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No.7 Agagbe Road, Naka Gwer West LGA P.O Box 1298, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria, e-mail: ngo.corafid@yahoo.com Contact: +2348066559669, +2348024131087

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CORAFID Civil Organisations Research, Advocacy & Funding Initiatives Development

The Civil Organisation Research Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development

(CORAFID) is a Non-governmental and non-profit organisation,

contributing to sustainable grassroots development since 2002.

Envisioned 1999 and registered 28

th February, 2002 in Benue State, Nigeria.

Civil Organisations Research Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID)

No.7 Agagbe Road, Naka Gwer West LGA; P.O Box 1298, Makirdi, Benue State.

Nathaniel Msen Awuapila MIAM, Executive Facilitator.

+2348066559669; +2348024131087

Elsewhere in Nigeria

Makurdi Township

Makurdi Modern Market

Naka Roundabout

NAKA Agagbe Road

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CORAFID OFFICE Ankpa Makurdi Park

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INTRODUCTION

WHEN IT WAS ESTABLISHED

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Civil Organisations Research Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID) 2011851657 (First Bank of Nigeria)

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CORAFID was conceived in 1999 and first registered as an association on February 28 2002, in Benue

State, Nigeria, by the Gwer West Local Council, under the name of Civil Organisations Research,

Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID). Its registration with the Benue State

Government and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria began almost simultaneously in

2003 under the name of Civil Organisations Research, Advocacy, and Funding Network (CORAF-

NETWORK). However, institutional restructuring further necessitated a change of name. The

organisation continued to operate under its first name until late 2010 when an executive decision was

taken to re-start incorporation of the NGO under the name of CORAFID International.

The task of establishing CORAFID by its Initiator had been a pressing heart-yearning that stretched

back to 1999. The initiator was inspired by the strong conviction that:

Every (Nigerian) citizen deserves to live a noble and happy life since each person is of the living

God whose spirit is in us. The United Nations Universal Declaration also professes the fundamental

rights of all humans.

Every (Nigerian) child deserves the warmth and love of parents, who should not have to slave under

inhuman conditions daily before they can secure a decent meal and secured shelter for the family.

Excessive energy expended on earning a living threatens family stability and portends an ill-

cultivated community and nation.

Children below employment age should not have to work under unduly strenuous conditions. They

should have access to education and professional training and allowed to grow up at their own pace

into thriving youthfulness, rather than forced prematurely into the job market.

(Nigerian) citizens should be assured of viable employment opportunities and their work

environment adequately protected against conditions that threaten their human dignity, because

how well one works and how much one produces are only equal to the nature of environment

in which the work is done.

Families should be assured of safe, free, friendly, supportive work and home environment, such

atmosphere of mutuality where rights meet responsibilities, thus directly eliciting the felt commitment

to participate in collective community building practices and processes where each person plays

their roles as they could, to contribute toward achieving the collective good.

OUR FOUNDING

OUR BASIC INSPIRATION

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An appropriate civil society platform requires to be created to bring to fore, gaps in civil society

interventions touching on the foregoing pertinent areas, and to galvanise collaborative effort toward

addressing such gaps in an effective and timely manner, based on the principles of sustainable

development.

CORAFID envisions a society that is well coordinated to support the needs and aspirations of ordinary citizens and communities, a society that integrates them all in each national development programme.

Our mission is to enhance civil society effort at mainstreaming the grassroots on national agenda through innovation and cooperation with appropriate stakeholders.

Sustainable development first!

1. To represent the best interest of civil society in its quest for socio-economic prosperity and

sustainable development;

2. To generate and/or utilize appropriate networks and other instruments for enhanced civil society

awareness of its situations, challenges, problems, and opportunities;

3. To create and/or utilize mechanisms that shall guarantee satisfaction of the lawful aspirations of the

ordinary citizens;

4. To advocate for organised grassroots-driven development funding initiatives;

5. To support initiatives that address core development problems to do with the root causes of

disease, ignorance, injustice and poverty;

6. To collaborate with relevant bodies to promote sustainable development practices and structures;

7. To investigate the direction of local and national institutional activities and programmes, based on

global sustainable development principles and standards.

