Support Youth to build Peace in Nigeria

New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation (NEEDCSI) has commenced the implementation of the phase 3 of the P/CVE Skills Training in Nigeria. The strategic goal of the project was to prevent the radicalization of youth by strengthening the capacity of local citizens and community organizations through base-level psychosocial training and tools that foster peace and dialogue engagement to support successful rehabilitation and reintegration. 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.

The training is designed to build capacity in the space between emergency and development. The Project has as a core component to provide capacity-building support to strengthen the efforts of local CSOs in Bauchi State, Nigeria, in providing rehabilitation and reintegration support to IDPs, as well as supporting CSOs in their preventing violent extremism (PVE) efforts. The capacity-building training is designed to provide local service providers with tools to assess trauma (not as clinicians, but as community workers supporting individual and community assets) along with strategies designed to build individual and community resiliency.

Links:

• NEEDCSI Trains NGOs, FBOs and CBOs on P/CVE Skills