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Christian Aid in Nigeria

Christian Aid has been working in Nigeria since 2003 and has a reputation as an organisation that respects its local partners, delivers quality and cost-effective programmes, and is willing to learn from, and share its learning with, others.

Our vision is for a just, equitable and peaceful Nigerian society, where poverty has been eradicated and every person is empowered to live life in all its fullness.

We seek an end to poverty in Nigeria by challenging systems and structures that perpetuate inequality and favour the rich over the poor. This is done through our three core strategic programme areas:

Governance and social development

  • Humanitarian work

We work to improve the health of poor and marginalised people; raise community voices to demand accountability through advocacy and promoting engagement between people and government; improve gender equity and the participation of women and girls in development initiatives; and respond to humanitarian emergencies to alleviate the suffering of people affected by conflict and disaster.

In recent years, we have adopted a structural approach, incorporating cross-cutting themes such as social and behaviour change communication, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), advocacy and gender into all of our work.

  • Empower poor and marginalised people to make informed decisions about their lives and engage meaningfully in their own development.
  • Improve health for poor and marginalised people, particularly women, children and vulnerable people.
  • Increase government accountability and responsiveness.
  • Encourage the inclusion of women and marginalised groups in decision-making processes. 
  • Improve gender equity and human rights.
  • Ensure fairer distribution of wealth to close the gap between rich and poor.
  • Greater equity and respect for human rights.

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We improve the health of poor and marginalised people, particularly women, children and people with compromised immunity through integrated community-based health interventions, ensuring accountable health governance in communities. We help to strengthen systems that improve access of vulnerable population to health services through advocacy for inclusive health policies. We empower and build the resilience of local communities to take responsibility for their own health, using community participatory tools and social behaviour change communication strategies.

Our governance and gender programme seeks to improve government accountability and responsiveness to the needs of poor and marginalised people. We are helping communities to raise their voices to demand accountability, promoting engagement between people and government and strengthening community structures. We promote inclusive participation by ensuring gender equity and the participation of women and girls in development activities, by challenging harmful socio-cultural norms that make women and girls in Nigeria suffer systematic disadvantages.

Humanitarian response

Increasing insecurity and violence in the northern part of Nigeria has led to millions of people becoming displaced and losing their sources of livelihood. We have built strategic partnerships that have enabled us to respond to the needs of those affected by the crises. We have provided relief to over 400,000 displaced people since this work began in 2016. Our work in north-east Nigeria has improved the food security and livelihoods of internally displaced people in Adamawa, Borno, Benue and Gombe states. Our work cuts across emergency response, livelihoods, protection and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) among the most vulnerable populations in conflict areas.

'We now shine bright like stars'

Where we work

We work in areas where the need is greatest and we have strong existing partnerships. Currently, we operate in 11 states, and have offices in Anambra, Benue, Borno, Kaduna, Plateau, as well as our main country office in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Key achievements

Community health and hiv.

The Strengthening Community Health and HIV Response project, was a 5-year project funded by UK aid which delivered community health and HIV work through trained community health agents. More than 1.6 million people in rural communities were supported to take up health services and adopt preventive health practices.

Our partner, the Association of Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (ASWHAN) , has contributed to the successful campaign for legislation to prohibit discrimination and provide legal protection for the 3.4 million Nigerians living with HIV.

Christian Aid in partnership with the National Association of Faith Leaders Living With/Affected by HIV/AIDS (NINERELA) engages faith communities on HIV/AIDS and on responding to sexual and gender-based violence. The project aims to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination in faith congregations/communities and improve the uptake of HIV services. The project has trained 36 religious leaders on HIV prevention and stigma reduction and mitigation. Almost 6000 people received HIV counselling and testing, while more than 6,000 were reached with interactive online radio with messages on prevention, stigma reduction and mitigation.

Partnership for Improved Child Health (PICH) , a three-year UK Aid Match funded project, aims to expand access to free life-saving treatment for under-fives in hard to reach communities in Benue State. Trained community volunteers treat children affected by malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea. More than 200,000 children have been reached directly and the project has indirectly reached more than 1.5 million people. Health Legacy Strands 2 (HLS2), an add-on nutrition component to PICH is an evidence-based response to malnutrition in children in Benue. HLS2 has distributed 21,000 supplementary food packs since inception.

Christian Aid is delivering Closing the Gap to Sustainable Health Care Access through Health Insurance (CHAIN) in collaboration with the Nigeria Health Watch to lead civil society dialogue and policy-advocacy which improves Nigerians access to healthcare. CHAIN contributed to the process that led to the passing of the Benue State Health Insurance Bill.