CORAFID has three (3) program areas, including: 1. Citizenship and Governance Program (CiGoP), promotes

1.1. Civic and peace education for in-school and out-of-school youth

1.2. Grassroots engagement in governance

1.3. Social protection

2. Resource Development and Education Program (ReDEP), supports

2.1. Education of the girl-child, OVC, and other vulnerable groups, especially youth

2.2. Income Generating Activities (IGAs) and wealth-building

2.3. Community funding initiatives

2.4. Entrepreneurship training and development

3. Women Action Strategy Program (WASP), concerned with

3.1. Gender and Social Justice

3.2. Conflict transformation

3.3. Women and governance

3.4. Maternal and child health

3.5. Environmental wellbeing

VISION

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MISSION

AIMS/OBJECTIVES

OUR PROGRAMMES AND INTEREST AREAS

Founded on February 28 2002 in Benue State, CORAFID has over the past several years worked

mainly at the grassroots level, being registered also at the local level, and has promoted the participation

of community-based groups in development activities through joint needs appraisal and action planning,

training, mentoring, and collaboration, has partnered with stakeholders in the educational and social

sectors to improve the lot of OVCs through resource access measures to benefit caregivers, has offered

or secured scholarships to educate and train OVCs, has established school-based and out-of-school

youth clubs to mentor children and the youth on matters of personal integrity and commitment to

peaceful living, as well as has supported institutional strengthening projects to benefit our partners.

CORAFID is member of several coalitions and networks including West Africa Network for

Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria, of which CORAFID’s Executive Facilitator serves as North Central

Zonal Early Warning Analyst; Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL); Benue

State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN), of which CORAFID is a founding member plus our Executive

Facilitator serves as pioneer Chairman; Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), of which

CORAFID serves as Gwer West L.G.A. Coordinator, having previously served as Assistant Secretary to

the State Coordinating Committee. CORAFID has longstanding partnership relations with Justice,

Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), currently serving on JDPC’s Core Team for Makurdi

Diocese, as well as has worked with various NGOs on issue-specific projects. Over the past years we

have organized a sensitization forum on Nigeria’s Micro-finance policy for CBOs and Government at the

Local Level in Gwer West L.G.A. of Benue State (2007); we partnered with OLAM/USAID MARKETS

Nigeria Ltd, Makurdi, to achieve credit access and then assured product market for our rice producing

groups from our member-CBOs (since 2007); we have partnered with the Women Environmental

Program (WEP) to train grassroots women groups on soil conservation and water harvesting, as well as

served on their consultancy teams to train high-level representatives on Nigeria’s National Gender

Policy (Feb. 2008) as well as provided several capacity building services to their subsidiary organization,

the Federation of Urban Poor (FEDUP), Abuja (since 2008).

CORAFID has partnered with over 40 CBOs since inception and has established, in 2010, an auxiliary

platform known as Nigeria CBO Forum (NCBOF is a coalition platform for community-based actors) to

ensure ongoing experience sharing among CBOs in Nigeria as well as joint initiatives with other NGOs

and development partners to support capacity building of local actors toward viable participation in

governance and sustainable development and to promote community-driven approaches to

development projects. Nigeria CBO Forum is currently being incorporated by the Corporate Affairs

Commission of Nigeria under the name of Association for Human Advancement (AHA). Earlier in

2006, the CORAFID Cooperative Society Ltd was established to achieve ongoing economic

empowerment support to our member CBOs. The cooperative, which was registered by the Benue State

Ministry for Commerce and Industries, is CORAFID’s first auxiliary platform and regularly

designs/implements initiatives to promote income generating activities among our members, develops

options for further growth of enterprise initiatives and supports agro-processing, credit access, market

development, and general capacity development. Our children and youth participating in our school-

based and out-of-school clubs, upon graduation, have an opportunity to continue contributing to social

OUR APPROACH TO ISSUES AND CONCERNS

development through our third auxiliary platform known as Project Zero Redundancy (PZR, PZR

Network), also created in 2010. PZR Network, however, also leverages on the commitment of

professional and self-employed youths across the country that enroll on our mentoring schedule, to

serve as competent mentors to fellow Nigerian youths. As at February 2011 we have 4 Peer Mentoring

Teams (PMTs) on the platform of PZR Network in Abuja FCT. CORAFID also has established a fourth

auxiliary platform to coordinate our key partnerships with stakeholders in the social sector including

educational and other professional institutions. This platform, known as Br Dominic Erhmantraut FSC

Centre for Learning and Development (DECLeD), named after the Initiator’s highly cherished mentor,

