Defence For Children International, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa

DCI envisions a just and responsible society where Nigerian children can exercise their rights and are cared for by all and sundry.

We are dedicated to ensuring on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child, as articulated in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), its optional protocols, and all the other human rights instruments.

Partners For Development Pfd Nigeria, Abuja, West Africa

PFD’s mission is to work with vulnerable and underserved populations in developing countries to improve quality of life. With programs currently in Cambodia, Nigeria, Bosnia & Herzegovina and new operations opening in Tanzania, PFD is addressing local needs in public health, agriculture, veterinary health, and credit.

Foto-sofia, Asaba, Nigeria, West Africa

FOTO-SOFIA is a Youth & Community development Organization, FOTO-SOFIA is a not-for-profit & independent non-government organizations dedicated to the practical realization of Global, Regional & National Development Initiatives, like the UN- MDGs, AU development policies and Nigeria’s National NEEDS Program aimed at fighting poverty, hunger, and injustice around our community.

Our mission is a peaceful community without poverty, hunger and injustice, our aim is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives.

History of Foto-sofia

FOTO-SOFIA was first conceived in 2000, the learning phase of FOTO-SOFIA lasted for about 4 years, skeletal services were rendered here and there, mostly without any record kept, but the joy of the service was too much for the young group, at about 2005, FOTO-SOFIA hit the streets and started making meaningful impart in the lives of the public, formed by a group of like-minded independent youths in Asaba, who wanted to work together nationally now and in future internationally to achieve greater impact in reducing poverty by their collective efforts.

This group of citizens believes in dialogue, conference, workshop, campaign, advocacy, public enlightenment as a powerful tool for development, we do not believe in violence, no matter the degree, nature or type, whether active or passive, peaceful environment makes for the greatest good.

We are working to become part of a national network of Citizens, are capable of national responses to national issues. We are aiming to create ways of working and structures appropriate to national action in a complex and diversified Country.

since 2006 FOTO-SOFIA has kept a record of about 1838 youths, who had both directly and indirectly benefited from our free services in basic computer education; public health education; human right protection education; career development workshop; self reliance workshop; leadership lesson; wealth creation workshop; business management skills; investment opportunity skills and other youth development programs.

We works with community leaders, partner organizations, public sector, and well spirited individuals in undertaking long-term development tasks, emergency work, research and campaigning for a fairer nation.

We works on a broad range of issues, including globalization, development goals, ICT, health, education, human rights, agriculture food sufficiency and Indigenous Craft & Techniques.
What does FOTO-SOFIA do?

Society For Empowerment And Attitudinal Change, Abuja, Nigeria, West Africa

mission of the Southeast ATC is to provide training for high school and adult students, displaced workers and unemployed individuals in Southeast Utah for employment in skilled or semi-skilled jobs; to provide on-the-job training leading to higher proficiency and retention, or placement in skilled craft jobs; and to bring education and business together to assist students in receiving the most benefit from their applied technology instruction.

MISSION OBJECTIVES: Provide personalized, open-entry/open-exit, competency-based, applied technology instruction to high school and adult applied technology students, displaced workers, and unemployed individuals for employment in skill intensive occupations.

Provide occupational upgrade instruction through approved Custom Fit or regular applied technology programs to employed individuals to improve skills and-or retention.

Offer personalized open-entry/open-exit, competency-based, applied technology instruction on a year-round basis (subject to sufficient enrollment and funding) not tied to pre-set dates such as the traditional school semester or quarter.

Provide short-term, intensive, task-specific, instruction closely aligned with the needs of business and industry. Competencies and length of training are determined with input from ATC program advisory committees.

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.

Communicating For Change Cfc, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa

CFC is a non-governmental organisation limited by guarantee and is run entirely on a not-for profit basis. It is funded by grants received from international and local donors and is increasingly supported by private sector funding.

CFC also generates income from fee based communications services, film sales and office space rental to support its development communications work.

Oilwatch Africa, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa

Oilwatch is a resistance network that opposes the activities of oil companies in tropical countries. Oilwatch is a network that builds solidarity and fosters a common identity among peoples of the South.

Oilwatch understands similarities in the current pattern of resource exploitation in countries of the South, which reflects historical legacy of disempowerment of peoples and considers the recognition of the right of peoples to self-determination as primary in the resolution of environmental problems. Oilwatch is a network of resistance to the negative impacts of oil and gas industry activity on peoples and their environment.