Governance and Social Development

Voice to the People (V2P) supported communities in Kaduna state and the south-east region of Nigeria to take ownership of their own development by driving accountability among their governments and leaders, take part in decision-making and raising their voices to demand their rights and services. The UK aid-funded project has reached an estimated 30 million people through social media and radio programmes and has directly supported 52,162 citizens.

The Collective Action for Adolescent Girl Initiative (CAAGI) aims to improve the choices and opportunities for adolescent girls in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, to live more productive and meaningful lives. CAAGI’s major strategies are sensitisation and capacity building especially for faith and traditional leaders, creation of safe space, and community-led advocacy.

Improving Early Warning and Early Response Systems to Strengthen Disaster Preparedness in Nigeria’s Middle Belt (E4E) funded by European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO) aims to influence positive behaviour change of individuals and communities towards both the reduction of flooding in vulnerable areas and early response to flood warnings. The project covers Benue, Kaduna and Plateau states and also seeks to strengthen the efforts of government agencies/authorities towards implementing early warning systems.

Side-by-Side is a growing global movement of people of faith who want to see gender justice become a reality across the world. Through this movement, faith and traditional leaders work together to pursue transformational change for gender justice by addressing the inequality and powerlessness faced by women and girls who suffer systematic disadvantage and discrimination – particularly those who are poor, live in rural areas, and are from particular social groups. Christian Aid is working through a national-level Faith Actors Dialogue Forum across all 36 states.

Building Early Warning Response Systems (BEWERS) focused on working with community members to understand the root causes of conflict. The initiative strengthened relationships between security agencies and communities, and built community resilience to conflict through expanded cooperation, tolerance, understanding and equity. The project worked with religious and traditional leaders, women and youth groups, including artisans. Special consideration was given to people with disabilities to ensure inclusivity.

Humanitarian

Through our humanitarian interventions in north-east Nigeria, we have improved the food security and livelihoods of 27,532 internally displaced people in Adamawa, Borno and Gombe states. We also constructed WASH facilities and conducted WASH sensitisation in communities. Since 2016, Christian Aid has implemented 10 projects, seven of which are still ongoing, reaching more than 400,000 people. Almost 12,000 people have benefited from unconditional cash assistance and 169,000 have been reached with food assistance through our humanitarian work.

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When a plan has a chance to take root and develop over time, then truly transformative change can happen.

This was the opportunity the Women for Health project in Nigeria had during its 8-year run. Funded by  UK aid and delivered by DAI  Global Health , a development consultancy, the programme set out to train thousands of women in nursing and midwifery in six states in the largely rural north of Nigeria between 2012 and 2020.

But in the end their work achieved so much more besides.

The work sustained development in two major ways: it addressed the acute shortage of health workers in rural communities, helping to save the lives of pregnant women and newborns by increasing the number of midwives; and it transformed attitudes to women in work.

By working closely with state governments, the programme increased capacity at 24 health training institutions in the six states — improving teaching and facilities, and increasing the number of students able to enrol. 

Total student capacity in the colleges grew by more than 250%, with the proportion of women enrolling increasing to around 60% in some colleges,  organisers said.

Project leaders set up a successful Foundation Year Programme (FYP), which provides a year of learning and support for female trainees from rural areas to help them qualify for professional nursing and midwifery courses. Beneficiaries commit to return and serve their community for two years after graduation.

So far, 2,860 women from nearly 1,000 small rural communities have taken part in FYP, with 556 already graduating — 77% of whom have been employed and posted to rural settings.

Dr. Fatima Adamu, the national programme manager for the Women for Health programme,  said that she had seen a transformation in attitudes towards women working during her time in the role. In these communities, social norms had prevented women from being attended by male health workers — and made it impossible for women to leave to study.

“The success of Women for Health is not only about increasing the number of female health workers, and deploying them to rural areas, it’s the way in which we have kick-started the transformation of gender relationships,” Adamu explains .

She said that overcoming perceptions about women’s role in society was a key challenge — but doing so reaped huge rewards. “Women [now] see themselves as agents of change… and are valued and seen to be an important player in community development,” she added.

Research conducted by the programme found that 95% of FYP students said their communities now show greater support for women’s employment — and 82% say the FYP enabled them to develop careers and become local champions.

Adamu went on to explain in that the  insecurity caused by terrorist groups operating in northern Nigeria had posed huge challenges to the programme when it expanded into Borno state in 2018. The programme adapted its approach to take into account the trauma experienced by the majority of students, many of whom were recruited from internally-displaced persons camps across the state.

