CORAFID welcomes you!

1. CORAFID
Civil Organisations Research, Advocacy & Funding Initiatives Development
Organisational
Profile
OFFICE ADDRESS
No.7 Agagbe Road, Naka Gwer West LGA
P.O Box 1298, Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria,
e-mail: ngo.corafid@yahoo.com
Contact: +2348066559669, +2348024131087

2. INTRODUCTION
The Civil Organisation Research Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development
(CORAFID) is a Non-governmental and non-profit organisation,
contributing to sustainable grassroots development since 2002.
WHEN IT WAS ESTABLISHED
Envisioned 1999 and registered 28th February, 2002 in Benue State, Nigeria.
ADDRESS AND ACCESSIBILITY MAP
Civil Organisations Research Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID)
No.7 Agagbe Road, Naka Gwer West LGA; P.O Box 1298, Makirdi, Benue State.
This route is cost effective for travelers from Northern Nigeria
Elsewhere in Nigeria
Makurdi Township
Makurdi Modern Market
Ankpa Road
To the right
Leftwards
NAKA
No 7
Agagbe Road
Leftwards
Turn left
Naka Rou ndabout
CORAFID Via Adoka
OFFICE
Ankpa Makurdi Park
Elsewhere in Nigeria
This route is cost effective for travelers in Western Eastern and Southern Nigeria
CONTACT PERSON
Nathaniel Msen Awuapila MIAM,
Executive Facilitator.
TELEPHONE
+2348066559669; +2348024131087

3. BANK ACCOUNT
Civil Organisations Research Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID) 2011851657
(First Bank of Nigeria)
WEBSITE/E-MAIL/FACEBOOK/SLIDESHARE/YAHOOGROUP
ngo.corafid@yahoo.com
http://facebok/Corafid Nigeria
http://www.slideshare.net/Awuapila/
http://LetsTalkDevelopment@yahoogroups.com
OUR FOUNDING
CORAFID was conceived in 1999 and first registered as an association on February 28 2002, in Benue
State, Nigeria, by the Gwer West Local Council, under the name of Civil Organisations Research,
Advocacy and Funding Initiatives Development (CORAFID). Its registration with the Benue State
Government and the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) of Nigeria began almost simultaneously in
2003 under the name of Civil Organisations Research, Advocacy, and Funding Network (CORAF-
NETWORK). However, institutional restructuring further necessitated a change of name. The
organisation continued to operate under its first name until late 2010 when an executive decision was
taken to re-start incorporation of the NGO under the name of CORAFID International.
OUR BASIC INSPIRATION
The task of establishing CORAFID by its Initiator had been a pressing heart-yearning that stretched
back to 1999. The initiator was inspired by the strong conviction that:
 Every (Nigerian) citizen deserves to live a noble and happy life since each person is of the living
God whose spirit is in us. The United Nations Universal Declaration also professes the fundamental
rights of all humans.
 Every (Nigerian) child deserves the warmth and love of parents, who should not have to slave under
inhuman conditions daily before they can secure a decent meal and secured shelter for the family.
Excessive energy expended on earning a living threatens family stability and portends an ill-
cultivated community and nation.
 Children below employment age should not have to work under unduly strenuous conditions. They
should have access to education and professional training and allowed to grow up at their own pace
into thriving youthfulness, rather than forced prematurely into the job market.
 (Nigerian) citizens should be assured of viable employment opportunities and their work
environment adequately protected against conditions that threaten their human dignity, because
how well one works and how much one produces are only equal to the nature of environment
in which the work is done.
 Families should be assured of safe, free, friendly, supportive work and home environment, such
atmosphere of mutuality where rights meet responsibilities, thus directly eliciting the felt commitment
to participate in collective community building practices and processes where each person plays
their roles as they could, to contribute toward achieving the collective good.

4.  An appropriate civil society platform requires to be created to bring to fore, gaps in civil society
interventions touching on the foregoing pertinent areas, and to galvanise collaborative effort toward
addressing such gaps in an effective and timely manner, based on the principles of sustainable
development.
VISION
CORAFID envisions a society that is well coordinated to support the needs and aspirations of ordinary
citizens and communities, a society that integrates them all in each national development programme.
MISSION
Our mission is to enhance civil society effort at mainstreaming the grassroots on national agenda
through innovation and cooperation with appropriate stakeholders.
OUR MOTTO
Sustainable development first!
AIMS/OBJECTIVES
1. To represent the best interest of civil society in its quest for socio-economic prosperity and
sustainable development;
2. To generate and/or utilize appropriate networks and other instruments for enhanced civil society
awareness of its situations, challenges, problems, and opportunities;
3. To create and/or utilize mechanisms that shall guarantee satisfaction of the lawful aspirations of the
ordinary citizens;
4. To advocate for organised grassroots-driven development funding initiatives;
5. To support initiatives that address core development problems to do with the root causes of
disease, ignorance, injustice and poverty;
6. To collaborate with relevant bodies to promote sustainable development practices and structures;
7. To investigate the direction of local and national institutional activities and programmes, based on
global sustainable development principles and standards.
OUR PROGRAMMES AND INTEREST AREAS
CORAFID has three (3) program areas, including:
1. Citizenship and Governance Program (CiGoP), promotes
1.1. Civic and peace education for in-school and out-of-school youth
1.2. Grassroots engagement in governance
1.3. Social protection
2. Resource Development and Education Program (ReDEP), supports
2.1. Education of the girl-child, OVC, and other vulnerable groups, especially youth
2.2. Income Generating Activities (IGAs) and wealth-building
2.3. Community funding initiatives
2.4. Entrepreneurship training and development
3. Women Action Strategy Program (WASP), concerned with
3.1. Gender and Social Justice
3.2. Conflict transformation
3.3. Women and governance
3.4. Maternal and child health
3.5. Environmental wellbeing

