About
Transforming Ideas Into Action
Vision
A society with equitable opportunity for active participation in the process of sustainable development through transforming ideas into actions
Mission
To build a society that promotes equitable opportunity for active participation in the process of sustainable development
Core values
Networking, Honesty, Care and Respect for human rights, Shared Vision, Performance and Team work, Equality and justice, Transparency and Accountability
Work Principles
Equality, Patience, Justice, Respect for human rights, Democracy
Background
Foundation For Community Initiatives (FOCEI)is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization contributing to the development needs of vulnerable and low resource communities. Established in 2019, borne with the core aim geared towards empowering people at the grassroots for sustainable development through community empowerment. The Organization work primarily with and for women, children, young people and their families, our mission is to build a society that promotes equitable opportunity for active participation in the process of sustainable development. The organization is registered with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with registration number 182317. FOCEI has a defined structure including six-man Board of Trustees (BoT) and Chief Executive Officer.
Objectives
The objectives are as follows;
- Promotes Community empowerment with the requisite skills and knowledge for to eradicate poverty and promote sustainable development in their society thought skills acquisition.
- Ensuring inclusive equitable and quality education that promote learning opportunities for all
- Encourage healthy lives that promote wellbeing for all at all ages through creating awareness on diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases including epidemic outbreaks.
- Promote peaceful, just and inclusive society free from terror and violence through creating relationship among communities to working together for peace.
- Promote Global health through tackling environmental problems through sensitization and tree planting.
- Gender equality and women empowerment by bridging the gap between the two genders through encouraging gender mainstreaming.
- Promote democracy, good governance and human right by encouraging community participation and engagement in decision making on issues affecting.
Purpose
As non-governmental organization we have the ability to access the people at the grass root we will act as a bridge between the suffering and desperate local communities and donor agencies, other international organizations, well-wishers, and charities that are willing to help the good people of Gombe state, Northeast and Nigeria as a whole.
Governance
We have a defined structure including Annual General Meeting (AGM), a Six Board of Trustees (BOT) among which three are female and three men with well experience with Executive Committee.
The structure determines the chain of command and hierarchy of responsibility within the organization.
The Board of Trustees is also responsible for planning and policy making of the organization. It also does the controlling and approving of all the activities of the Executive Committee. The Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director are the head of the Executive Committee that is responsible for the implementation of all the programs and daily management activities of the organization.
Thematic Areas
Being a leading grassroots focused organization; our work over the years has been consolidated around fundamental Human rights declaration and provisions as highlighted thus:
- Community Empowerment
- Education
- Health
- Environment
- Gender mainstreaming
- Water and Sanitation
- Gender Base Violence
- Democracy and Good Governance.
- Conflict resolution and peace building.
Education
In line with Sustainable Development Goal number four FOCEI is working round the clock to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
FOCEI is currently member of Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All CSACEFA to ensue lifelong learning opportunities for all, from early childhood to adult education and equity, inclusion and gender equality; Ensuring effective learning and the acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and competencies relevance of learning, in terms of vocational and technical skills for decent work as well as for global citizenship in a plural and interconnected world.
Health
At FOCEI we aspire to ensure health and well-being for all, including a bold commitment to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030. It also aims to achieve universal health coverage, and provide access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines for all.
Currently FOCEI is a registered member of Health Coalitions such as Association of Civil Society in Malaria and Nutrition (ACOMIN), TB Network and Network of People Living with HIV Aids NEPWHAN and has received funding from Global Fund, National Agency for the Control of AIDS are implementing project on provision of Technical services and support on community interventions to enhance uptake of C19 services and address other barriers towards improving client outcomes for HIV, TB and Malaria services under Global fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism
Community Empowerment
The backbone of FOCEI as an organization is the commitment to community empowerment to bridge the disparities between rural and urban areas. Globally, people in rural areas lack access to modern energy services, which affects productivity, educational and health services, exacerbating poverty, among other things. It is, therefore imperative that any development programmes undertaken in the country must involve the vast rural populace to maximize the impact of poverty.
FOCEI realizes this fact and has been collaborating and partnering with various donors’ agencies and International Non-Governmental Organizations and striving hard to drive change at the grassroots in various communities. The idea has been to build the capacities of rural communities and identify agents of change from those communities itself.
We have empowered several Women, Youth and Children’s in various communities.
Environment
We advocate various actions and policies in the interest of protecting what nature remains in the natural environment or restoring or expanding the role of nature in this environment. While true wilderness is increasingly rare, wild nature (e.g., unmanaged forests, uncultivated grasslands, wildlife, wildflowers) can be found in many locations previously inhabited by humans.
Our goals at FOCEI is for the benefit of people and natural systems, commonly expressed by environmental scientists and environmentalists include: Elimination of pollution and toxicants in air, water, soil, buildings, manufactured goods, and food and preservation of biodiversity and protection of endangered species and Conservation with sustainable use of resources such as water land, air, energy, raw materials, and natural resources.
Currently at FOCEI we are carrying out Tree Planting Campaigns in some selected schools
Gender Equality
Domination gender in extractive industry, present key limitations for sustainable leadership opportunities and career growth for women at FOCEI we identify these existing barriers and addressing necessary actions to be taken to promote gender equality and reduced existing gap between male and female gender.
We have worked with Nigerian Women Trust Fund with Support from ford Foundation in achieving the aforementioned goal.
Join us as we build a society that promotes equitable opportunity
Become A VolunteerPast Experience
S/no | Name of the project | Date | Location | Funded by | No. of direct beneficiaries |
1 | Enhancing Women and Adolescents Girls’ Leadership Skills and Capacity to Mitigate Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in selected communities, Kwami LGA of Gombe State, Nigeria | 2021 -2022 | Gombe | Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) FORD FOUNDATION | 3,500 |
2 | Enhancing Youths Civic Participation in Governance and Leadership Capacity in four Selected Communities within Gombe Metropolis, Gombe State, Nigeria
| 2022-2023 | Akko, Yamaltu Deba, Kwami and Gombe LGAS | Lead Africa, Nigerian Youth Future Fund, Ford Foundation and Mac author Foundation | 5,3782 |
3 | Provision of Technical services and support on community interventions to enhance uptake of C19 services and address other barriers towards improving client outcomes for HIV, TB and Malaria services under Global fund COVID-19 Response Mechanism | 2022-2023 | Kwami | Global Fund-NACA-ATM | 5,044 |
4 | Citizen engagement and Presentation of Citizen Accountability Report for Stakeholders in Gombe South senatorial District | 2022 | Balanga, Biiilir,Katungo and Shongom LGAs | Gombe State Ministry of Finance and Economic Development |
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5 | Capacity building sessions and initiatives to Rural Resilience Activity beneficiaries in Gombe | 2022 | Gombe | USAID/MERCY CORPS The Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity | 250 |
6 | Community Sensitization on Malaria prevention in Shongo Idrisa of Akko, LGA of Gombe State. | 2021 | Akko LGA | Self- funded | 132 |
7 | Step down USAID state 2 State training for Selected Civil Society organization on Budget Analysis | 2021 | Gombe | Self- funded | 11 |
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