Rural Health & Community Development
Rural Health & Community Development
CEHRD is concerned about the health of the rural Niger Delta community members. This Program area seeks to address issues of rural health. CEHRD runs this program to create awareness, better knowledge, and provide active health care for the rural people in the Niger Delta geographic communities. We also promote health protection through enlightenment, and outreach campaigns against prevalent diseases such as tuberculosis, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, etc, and planned parenting.
CEHRD is experienced in the execution of Health Programs in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and in collaboration with other organization, have participated and implemented diverse health projects. We have collaborated with Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) to implement a lot of interventions in the health sectors in Rivers, Cross Rivers, Ebonyi and Imo States.
CEHRD promotes sustainable development of the community in partnership with government where appropriate. However, we oppose ill-planned Development Projects that neglect input from local peoples, including destroying the basis of their rural livelihood and economies. We also promote human rights based development.
It is obvious that due to the unevenness in evolution of societies, the development process is often initiated and led by certain categories of people in the community privileged by its history to be influential –the top-down approach often lead to “dumped development”. Nevertheless, the development process can only be successful if along the way, there emerge a collectively enlightened people. Apart from this, we are left with a community of beggars and benefactors.
Over the years, CEHRD has carefully ensured that its activities are not influenced by politicians. This has been maintained through non acceptance of grants or gratifications from government, oil and gas multinationals or their agencies. The revenue accrued from crude oil which contributes to over 90% of the national revenue, since 1965, predominantly returns to the pocket of those in power and their allies.
Program Reports and Publications
K-Dere Community women representatives during scoping Focus Group Discussion on ESHRIA project funded by Cordaid
K-Dere Community women representatives during scoping Focus Group Discussion during implementation of deepening awareness and mainstreaming of environmental, social and human rights impact assessments (ESHRIA) in …
Mediation And Dialogue Facilitation Training For LPC In Omoku
From 4th to 7th of May, 2015, CEHRD Field Officer was at Omoku to support SFCG Field Officer for Rivers state and SFCG Lead Master …
Advanced Advocacy Step-Down Training For 30 Women In Kpor
CEHRD program team supported the SFCG Field officers for Rivers state to conduct a step-down training on advanced advocacy in Kpor community for the women …
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 …
Tomorrow Is A New Day I and II (Supporting Community-Level Conflict Resolution and Reintegration of Ex-agitators to Promote Stability in the Niger Delta)
Barriers to reintegration and community healing, including bad attitudes and mind set, lack of information or misinformation, and lack of concrete opportunities, was reduced in …
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 …
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