5. OUR APPROACH TO ISSUES AND CONCERNS
Founded on February 28 2002 in Benue State, CORAFID has over the past several years worked
mainly at the grassroots level, being registered also at the local level, and has promoted the participation
of community-based groups in development activities through joint needs appraisal and action planning,
training, mentoring, and collaboration, has partnered with stakeholders in the educational and social
sectors to improve the lot of OVCs through resource access measures to benefit caregivers, has offered
or secured scholarships to educate and train OVCs, has established school-based and out-of-school
youth clubs to mentor children and the youth on matters of personal integrity and commitment to
peaceful living, as well as has supported institutional strengthening projects to benefit our partners.
CORAFID is member of several coalitions and networks including West Africa Network for
Peacebuilding (WANEP) Nigeria, of which CORAFID’s Executive Facilitator serves as North Central
Zonal Early Warning Analyst; Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL); Benue
State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN), of which CORAFID is a founding member plus our Executive
Facilitator serves as pioneer Chairman; Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), of which
CORAFID serves as Gwer West L.G.A. Coordinator, having previously served as Assistant Secretary to
the State Coordinating Committee. CORAFID has longstanding partnership relations with Justice,
Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), currently serving on JDPC’s Core Team for Makurdi
Diocese, as well as has worked with various NGOs on issue-specific projects. Over the past years we
have organized a sensitization forum on Nigeria’s Micro-finance policy for CBOs and Government at the
Local Level in Gwer West L.G.A. of Benue State (2007); we partnered with OLAM/USAID MARKETS
Nigeria Ltd, Makurdi, to achieve credit access and then assured product market for our rice producing
groups from our member-CBOs (since 2007); we have partnered with the Women Environmental
Program (WEP) to train grassroots women groups on soil conservation and water harvesting, as well as
served on their consultancy teams to train high-level representatives on Nigeria’s National Gender
Policy (Feb. 2008) as well as provided several capacity building services to their subsidiary organization,
the Federation of Urban Poor (FEDUP), Abuja (since 2008).
CORAFID has partnered with over 40 CBOs since inception and has established, in 2010, an auxiliary
platform known as Nigeria CBO Forum (NCBOF is a coalition platform for community-based actors) to
ensure ongoing experience sharing among CBOs in Nigeria as well as joint initiatives with other NGOs
and development partners to support capacity building of local actors toward viable participation in
governance and sustainable development and to promote community-driven approaches to
development projects. Nigeria CBO Forum is currently being incorporated by the Corporate Affairs
Commission of Nigeria under the name of Association for Human Advancement (AHA). Earlier in
2006, the CORAFID Cooperative Society Ltd was established to achieve ongoing economic
empowerment support to our member CBOs. The cooperative, which was registered by the Benue State
Ministry for Commerce and Industries, is CORAFID’s first auxiliary platform and regularly
designs/implements initiatives to promote income generating activities among our members, develops
options for further growth of enterprise initiatives and supports agro-processing, credit access, market
development, and general capacity development. Our children and youth participating in our school-
based and out-of-school clubs, upon graduation, have an opportunity to continue contributing to social