As part of their studies, trainees worked with women community leaders to provide health and hygiene awareness training to families living in the camps. Their presence “offered hope as role models to girls in the camps,” Adamu said. 

Inspiring others

While Women for Health came to an end October 2020, the eight years spent improving health care and training women has appeared to have had much more permanent effect.

The governments of each state the project was operating in — Borno, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Yobe, and Zamfara — have passed laws committing them to continue financial support for training in health care, while six neighbouring states in the region were inspired to begin establishing similar programmes.

At Bayero University, in the capital of Kano state, Women for Health established a  Human Resources for Health Learning Hub — creating a space for learning and training to continue after the end of the DAI Global Health Programme.

And, as Adamu reflects, it’s had an effect beyond health care. “Now it’s very common in Women for Health communities to see some members of the community encouraging girls to go to school.”

She added: “It’s that change, for me, that is the most important thing.”

This story is part of a new series from Global Citizen called “ UK Aid Works” — a collection of stories about health care development projects supported by Britain’s aid budget, collated by Action for Global Health UK (AfGH) , an influential membership network convening more than 50 organisations working in global health.

In September, the Department for International Development (DfID) merged with the Foreign Office (FCO) to form the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO). At a time when the future of poverty-focused aid is under threat, it’s crucial that we hold onto programmes like these that focus on the world’s most vulnerable people. These stories are about the types of initiatives that we must strive to protect. You can check out more stories like this here — and call on the foreign secretary to ensure that aid is transparent and accountable here .

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UKAid to Kick-off £170m Education Programme in Nigeria

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The United Kingdom (UK) Aid via its Department for International Development (DFID) will kick-off a £170m new education programme Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria this year.

These are all part of the process to ensuring Nigeria’s achieves the SDG 4 – inclusive and quality education for all its citizens.

DFID Representative, Simmons Field, made the announcement at the 2019 Nigeria Annual Education Conference held in Abuja.

Addressing the crisis of learning in Nigeria’s education system and the importance of data in improving quality and inclusive education for all Nigerian children, Field says the programme will “use the best existing national and international evidence to enable more inclusive and effective state and non-state systems to deliver foundation skills for all children.”

While recognising that Nigeria has impressively expanded access to schooling in the past decades, she says learning crisis exists in Nigerian schools where many children graduate from primary schools without basic numeracy and literacy skills.

DFID, she says focuses on addressing the learning crisis at its root via supporting basic level learning for children.

The new programme, she adds, will build on the previous and existing support that UK has provided to Nigeria’s education sector via projects as Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN), Support to Improve and Increase Service and In-service Teacher Education (TDP) Support to Low Cost Private Education, Support to Girls Education implemented by UNICEF and Education and Emergency Support in Borno and Yobe states.

According to an online source Dev Tracker, the programme will benefit about two million Nigerian children by supporting the federal government in selected states and non-state partners to improve teaching, school quality, education management and efficient delivery of education.

“Education is the key priority for UK. The UK places a high value on using evidence to inform planning and assess performance. Evidence helps us all to focus on the most critical needs, a guide to somehow respond to challenges and keep us accountable to the results that we have committed to deliver,” Field emphasises.

Meantime, the UN says it’s in a position to help Nigeria address the crisis in learning in her education system via its ‘elaborative and validated document the UN Sustainable Development Partnership Framework 2018-2022’.

“UNESCO 2018 Education Global Monitoring Report states that many children are still out of school. Many in schools are not learning. Also, an increasing number of graduates are not adequately prepared. Quality education must be evidence-based and reflect a long term strategic and holistic approach to education towards the promotion of inclusive, equitable, quality and lifelong learning opportunities.”

UNESCO Regional Director and Representative, Mr. Yao Ydo, says the partnership signed by the UN and the Nigerian government is a UN’s collective support and response to the Nigeria’s development initiative with regards to economic recovery, growth plans of the SDGs, the African Union Agenda 2063 among others.

It also encapsulates Nigeria’s changing economy, social and environmental condition and is a “strategic framework to assist and address development challenges.

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Funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), UK Aid Direct supported small and medium sized civil society organisations (CSOs), based in the UK and overseas, to achieve sustained poverty reduction and the United Nations's Global Goals.

