CEHRD’s campaigns for the environmental rights of Bodo people
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Environment & Conservation
Rivers and Bayelsa States Capacity Building Trainings for Community Oil Spill Monitors Phase One
CEHRD organised training of community monitors in Bori, Khana Local Government Area in Rivers state on the 4th of May 2016, while the training of community monitors in Bayelsa state was held on the 26th of March 2016 in the state capital, Yenagoa. The Bayelsa zonal office director and other officials from NOSDRA were in …
Rivers and Bayelsa States Capacity Building Training for Community Oil Spill Monitors Phase Two
CEHRD organised the second phase of trainings for the Rivers state community monitors on the 18th of August 2016, in Bori, Khana Local Government Area in Rivers State. Also, the second phase of trainings for the Bayelsa state community monitors was held on the 26th of August 2016 at the state capital, Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. The trainings were …
CEHRD Staff Training and Development
During the year 2016, CEHRD trained its staff in the areas of proposal writing and fund raising, project design, reporting, monitoring and evaluation, advocacy and institutional engagement. CEHRD staff also participated in other training activities organised by other organisations, partners and stakeholders.
THE TRUE TRAGEDY
‘‘In August and December 2008, two major oil spills disrupted the lives of the 69,000 or so people living in Bodo, a town in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. Both spills continued for weeks before they were stopped. Estimates suggest that the volume of oil spilled was as large as the Exxon Valdez spill in …
ANOTHER BODO OIL SPILL
This briefing paper focuses on the investigation into the cause and extent of the June 2012 Bodo oil spill. Oil spill investigations in the Niger Delta have been repeatedly criticized because they are controlled by the oil companies, because they lack transparency and because systemic flaws in the process have never been addressed. The oil …
CLEAN IT UP
Every year there are hundreds of oil spills in the Niger Delta, caused by old and poorly maintained pipelines or criminal activity such as oil theft. These spills have a devastating impact on the fields, forests and fisheries that the majority of the people in the region depend on for their food and livelihoods. Oil …
Water Monitoring Report on Eleme LGA
The local monitoring project team organised a focus group discussion (FDG) for community representatives from Ogale community to have a clear picture of the present state of water supply from the Eleme Water Supply Scheme. To fully understand the challenges faced by the target community, the team further conducted field monitoring and subsequently developed an …
Development of a Pro-Poor Oil and Gas Policy
In the process of developing the pro-poor oil and gas advocacy policy, CEHRD programme team with support from CORDAID had consultations in 17 communities in Gokana local government area, which includes: Kporghor in Tai local government, and Kono in Khana local government area. A conference was held to validate the policy draft. The policy was …
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