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.