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The Lafiya programme is a seven-year UK Government supplier contract through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office which began in February 2020. The programme is delivered by a consortium of seven partners led by the Palladium Group and its objective is to contribute to improving health outcomes for the poorest and most vulnerable in Nigeria through: –

  • encouraging the Government of Nigeria to increase resources invested in health;
  • improving effectiveness and efficiency of public and private basic health for services; and
  • improved access to modern contraceptive methods.

LAMP is developing a VFM strategy and customized framework for the Lafiya programme, providing insights, analysis and technical assistance to identify opportunities to improve VfM from project inception and throughout implementation. LAMP will also train Lafiya staff to produce routine VfM reports against agreed indicators and the routine application of VfM principles in ensuring resources are well managed.

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International Aid in Nigeria

What is international aid.

International aid is help given by one country to another. Aid can be given as advice, technology, food and money. Typically, aid is given to low-income countries (LICs) and newly-emerging economies (NEEs) by high-income countries (HICs).

Aid can be given by national governments, international organisations, charities and non-government organisations (NGOs). The United Nations set HICs a target of committing 0.7% of their GDP to aid. The UK achieved this in 2013.

Why does Nigeria need aid?

The graph below shows the amount of aid received by Nigeria between 1960 and 2016.

One of the main reasons why Nigeria receives a considerable amount of aid is due to the significant inequality of wealth within the country. According to the UK Department for International Development (DFID) , despite having the largest economy in Africa, around a third of Nigerians (60 million) live below the national poverty line, with around another third just above. The graph below shows the proportion of Nigerians living in extreme poverty.

Other issues in Nigeria include:

  • a low life expectancy at 53.87 in 2017 according to the World Bank
  • high birth rates at 5.5 children per woman
  • the high infant mortality rate at 100 child deaths under-5 (per 1,000 live births)
  • low literacy rates with only 44% of children attending secondary school
  • only 42% of children aged 12-23 months are immunised against measles
  • violence and protests occur in the Niger Delta relating to oil wealth and its impact on the environment
  • terrorism in the north, by groups such as Boko Haram
  • the high death rate from Malaria

Most aid comes from countries like the UK and USA, but organisations like The World Bank and charities also provide support. The most successful aid projects are small and community-based, supported by charities and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). These deliver help directly where needed so that no money is wasted.

What are the issues with giving aid to Nigeria?

Aid isn’t always used effectively in Nigeria because:

  • Corruption in the government and individuals means aid is lost or not given to the right people
  • There have been claims aid money has been used to supply the Navy
  • Donors of aid may have political influence over who does and does not benefit. In addition, they may use donations to promote themselves.

Few governments or international agencies now give aid directly to the Nigerian government.

How does Nigeria benefit from aid?

  • Nets for Life project provides education on Malaria and give mosquito nets to households to prevent the spread of the disease.
  • World Bank-funded loans to businesses to help diversify the economy away from being dependent on oil so that new companies and industries are developed.
  • The UK government has funded health and HIV programmes providing health and education in rural areas. This will help to protect people against infection in the future and help them to work and improve their own lives.

Find out more about the UK’s contribution to aid in Nigeria on the Department for International Development Aid to Nigeria factsheet .

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Foreign aid as a ratio to the Gross Domestic Income for Sub-Saharan (SSA) countries has been on the rise from an estimated 4% in 1970 to around 17-20% in 2013. However, the causality of foreign aid on economic development has been weak for SSA countries. The weak relationship between economic development and foreign aid is what motivates the pursuit of this study. The objective of this paper is to explore the nature of, and if there is a significant part, relationship on the puzzle of foreign aid and economic development in the SSA countries. The study uses a qualitative method employing literature to sift out themes that are of use in order to meet the objective. The findings of the study indicate that foreign aid has been increasing whilst there is no positive response from the economic development front for the aid receiving countries. Also the findings of our study indicate that foreign aid has caused corruption and inefficiency to increase in the aid receiving countries. Lastly, there are countries that have become aid dependent, in funding their budgets, again, and worsening inefficiency. Policy recommendations arising from the findings point mainly to two things. Sub-Saharan countries need to strongly adopt a zero tolerance to corruption so that national resources are devoted to where they benefit the country at large. Secondly, the study recommends that Sub-Saharan countries need to shun aid and start to mobilise resources domestically so that the dependency syndrome can be dealt with.

Keely Badger

With western aid, we are found wanting. Sometimes described as the “opiate of the Third World” , “aid as imperialism” , a “vicious cycle” and “dead aid as the story of failure of post-war development policy” , controversy over the flow of foreign aid into Africa since independence is one that has garnered contentious political, social, and economic critique. In fact, as Zambian author Dambisa Moyo proclaims: “aid has become a cultural commodity. Millions march for it. Governments are judged for it. But has more than US$1 trillion in development assistance over the last several decades made African people better off?” For the region of sub-Sahara Africa, the answer is a resounding no.

