Creative Minds International Academy

Staff and students of Creative Minds International Academy have been selected to participate in a 2-day Capacity building program for CSOs on the Plateau. The training will hold on January 17-18, 2016, at the TREASURES INN & SUITES, Opposite Airforce Base, Rayfield Road, Jos, Nigeria. Twenty Five (25) Representatives of CSOs, NGOs and FBOs working in Jos North and Jos South Local Government Areas of Plateau State will participate in this training.

This training is part of the NEEDCSI’s Strengthening Citizens Against Radicalization Through Leadership and Re-integration Training in Northern Nigeria- (Project SCARLIT). The overall Goal of this project is to prevent the radicalization of youth by strengthening the capacity of local citizens and community organizations through base-level psycho-social training and tools that foster peace and dialogue engagement to support successful rehabilitation and reintegration. Specifically, the project has as a core component to provide capacity-building support that both strengthens the efforts of local CSOs in providing rehabilitation and reintegration support to IDPs, as well as supporting CSOs in their preventing violent extremism (PVE) efforts as well. 

Typically during conflicts the response from security and humanitarian entities is either emergency assistance which is immediate, or development aid which takes a significantly longer time to realize. Too often services that are needed that lie in between the two response options do not exist. Programming bridges are needed to sustain and promote the empowerment of the individual and community as they move from emergency crisis to long-term sustainability. This is the space that Project SCARLIT fills. This training designed for local CSO staff, inclusive of community-based organizations (CBOs) and local faith-based organizations (FBOs) builds the capacity in the space between emergency and development.