracting activities, we also facilitate the organisation of workshops and conferences for other NGOs and we provide orientation for international personnel.

In South-west Nigeria, we constitute a clearing house for information dissemination to other NGOs and CBOs in the zone.

The Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research (CEDAR) is a non-governmental, not forprofit organisation set up in 1995, essentially as a ‘help centre’ for a network of interested people and organisations in response to problems associated with:

Inequitable distribution of development benefits; Alarming rate of unemployment and poverty among people especially women; Economic and social problems associated with the unemployment and poverty situation; Unequal access of people to development information, resources and the enabling environment.

Therefore, the mission of CEDAR is to facilitate men and women to be socially and economically empowered.

This is done through: Advisory, Research and Evidence-based Advocacy; Skills Development; Community and Enterprise Development support including: micro credit, market intelligence, improved technology, issue driven advocacy.