• 1 Research at the Development Centre
  • 2 Building Capacity for Advocacy in RH
  • 3 Leadership Development at the Centre
  • 4 Islam and Development
  • 5 Early Childhood Development at the dRPC
  • 6 HIV/AIDS work at the dRPC
  • 7 Public sector Capacity building and Technical Assistance
  • 8 Development Support Services
  • 9 Coordinating and conducting policy research on conflict in northern Nigeria
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PACFaH

pacfah_logoPartnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) project is a social accountability project implemented through the strategy of partnership building of indigenous CSO’s, champions and activists to ensure the government at national and state levels in Nigeria fulfill commitments to child and family health. The project which commenced in 2014 mobilizes committed Civil Society Organizations (CBO’s); Faith based Organizations (FBO’s); professional associations; and Community Based Organizations (CBO’s)  along with the media and individual champions to work together to promote Governments responsiveness on policies, budgets and administration in child and family health.

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SLaB

SLaB LogoThe dRPC/GCC/SLaB (Saving Lives at Birth) project is informed by the basic assumption that the health seeking behaviour of women and men accessing services and the health providing practices of health workers in local communities in Northern Nigeria are affected by misperceptions and incorrect information about what is permitted or not permitted within Islam. The project aims to support and build the capacity of a core group of Muslim Opinion Leaders (MOLs) as master trainers in order to step-down the innovative training program on Islam and MNCH targeting health providers/administrators on the correct Islamic precepts on the following:-

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Early Childhood Development at the dRPC

studentsThe dRPC founders and staff are committed to the Centre’s work in early childhood development. Our collective experience of coordinating development interventions shows that improvement in education opportunities and standards impacts on all areas of development: employment generation, public health, child survival, gender equity, peace and security.

The dRPC focuses on early childhood development, an area which has little attention but which provides the foundation for learning, development and survival of children as well as societies. Early childhood development in the dRPC is a creative and sustainable approach to facilitating learning among children, teachers and communities to achieve academic standards in an environmentally relevant manner by broadening learning spaces beyond the class room to incorporate cultural, social, economic and environmental realities of the communities in which learning takes place. The ECD project aims to build learning communities with children at the core and with children’s needs for academic achievement, nutrition, a disease free environment, creativity and integrity being met.

The Centre’s work in early childhood development covers:

  1. training of ECD level teachers

  2. donations of creative learning materials to pre-primary classes in government and private schools

  3. sub-grants to community based organizations to run ECD Centers

  4. school water and sanitation awareness creation training

  5. advocacy skills building for education stakeholders

  6. ECD study tours for government officials to learn about best practices from neighboring countries such as Ghana

  7. ECD outreach to rural communities

The dRPC has been implementing ECD projects since 2003 with funding from  international Foundations as well as bilateral agencies:

  1. The Bernard Van Leer Foundation, Netherlands

  2. High Commission of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Nigeria, Abuja

  3. Wives of African Heads of Mission to Nigeria, Abuja