Advocacy visits to government agencies were facilitated and implemented by CEHRD in collaboration with the citizen journalists, Justice Empowerment Initiative, and the Nigerian Slum Federation. The visits were geared towards facilitating inclusive dialogue between the government and the waterfront communities with a view to developing partnerships aimed at addressing these identified challenges holistically. Key stakeholders …
An Independent Community Media Hub was set up by CEHRD. This community hub is providing ICMAP citizens journalist the independent space to develop their own content, policy focus strategies, and target groups for inclusive development under the ICMAP project. The independent media hub has also continued the mentoring of trained ICMAP participants on content development …
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CORDAID Lobby & Advocacy Capacity Assessment of Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) as part of the requirements of the Strategic Partnership Lobby & Advocacy (L&A) and planning for 2018. The meeting held on Thursday. October 12th, 2017 from 8:30 am to 12 noon in the Ken Saro Wiwa hall of fame, Legacy …
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Counting the Cost: Corporations and human rights abuses in the Niger Delta. You can download the report below:
CEHRD held her staff retreat from 27th to 30th October, 2016 at Eket, Akwa Ibom state. The retreat was used to review the strengths and weakness, opportunities and threats in the Niger Delta in relation to CEHRD’s works in the region. The organisational strategic plan from 2016 to 2018 and programmes were reviewed, way forward …
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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.
Shell is responsible for a toxic legacy in the Niger Delta. People are dying, sick, can’t feed themselves and have no clean water because Shell destroyed their environment by drilling for oil. UNEP researched the destruction, publishing a report in 2011. The report concluded that Shell had not taken sufficient action to clean up and …
Three years after the publication of a groundbreaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland, the people of Ogoniland continue to suffer the effects of fifty years of an oil industry which has polluted their land, air and water. The oil company Shell and the Nigerian Government have both failed …
Hundreds of oil spills occur in Nigeria every year, causing significant harm to the environment, destroying local livelihoods and placing human health at serious risk. 1. These spills are caused by corrosion, poor maintenance of oil infrastructure, equipment failure, sabotage and theft of oil. For the last decade oil companies in Nigeria – in particular …
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