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OGB PA Discretionary Contribution to Nigeria FY2018-2019 The amount of the discretionary fund will be spent on programmes and the balance will be spent on core costs. The amount going to programme will be added to ONL DF and spent on 3 local partners that are NAWIA, CCDP and YMCA.  Oxfam in Nigeria has 3 local partners in the middle belt of Nigeria in Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau. They have implemented the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) projects funded 100% through unrestricted lines (counterpart) thus far. There is no donor funding involved. They submitted their annual work plan and budget early this fiscal year for the continuation of the project. These three local partners are: 1. NAWIA: the Nigeria Association of Women in Agriculture in Benue 2. CCDP: Cocin Community Development Program in Plateau 3. YMCA: Young (wo)Men's  Christian Association in Narasawa   Together, they have been reaching the past two years 42,702 farmers, 75% of whom are females. Together, they raised $1,800,000 to build start -ups, small (agro allied) businesses and downright farming activities. The plan for April 2018 - March 2019 was to add 22,000 more farmers this fiscal year.
Programme Quality and Accountability Enhancement External Consultations with partners and Staff: Engaging an external person to carry out the review is to allow for objective and structured information based on evidence. Programme/Partners Visits: Cross partner Learning and knowledge sharing visits   Country Learning Review: Reflection and learning by programme teams and partners. It provides opportunities for country team to meet with stakeholders in order to review their outputs.   Capacity Building/Knowledge Sharing:Significant Change Stories will be developed to demonstrate how Oxfam and its partners are contributing to fighting poverty.
PRO ACT : Building Food Security and Resilience in Northern Nigeria This action focuses on developing resilient livelihoods through integration of humanitarian relief, socioeconomic development, and empowered advocacy as well as improving social protection safety nets and strengthening market system. The action will benefit 35,000 households, of which 50% will be women, through 700 farmer groups and 700 savings groups in 7 LGAs (3 in Kebbi and 4 in Adamawa States). The LGAs in Kebbi in the Northwest are Birnin Kebbi, Jega and Danko/Wasagu covered by DEC BAUCHI. In Adamawa in the Northeast, the LGAs are Song, Mubi South, Fufore and Guyuk covered by CRUDAN
Building Citizen's Movements in Support of the GROW campaign This will be achieved using public campaigning approaches particularly use of Nigerian celebrities, ( musicians and actors) traditional media and digital campaigning tools to reach out to existing movements particularly the youth, and rural women and farmer groups at  National, state and local levels. key activities will include:  working withe Nigerian celebrities, Female Food Hero awards and use of media
Empowering smallholder farmers against disaster and emergency impacts in Nigeria The project aims to ensure the preparedness of small scale farmers  for the impacts of disasters and emergencies in view of their vulnerability especially women, and limited capacity to recover from such impacts. The project will facilitate processes that will advocate and support relevant movements for policy reforms and the development of intruments to support SHF in the event of disasters and emergencies. The project also aims to build the adapative capacity of farmers to these, while reducing their economic losses from disasters and emergencies and facilitation of public support to them. The project supports SCO 1.1, 4, 5.1
PROSELL - PA contribution to Oxfam Novib Oxfam and its partner, Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), will work jointly to reach target households in order to increase levels of food production, income and capacity to cope with shocks. The approach will strengthen community organisations, enhance their ability to access services, negotiate with local authorities, contribute to policy development, and implement smallholder agriculture.
PROSELL - PA contribution to Oxfam Novib (final yr of NGAA87) Oxfam and its partner, Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), will work jointly to reach target households in order to increase levels of food production, income and capacity to cope with shocks. The approach will strengthen community organizations, enhance their ability to access services, negotiate with local authorities, contribute to policy development, and implement smallholder agriculture.
Raising Nigerian Women's Voices This project focuses on strengthening the role of women in governance in Nigeria to ensure that public policy and budgets, decision -making, national and customary rights reflect the interests of poor and marginalized women. This will be achieved through promoting the rights, capacity and increased voice of poor women to influence and demand for more effective institutional accountability. The project supports national women focussed civil society organizations, media, issue focussed and interest groups through research, advocacy and campaigning to influence public policy and practice. The project is part of SCO 4, 5.1.
