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Success Story: The EU-ACT Capacity Building Program helped CPED staff improve their proposal writing skills

Senior management staff and adjunct researchers from higher institutions have traditionally been in charge of finding financing opportunities and submitting bids at CPED. Other employees (program officers and junior researchers) who have not been strengthened or taught in this area frequently have little or no participation into the proposal process.

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GENDER AT WORK MEETING ON THE PROJECT “EMPOWERING WOMEN AS KEY LEADERS IN PROMOTING COMMUNITY-BASED CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISKS REDUCTION INITIATIVES IN NIGER DELTA REGION”

The meeting which was chaired by Prof. Dicta Ogisi kick-started with a brief body work, a characteristics feature of Gender at work meetings, aimed at eliminating barriers to learning such as the binaries between the mind and soul, Public and Private, e.t.c. The body work was led by Nkechi Odinukwe.

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A POLICY DIALOG WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS ON THE PROJECT “EMPOWERING WOMEN AS KEY LEADERS IN PROMOTING COMMUNITY-BASED CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISKS REDUCTION INITIATIVES IN NIGER DELTA REGION”

The policy dialogue was organised to present to stakeholders a report of research on climate change project being implemented in Delta state by Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) in collaboration with Intervention Council for Women in Africa (ICWA) and the Delta state Ministry of Environment (DMoE). The overall

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MEETING OF CLIMATE CHANGE PROJECT TEAM ON THE PROJECT “EMPOWERING WOMEN AS KEY LEADERS IN PROMOTING COMMUNITY-BASED CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER RISKS REDUCTION INITIATIVES IN NIGER DELTA REGION”

The meeting which was chaired by the Project’s Principal Investigator, Prof Emeritus Andrew G. Onokerhoraye started off with a brief review of the Revised Project Log Frame listing all they have achieved since the inception of the project, activities they have carried out which include recruitment and training of Research

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POLICY WORKSHOP ON THE PROJECT “IMPROVING MATERNAL, NEWBORN AND CHILD HEALTH CARE SERVICE DELIVERY IN UNDERSERVED RURAL AREAS OF NIGERIA THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH” SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 @ ELIKO HOTELS WARRI, DELTA STATE

By Job Eronmhonsele The policy workshop which was held in Warri, Delta State, September 26, 2017 was among several policy engagement meetings held with key stakeholders in Delta state as part of the concluding activities marking the implementation of an action research project on ‘Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

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REPORT OF THE OFFICIAL FLAG-OFF CEREMONY OF THE COMMUNITY HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME (CHIS), OKWABUDE, OKPE LGA, DELTA STATE. August 31, 2017

Report by CPED Communication’s Team led by Job Imharobere Eronmhonsele, August 31, 2017 Introduction CPED research on access to Primary Health Care which was implemented in Nine Local Government Areas of Delta state and the research results of the MNCH project in Okpe LGA, Delta State, show that lack of

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