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.
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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
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.
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.
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