PROACT - PA contribution to Oxfam Novib This project focuses on developing resilient livelihoods through integration of humanitarian relief, socioeconomic development, and empowered advocacy as well as improving social protection/safety nets and strengthening system. The approach provides a coherent framework to achieve the action objective by concurrently addressing short -term targeted agricultural outcomes with improved implementation of government policies and institutional capacity development.   Through support from Oxfam and its partners, Development Exchange Centre (DEC) and Christian Rural and Urban Development Association of Nigeria (CRUDAN), target households will increase capacity to cope with shocks, levels of food production and income. Pro -Resilience Action (PROACT) approach will strengthen community organisations, enhance their ability to access services, negotiate with local authorities, contribute to policy development and implementation on smallholder agriculture.
Improving Women's leadership & effectiveness in Agriculture in Nigeria. Project will support efforts to increase women's leadership and participation in decision -making at all levels of agricultural governance and production through building women's skills and capacity to improve production, income and lead positions in agricultural associations and governance. Action at national, state and local levels and will include in -depth research, knowledge dissemination and support for policy debates that promote fair agricultural legal framework that favours women. It will work with gender advocates, research institutions, women's agricultural machineries and government institutions for change. SCOs 1, 2, 4 and 5.
Economic Justice Campaign Launch On June 1, 2011 Oxfam will launch a global campaign on Food Justice in a resource - constrained world. The goal of this campaign is to support people living in poverty to claim power in the way the world manages land; water and climate change so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat now and in the future.   In Nigeria the Voices for food security Campaign will participate in launching of this new campaign with a series of events and activities to introduce the new campaign to the public. The campaign partners will use this opportunity to promote the campaign objectives and priorities using new campaign strategies and tools.
Advocacy for increased investment on Small-scale agriculture in Nigeria Project aims to operationalise Oxfam's Food Justice campaign supporting food security in Nigeria through recognising and supporting small -scale farmers, advocating for improved quantity and quality of public investment in agriculture, as well as increased women's representation and participation in decision -making at all levels of agricultural governance and production. Value addition will include advocacy and public campaigning, Alliance Building and Networking, capacity building, media engagement and popular mobilisation, for small -scale farmers' organisations, CSOs and organised private sector for campaigns and related activities.
Advocacy and Campaign for increased investments in SSF agriculture in Nigeria The project seeks to include gendered perspectives in both formal and informal peace processes through the active participation of women in their own right as crucial actors in the establishment of sustainable peace. It will increase the voice and participation of women in decision making on conflict prevention, management and resolution in Nigeria and enable women to address the specific concerns around sexual and gender based violence.
Improving Women's Leadership and Effectiveness in the Agricultural Governance Project will support efforts to increase women's leadership and participation in decision -making at all levels of agricultural governance and production through building women's skills and capacity to improve production, income and lead positions in agricultural associations and governance. Action at national, state and local levels and will include in -depth research, knowledge dissemination and support for policy debates that promote fair agricultural legal framework that favours women. It will work with gender advocates, research institutions, women's agricultural machineries and government institutions for change. SCOs 1, 2, 4 and 5.
Raising Voices of Women & Girls & ending all forms of discrimination in Nigeria Research, documentation, engagement with religious, traditional & policy makers, strategic partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).
Global LEAP - Public Finance Accountability in Nigeria 1. An analysis of national and ODA agricultural and Climate Change Association (CCA) investments at the federal level to determine effectiveness of spending in favour of small scale women farmers and improve coordination among donors. 2. Capacity building of farmer and women organisations to follow the money at the local and state levels 3. Documentation of Ogbonge Women impact stories to inform programme planing and fundraising. 4. Production of digital campaign materials – videos, PSA's,  5. Celebrities engagement to include – concerts, media filed visits, advocacy visits to policy makers
Start Fund - Nigeria Alert 676 - Anticipation of Electoral Violence "In the build -up to the 2023 general elections in a few weeks, the political space has been heated up with ongoing campaigns across the presidential candidates and agitations from their supporters virtually, across social media platforms, and with physical encounters some of which have turned violent     The impact could result in loss of lives and properties, loss of livelihoods for those affected and displacement in extreme cases. People are often caught up in conflict as they start and escalate rather rapidly without measures in place to mitigate, minimise impact or provide immediate relief  We are unable to access funding to prepare for preventive, immediate, and interim response to this potential crisis within this time. However, the availability of the Start Fund will enable us to set preventive steps to enable prompt identification of early warning signs of sudden and escalating election violence to enable an early response and mitigation measures towards curtailing the violence.