Nathan Andrews

Evidence of ineffective foreign assistance is widespread in Africa. The debate on how aid can be effective and contribute to Africa’s development is, however, still ongoing without any clear way forward. This paper adopts a deductive approach to explaining aid and development in Africa. There is a high volume of literature on the impact of foreign aid on development in Africa, yet not many of them recognize all the factors that contribute to aid (in) effectiveness. The focus is often on macro-economic indicators which do not fairly represent the realities of poverty and suffering in many African countries. We offer an analysis of the theories that have been propounded to explain the relationship between aid and (under) development in Africa. In this paper, we critically examine such findings and test their validity against the backdrop that socio-cultural factors have not been given adequate consideration.

Sylviane Guillaumont

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Xhensila Gaba

For more than forty years, since the colonization period ended and the structural adjustments of African economies began, up to nowadays, there has been a huge inflow of money towards Africa, particularly to the Sub-Saharan Countries (SSC), which are ranked among the most aid-dependent countries including Malawi, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo and Niger (Abuzeid, 2009). The international community has taken the responsibility to narrow the income gap between rich/developed countries and poor/developing ones through the mechanism of transferring money or capital under the foreign assistance programs. Media has played a significant role in appealing empathy to the public by transmitting a despairing and hopeless reality in Africa (Mwenda, 2008). Hence the criteria that has qualified Africa for aid is poverty relief. However, despite the good intentions of the international community, Africa is still suffering from famine, hunger, disease and conflict. One has the right to raise doubts with regard to the effectiveness of foreign aid. Has it improved or impoverished the economic reality of most aid-dependent African countries? The purpose of this paper is to approach foreign aid through economic lenses by reframing the role of aid in the economic growth equation of the developing countries. Is aid’s impact as benevolent as the intentions of the donors? The methodology consists of a qualitative deductive approach through critically assessing the existing literature and analyzing how aid fits or misfits in the macroeconomic models. The relationship between aid and growth (the two main variables, the former independent, the latter dependent) is indirectly analyzed through explaining the relation between the two intervening variables in the model (public finances-enterprise). The paper concludes by emphasizing how foreign aid has now become the problem, and not the solution since Africa is still caught in the “poverty trap”. Moreover, the last section focuses on a better assessment of the foreign aid system and suggests on how to improve it in order to help Africa undress its veil of pity-appealing and “walk on its own feet”.

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  1. UK-Nigeria development partnership summary , July 2023

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  4. UK's £38 million aid making a difference in Nigeria

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  5. "Securitized" UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria

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    Christian Aid ran the project from September 2016 to September 2019, working with local health organisations in Nigeria's south-west Benue State, to target diseases like malaria, pneumonia, and diarrhoea. Benue State has child mortality rates above the already high national average for Nigeria, the NGO explains.

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    Why DFID is investing in Nigeria. Nigeria is Africa's biggest country by population and its second largest economy. It has the world's 10th largest proven oil reserves and the 9th largest natural gas reserves. The UK-Nigeria trade relationship was worth £4 billion in 2015 and has the potential to grow significantly in the future.

  8. "Securitized" UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria

    "Securitized" UK aid projects in Africa: Evidence from Kenya, Nigeria and South Sudan Ivica Petrikova Melita Lazell First published: 17 February 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12551

  9. Christian Aid in Nigeria

    i Where we work Christian Aid in Nigeria Christian Aid has been working in Nigeria since 2003 and has a reputation as an organisation that respects its local partners, delivers quality and cost-effective programmes, and is willing to learn from, and share its learning with, others.

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    This was the opportunity the Women for Health project in Nigeria had during its 8-year run. Funded by UK aid and delivered by DAI Global Health, a development consultancy, the programme set out to train thousands of women in nursing and midwifery in six states in the largely rural north of Nigeria between 2012 and 2020.

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    The United Kingdom (UK) Aid via its Department for International Development (DFID) will kick-off a £170m new education programme Partnership for Learning for All in Nigeria this year. These are all part of the process to ensuring Nigeria's achieves the SDG 4 - inclusive and quality education for all its citizens.

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    countries through evaluating projects funded by "securitized" UK aid. The article assesses all DFID "securitized aid" projects, 144 in total, funded in three African countries over the last two decades. (The projects are listed in Appendix 1.) Our analysis finds that while on paper most of the projects

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