Br Dominic Erhmantraut FSC, currently is key implementer of a partnership understanding with De La

Salle Brothers, otherwise known as Brothers of the Christian Schools and the Parents’, Teachers’

Association of Mt La Salle College, Naka, Benue State, Nigeria. The partnership seeks to support

development initiatives of De La Salle Brothers, through targeted capacity development, institution

building, and resource mobilization. Through DECLeD we have initiated an organization to promote the

cause of De La Salle Brothers in Nigeria by the name of St John (Baptist) de la Salle Foundation and

the process of its incorporation by the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria (CAC) is ongoing since

July 2011. DECLeD is also set for incorporation under a name to be approved by the Corporation Affairs

Commission of Nigeria

In December 2010 CORAFID also initiated the CORAFID Savings and Internal Lending Scheme

(CSILS) as part of widening opportunities by our members to step up their capacities for income

generating and wealth building initiatives. Note that CORAFID has 3 program lines/interests including

Citizenship and Governance Programme (CiGoP), Resource Development and Education Programme

(ReDEP), and Women Action Strategy Programme (WASP). CSILS addresses ReDEP’s 2nd

core

objective, which is to support income generating activities (IGAs) and wealth-building. CSILS also

promotes CiGoP’s 3rd

core objective, which is promotion of social protection among target communities.

Whereas CORAFID Cooperative Society Ltd has intervened to date by way of partnership, mainly with

OLAM/USAID MARKETS, to promote agricultural activities among our members, CSILS shall be the

society’s second arm, providing savings and loaning opportunities to member CBOs that are affiliated to

Nigeria CBO Forum now being reconstituted under the name of Association for Human Advancement.

Gwer-West Local Government, Benue State

Justice Development and Peace Commission[JDPC], Makurdi diocese, Benue

PATHS Benue (now in Abuja)

Central Bank of Nigeria, North Central Zonal HQ

OLAM/USAID Nig. Ltd.

Women Environmental Programme (WEP), Abuja

SWAAN Benue

West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP Nigeria)

Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN)

Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN)

23 partner member CBOs/CDAs of the Grassroots Forum and CORAFID cooperative.

SOME OF OUR PARTNERS SINCE 2002

WASP targets women and children

ReDEP targets children and youths

CGP targets women and youth.

Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN), Rm 21, Benue State Secretariat, Ministry for Women Affairs and Social Development (MWASD), Makurdi Benue State. +2348066559669

Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), 1st Floor, NACRDB, Otukpo Road, Makurdi.

Telephone: +2348065574167

Nigeria Youth Network on HIV/AIDS, Population and Development Activities (NYNETHA), EVA Secretariat, Beside Ashby Investment House, Wurukum Makurdi.

West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP Nigeria) Telephone: +2348038306615

Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) Telephone: +2348052730312

The Justice Development and Peace Commission Peace Team (currently supported by Misereor Germany). Ahmadu Commasse Road, Demekpe, Makurdi. Telephone: +2347030355221

On the Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN), CORAFID is a founding member and CORAFID’s Executive Facilitator, Mr Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, currently chairs the network, which comprises 25 NGOs and CBOs drawn from across the state, July 28 2011.

On the Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), CORAFID served as Assistant State Secretary during the previous administration and now has responsibility for coordinating Gwer West L.G.A. on behalf of the Network. Gwer West is one of 23 L.G.As. in the State, since March 2011.

On West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP Nigeria), CORAFID’s Executive Facilitator serves as the Network’s Early Warning Analyst with responsibility over North Central Nigeria, since June 2011.

On Justice Development and Peace Commission partnership platform, CORAFID serves on a 5-member Core Team for the Commission and has responsibility for monitoring and reporting on conflict situations in Gwer East, Gwer West, and Konshisha L.G.As., since June 2009.

Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL). CORAFID is a member organization.

Nigeria Youth Network on HIV/AIDS, Population and Development Activities (NYNETHA). CORAFID is a member organization.

The Board of Trustees(BOT) provides strategic direction

Decision by the board is streamlined through the Executive Facilitator who takes administrative and programme decisions

The Head of Programming oversees the organization’s programmes.

The General Secretary conveys administrative decisions

The Accounts Office, Volunteers and Office Assistants reports to the EF via General Secretary.

The Project Office coordinates project implementation

Project ideas generated from any internal sources are channeled via the Projects Appraisal and Evaluation Committee (PAEC), chaired by Head of Programming.

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