Access to Water and Flexible Financial Services for SSFs •Detailed analysis of both sectors interest and challenges in Agribusiness and potential for their engagement at appropriate points in a value chain.•Host relevant interactive workshops aimed at bringing small holder farmers and the private sector players together on a platform to facilitate shared interests and business possibilities.•Identify specific private sector players and small holder farmers with potential for agribusiness collaboration
Women4Women Mobile Platform 1. To develop and test an Information Communication Technicology (ICT) women farmers' information system that incorporates a data collection platform that enables field data collection through self reporting by beneficiaries or through independent enumerators.  2. Trading platform where input suppliers and buyers can be brought together to provide services to farmers  - Extension services, marketing prices, weather information 3. A system that empowers farmers especially women to collect information on their farming needs, track public performance policies (for instance, GES, NIRSAL, Insurance...) 4. Provides GIS services to locate farmers and possibly store and retrieve information about them
Innocent - Cash transfers in Gweru , Nigeria ( Oxfam Novib) To meet the basic food needs of families in Gwoza, North East Nigeria (an area which is highly dependent on humanitarian support and is inhabited with relocated Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's)) through provision of unconditional cash transfers.
Empowering smallholder farmers against disaster and emergency impacts in Nigeria The project aims to ensure the preparedness of small scale farmers  for the impacts of disasters and emergencies in view of their vulnerability especially women, and limited capacity to recover from such impacts. The project will facilitate processes that will advocate and support relevant movements for policy reforms and the development of instruments to support SHF in the event of disasters and emergencies. The project also aims to build the adaptive capacity of farmers to these, while reducing their economic losses from disasters and emergencies and facilitation of public support to them. The project supports SCO 1.1, 4, 5.1
Engaging the Private Sector in Strengthening  Agric Sector Livelihoods of SSF •Detailed analysis of both sectors interest and challenges in Agribusiness and potential for their engagement at appropriate points in a value chain.•Host relevant interactive workshops aimed at bringing small holder farmers and the private sector players together on a platform to facilitate shared interests and business possibilities.•Identify specific private sector players and small holder farmers with potential for agribusiness collaboration
Diversifying and Boosting Livestock Production in Sierra Leone To support national effort to reducing poverty and food insecurity through improved governance, production, diversification, services and capacity in the livestock sector of Sierra Leone.
Opportunity Salone Programme Opportunity Salone is part of a larger EU supported Jobs and Growth programme implemented by a number of partners that aims to stimulate job creation by improving the investment climate through enhanced access to finance, improving rural transport infrastructure, and upgrading human capital through general and vocational training and education. Opportunity Salone aims to contribute to more decent job creation in terms of quantity and quality of jobs for women, young women and men and persons with disabilities mainly in rural areas in Sierra Leone through inclusive value chain development focused on SMEs and cooperatives, and feeder road maintenance to improve access to markets. The project will be implemented over a 4-year period with a budget of 8 million Euros and have three interrelated outcomes to address the creation of decent jobs for women, young women and men, and persons with disabilities mainly in rural areas. The project outcomes are:1. Enhanced agricultural value chains and entrepreneurship development contributing to decent work for youth and women.2. Increased feeder road maintenance and decent work for youth and women to enhance market access and support value chain development.3. Conducive business environment for entrepreneurship development and feeder road maintenance to support job creation.
Bandajuma - Liberian border road and bridges The purpose of the project is the transformation from a poor gravel/earth road to a paved highway through two bridge improvements on the Sewa and Waanje river and an entirely new bridge over the Moa River on the Trans-West African Coastal Highway.
Empowered Bombali District Council for efficient service delivery to the citizens The Action seeks to respond to challenges in the district especially in the identified sectors of agriculture, infrastructure and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). To address the identified challenges, the Action uses a two pronged approach firstly; building institutional capacity of the Council to deliver on its mandate of providing improved and sustainable services to the citizens and secondly; broadening the resource base for the Council to generate more revenue at the local level and deliver efficient services to the citizens.The Action contributes to component 1.0 of the 11th EDF programme in Support to Civil Society and Local Authorities for local development in Sierra Leone which focuses on strengthening decentralisation and local governance. Overall, the Action is designed to achieve the following Specific Objectives (SO); 1) Bombali District Council has improved institutional capacity to deliver on its core mandate; 2) Citizens in Bombali District Council are reached with improved and sustainable services in the sectors of agriculture, infrastructure development and gender and social protection; 3) Bombali District Councils revenue base is increased through enhanced revenue collection, management and generation/investment.The Action contributes to realization of the objectives of the District Development Plan for Bombali that was developed through a consultative process taking a meaningful bottom up approach. It is therefore, fully aligned to the aspirations of the people of the district in the identified areas and foresees to generate socio-economic impact in the district.
