WEWE Past Projects
WEWE worked on the following projects in the past:
1. Strengthening Advocacy for Civil Education (SACE): This project was implanted in 10 states Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Kano, Imo, Rivers, Edo, Ondo, Lagos States and Abuja FCT and it was to ensure that no less than six of SACE’s grantee partners fully developed the administrative capacity to implement a direct grant from USAID. The duration of the project was August 21st 2017 – August 20th 2018, and it had a budget of N113, 283,084.00. WEWE implemented an Organizational Development project which had a goal to build the capacity of for 17 local CSOs sub-grantees of a sub-contract from USAID funded Strengthening Advocacy and Civic Engagement (SACE) implemented SAII associates limited by guarantee (an associate of Chemonics International Inc.); The project’s goal was to strengthen the institutional capacity gap in 17 CSOs who were SACE sub-grantees in 10 states which include Abuja, Rivers, Kano, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Lagos, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Imo. The project focused on four areas of specialization which include (i) Institutional capacity, (ii) financial Management, (iii) procurement, (iv) fund raising and Report Writing, from August 1, 2017 to October 12, 2018 and the project’s budget was N113, 283,084. (US$ 314,675). The strategy and tools used was training manual and tools and conducting trainings in the form of onsite one on one skill development and workshop trainings one in the south (Imo State) and one in the north (Abuja).
The major results were: Eight (8) of the CSOs who are SACE sub-grantees had adequate systems (organizational, financial, internal control, procurement and fundraising) to directly access USAID grants in Nigeria – CENSOJ, YAF, HDI, ANEEJ, LITE Africa, HERFON, WARDC and CISLAC.
- All 17 CSOs SACE sub-grantees had improved organizational vision, mission/core ideologies.
- Ten (10) CSOs SACE sub-grantees had their policies (Human Resource, Financial and Procurement) revised to meet the minimum global standards
- All the 17 CSOs SACE sub-grantees significantly improved in their Organizational Capacity Assessment (OCA), Non-US Pre-Award Survey (NUPAS), Pre-ward Preparedness Self-assessment tool & Capacity Development Plans (CDP) as compared to baseline assessment.
- There was a significant increase in resource mobilization and proposal writing skills of all the CSOs and 9 of them within 12 months were able to raise over $1 million dollars in grants from donors.
2. Local Partners for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (LOPIN) – Region 2 Project, with a budget of $11,090,990 million US dollars for 5 years 2014 – 2019: The LOPIN 2 Project was a Direct Cooperative Agreement from USAID Nigeria to improve the lives of over 85,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Anambra, Imo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers States from 0-18 and 21,000 adult care givers who received evidence based quality interventions as at March 30, 2018 and 17,000 of these targets are adolescent girls between 10 -18. These services cuts across the four domains “healthy”, “schooled”, “stable” and “safe”, through direct service provision to the child, caregiver, community with emphasis on building household economic resilience.
3. Children of Hope (CH) Project, Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): This project was implemented in Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, Oyo, Edo, FCT and Benue States. The nature of the project was to conduct a grant management program and provide sub-grants of $100,000 to $150,000 per annum to 10 local CBO/FBOs caregivers in 7 states valued at $1,764,996.48 for 2 years. The sub – grants were provided to 10 CBOs & FBOs to reach 11,055 OVC (5,466 males 5,589 female) and 2500 and 11,626 individuals (4974 males, 6652 female) – provided Household Economic Strengthening for over 4000 vulnerable households.
4. WEWE Positive Action Fund Project (PACF): This was implemented in Imo and Abia States, with the aim of providing Prevention of Mother to Children Transmission (PMTCT), providing education and referrals to 750 women of child bearing age in 20 communities. The project spanned from Oct 2012-Jan 2017 and it had a budget of N 34,010,831.
5. FHI 360 Malaria Action Program for States (MAPS): This project was implemented in Oyo State to provide supportive malaria treatment and reduce the incidence of malaria among 1000 vulnerable pregnant women and children under 5 years old by 80% in 20 wards across 5 LGAs in Oyo State. A total of 2,405 Households were reached on malaria prevention. The project was for the period covering Aug 2014- Jan 2015.
