Programmes

Our programme of interventions includes the following.

Programme 01 · Children & OVC

Children Care & Support Programme

Shelter for orphans and vulnerable children, and community-based support for at-risk households.

  • Educational support
  • Health care & commodity support
  • Nutrition & commodity support
  • Shelter care & accommodation
  • Caregiver empowerment programme
Growth monitoring screening for a child in a rural community

Programme 02 · RHEESE

Household Economic Strengthening & Empowerment

Helping rural households build sustainable income through savings, skills and agriculture.

  • Income generation
  • Village loans & savings schemes (micro-credit)
  • Small-scale industry & micro-enterprise training
  • Agricultural empowerment
  • Cooperative society formation & supportive supervision
  • Livelihood & household nutrition (homestead gardening)
  • Skill acquisition
Donation of a grinding machine to a vulnerable caregiver

Programme 03 · Outreach

Reformation Outreach Programme

Community outreach that protects adolescents and strengthens household health.

  • Adolescent pregnancy crisis solutions
  • Character & moral habit reformation
  • Counselling & institutional reunion
  • Water, sanitation & hygiene (WASH)
  • Health education on malaria, HIV/AIDS & STDs
Hygiene and handwashing demonstration for children

Programme 04 · Peacebuilding

Conflict Resolution

Building community capacity to prevent and de-escalate conflict.

  • Peace promotion & early-warning systems
  • Management of gender-based violence
Community support group meeting in a rural setting

Track record

Over 10 cumulative years of donor-funded, IGR-funded and partnership project delivery.

2024 – ongoing

Global Fund · CRS · ACOMIN

Malaria Project, Zaria LGA, Kaduna State

Strengthening service delivery and community engagement at primary healthcare facilities — demand creation, community–facility linkages, accountability platforms, and malaria data monitoring.

2023 – 2024

Alive & Thrive (A&T) · FHI 360 · MIYCN Project ·

Maternal, Infant & Young Child Nutrition, 8 LGAs, Kaduna South

Trained health workers in interpersonal communication, mobilised community volunteers on micronutrient supplementation, ran supportive supervision, and led monthly data-quality validation.

2020 – 2021

Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

Women Economic Empowerment & Women-in-Leadership (WEE / WiL)

Economic skill training and mentorship for 100 beneficiaries across 11 LGAs, plus leadership and governance training for 455 women across 30 communities in Kaduna State.

2018

Development Innovation Group

WASH Coordination Project

A two-phase pilot survey on water service delivery, billing and customer satisfaction across 3 LGAs in Kaduna State, feeding into advocacy for improved water access.

2015 – 2018

USAID · via SCI

STEER — Systems Transformed for Empowered Action & Enabling Responses

Coordinated care across health & nutrition, education, child protection, food security and livelihoods for 5,000 beneficiaries and 1,000 caregivers in 10 communities, Kachia LGA.

2012

USAID

BRIDGE-to-MARKETS II Survey

A 180-participant survey across 9 communities, informing recommendations to scale up the MARKETS I intervention.

2010 – 2011

USAID MARKETS

Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Women & Youth in Agricultural Productivity

Homestead gardening and micro-enterprise training for households across 15 communities, with linkages to micro-finance and VSLA loans.

2006 – 2008

USADF

Cooperatives Empowerment Scheme

Coordinated women into formal cooperatives across 5 communities in 3 LGAs, training in micro-enterprise and agro-enterprise administration for cottage industries.

2006

Federal Ministry of Health · DFID

Partnerships for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS)

A representative household health survey across 2,000 households in Benue State, examining health practices, facility coverage and immunisation records.

2002 – 2009

German CRECHE Foundation

CRECHE Women Economic Empowerment Programme

Biannual economic-skill cohorts for vulnerable young women — tailoring, knitting, accessories and beverage production — supporting widows and economically dependent young women.

Annual

In collaboration with CEE Hope Foundation

Annual Summer School Project

Hygiene practice, home economics, leadership, public speaking and career counselling for teenagers, with routine sanitary pad distribution to girls transitioning into puberty.

Cumulative impact

Over two decades of reach across Kaduna, Lagos and Benue States.

10,000+

Adolescents & young women trained with economic skills, start-up kits and capital, over 15 years across all 64 LGAs of Kaduna & Benue.

20,000+

Adolescents and young women reached through SRHR outreach, sanitary pad distribution and bodily-autonomy education.

10,000+

Youth supported over 13 years through ICT training, psychosocial support, peace promotion and career-linkage services.

3,000+

Orphans, vulnerable children and teenage girls supported through our orphanage and shelter services.