SUPERVISION OF REMAINING AND ADDITIONAL WORKS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION WORKS OF THE ROADS FROM BANDAJUMA TO LIBERIA BORDER, TOWNSHIP BYPASSES AND THREE BRIDGES <p>Completion of works and execution of additional works, and liability period</p>
Expenditure verification of 4 programme estimates and 1 operating grant <p>Expenditure verification of 5 programme estimates and 1 operating grant</p>-Expenditure verification of 4 programme estimates and 1 operating grant
Activity under preparation EU Support to democracy, peace and social cohesion in Sierra Leone In view of the local, parliamentary and presidential elections forecast in 2023, high political polarisation and a culture of confrontational engagement between political parties, the European Union renews its commitment towards democratic governance in Sierra Leone to support the conduct of peaceful and credible elections and enhance citizens¿ (especially women and youth) participation in electoral processes and political space.The present action aims at consolidating the democratic process in Sierra Leone and at inspiring and supporting change processes undertaken by the National Electoral Commission, Political Parties Registration Commission, Judiciary, Sierra Leone Police and promote rights holders and citizens participation (notably women, girls and youth) in democratic governance and&nbsp;political process through strengthening of CSO-led initiatives, media and democratic institutions (Parliament) supporting transparency and accountability of duty bearers.
Improving the Livelihoods of Sweet Potato Farmers through Crop Post-Harvest-Based Innovation System <p>This Action works towards bettering the infrastructure of an economically viable and self-sustaining sweet potato value chain in Sierra Leone that promotes sustainable growth, and creating jobs in the process. The Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) is selected because of its financial and nutritional potential for farmers and communities.</p>
Activity under preparation Journalists Training on Environment - Support Measures Activity still under preparation: Journalists Training on Environment - Support Measures-Contract related to: Journalists Training on Environment - Support Measures -
Activity under preparation Support Measures for Sierra Leone (AAP 2023) The Action ¿support measures¿ is a flexible tool to:1. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Facilitate the implementation of the MIP2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Increase awareness, understanding and perception of the EU and Global Gateway delivered as Team Europe3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Promote Local Authorities (LA) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as development actors.The action will enhance the EU¿s global agenda, values and positions in Sierra Leone and contribute to build ¿A Stronger Europe¿ in line with the Global Strategy for the European Union¿s Foreign and Security Policy and the Global Gateway agenda. The action will serve the interests of the EU, and of its public, economic and cultural diplomacy - including through strategic communication actions towards the wider public.The action will facilitate a Team Europe approach and help to coordinate, design, implement and assess respective initiatives.
Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Targetted Junior Secondary Schools in Rural Areas in PortLoko District (Lot 15) Rehabilitation and Upgrading of Junior Secondary Schools in the rural areas of Sierra Leone. This includes the provisionof Water and  Sanitation Facilities, solar electricity and in some cases new buildings as classrooms, laboratories or teachers quarters
Enhancing Cocoa, Coffee, Cashew, Horticultural Crops and Livestock Diversification, and Income Generation for Smallholder Farmers and Exports in Sierra Leone. Contract related to: Enhancing Cocoa, Coffee, Cashew, Horticultural Crops and Livestock Diversification, and Income Generation for Smallholder Farmers and Exports in Sierra Leone. - Action Document of the programme supporting the reduction of poverty and food insecurity in SL
Improving Food Security and Increasing Income for Smallholder Farmers Through Sustainable Livestock Production in Sierra Leone This action improves food security and reduce poverty of small holder Livestock farmers (60% women and 25% youth) engaged in value chain activities in five districts of Sierra Leone, contributing to achieving SDG 1 and SDG 2, by diversifying and developing the livestock sector.
Empowered Falaba District Council for Efficient Service Delivery to the Citizens The overall objective of the Action is Local Council's resources base and institutional capacity to sustainably deliver and account for services  are improved; well-managed priority gender-sensitive development actions, consistent with updated existing Local Development Plans, are implemented with EU funding and in cooperation with Civil Society actors.
Multiannual Programme Estimate of the Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS) project The purpose of this PE is to strengthen  the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), enabling it to provide (i) governance to promote increased agricultural production and food security based on sustainable land use concepts and (ii) support to academic and research institutions to increase general education in the sector and, in particular, to create a basic education curriculum in veterinary and animal husbandry subjects.