6. development through our third auxiliary platform known as Project Zero Redundancy (PZR, PZR
Network), also created in 2010. PZR Network, however, also leverages on the commitment of
professional and self-employed youths across the country that enroll on our mentoring schedule, to
serve as competent mentors to fellow Nigerian youths. As at February 2011 we have 4 Peer Mentoring
Teams (PMTs) on the platform of PZR Network in Abuja FCT. CORAFID also has established a fourth
auxiliary platform to coordinate our key partnerships with stakeholders in the social sector including
educational and other professional institutions. This platform, known as Br Dominic Erhmantraut FSC
Centre for Learning and Development (DECLeD), named after the Initiator’s highly cherished mentor,
Br Dominic Erhmantraut FSC, currently is key implementer of a partnership understanding with De La
Salle Brothers, otherwise known as Brothers of the Christian Schools and the Parents’, Teachers’
Association of Mt La Salle College, Naka, Benue State, Nigeria. The partnership seeks to support
development initiatives of De La Salle Brothers, through targeted capacity development, institution
building, and resource mobilization. Through DECLeD we have initiated an organization to promote the
cause of De La Salle Brothers in Nigeria by the name of St John (Baptist) de la Salle Foundation and
the process of its incorporation by the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria (CAC) is ongoing since
July 2011. DECLeD is also set for incorporation under a name to be approved by the Corporation Affairs
Commission of Nigeria
In December 2010 CORAFID also initiated the CORAFID Savings and Internal Lending Scheme
(CSILS) as part of widening opportunities by our members to step up their capacities for income
generating and wealth building initiatives. Note that CORAFID has 3 program lines/interests including
Citizenship and Governance Programme (CiGoP), Resource Development and Education Programme
(ReDEP), and Women Action Strategy Programme (WASP). CSILS addresses ReDEP’s 2 nd core
objective, which is to support income generating activities (IGAs) and wealth-building. CSILS also
promotes CiGoP’s 3rd core objective, which is promotion of social protection among target communities.
Whereas CORAFID Cooperative Society Ltd has intervened to date by way of partnership, mainly with
OLAM/USAID MARKETS, to promote agricultural activities among our members, CSILS shall be the
society’s second arm, providing savings and loaning opportunities to member CBOs that are affiliated to
Nigeria CBO Forum now being reconstituted under the name of Association for Human Advancement.
SOME OF OUR PARTNERS SINCE 2002
 Gwer-West Local Government, Benue State
 Justice Development and Peace Commission[JDPC], Makurdi diocese, Benue
 PATHS Benue (now in Abuja)
 Central Bank of Nigeria, North Central Zonal HQ
 OLAM/USAID Nig. Ltd.
 Women Environmental Programme (WEP), Abuja
 SWAAN Benue
 West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP Nigeria)
 Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN)
 Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN)
 23 partner member CBOs/CDAs of the Grassroots Forum and CORAFID cooperative.

7. OUR TARGET GROUPS
 WASP targets women and children
 ReDEP targets children and youths
 CGP targets women and youth.
OUR MEMBERSHIP OF NETWORKS AND COALITIONS
 Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN), Rm 21, Benue State Secretariat, Ministry for
Women Affairs and Social Development (MWASD), Makurdi Benue State. +2348066559669
 Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), 1st Floor, NACRDB, Otukpo Road, Makurdi.
Telephone: +2348065574167
 Nigeria Youth Network on HIV/AIDS, Population and Development Activities (NYNETHA), EVA
Secretariat, Beside Ashby Investment House, Wurukum Makurdi.
 West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP Nigeria) Telephone: +2348038306615
 Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) Telephone: +2348052730312
 The Justice Development and Peace Commission Peace Team (currently supported by
Misereor Germany). Ahmadu Commasse Road, Demekpe, Makurdi. Telephone:
+2347030355221
OUR CURRENT ROLES IN THE VARIOUS NETWORKS AND COALITIONS
 On the Benue State Child Protection Network (BnSCPN), CORAFID is a founding member and
CORAFID’s Executive Facilitator, Mr Nathaniel Msen Awuapila, currently chairs the network,
which comprises 25 NGOs and CBOs drawn from across the state, July 28 2011.
 On the Association of OVC NGOs in Nigeria (AONN), CORAFID served as Assistant State
Secretary during the previous administration and now has responsibility for coordinating Gwer
West L.G.A. on behalf of the Network. Gwer West is one of 23 L.G.As. in the State, since March
2011.
 On West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Nigeria (WANEP Nigeria), CORAFID’s Executive
Facilitator serves as the Network’s Early Warning Analyst with responsibility over North Central
Nigeria, since June 2011.
 On Justice Development and Peace Commission partnership platform, CORAFID serves on a
5-member Core Team for the Commission and has responsibility for monitoring and reporting
on conflict situations in Gwer East, Gwer West, and Konshisha L.G.As., since June 2009.
 Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL). CORAFID is a member
organization.
 Nigeria Youth Network on HIV/AIDS, Population and Development Activities (NYNETHA).
CORAFID is a member organization.
LINE OF AUTHORITY
 The Board of Trustees(BOT) provides strategic direction
 Decision by the board is streamlined through the Executive Facilitator who takes administrative
and programme decisions
 The Head of Programming oversees the organization’s programmes.
 The General Secretary conveys administrative decisions
 The Accounts Office, Volunteers and Office Assistants reports to the EF via General Secretary.
 The Project Office coordinates project implementation
 Project ideas generated from any internal sources are channeled via the Projects Appraisal and
Evaluation Committee (PAEC), chaired by Head of Programming.
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