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Partnership |
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One of the core values of MPL is building Partnerships and Networks, which in this context implies pooling complementary resources, knowledge, skills etc. to jointly address complex socio developmental problems. From our experience, Partnerships serve as a mechanism for voluntary collaboration to promote sustainable development based on efficient re – allocation of complementary resources across business, government and civil society.
In this spirit, MPL has built and strengthened collaborations with a number of institutions some of which are discussed below: |
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1. Population Media Center (PMC), Vermont, Shelburne, USA |
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MPL serves as an in-country program partner to the Population Media Center (PMC) in Nigeria . MPL and PMC are part of a larger web of partnership that involves the Federal Ministry of Information (represented by Population Information and Communication Bureau, (PICB), Rotary International (represented by Rotarian Fellows on Population and Development, AGPD), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Voice of Nigeria (VON) and Daar Communications Limited (represented by Ray Power FM) for the implementation of a National Behaviour Change Communications Program to reduce HIV/AIDS infections in Nigeria.
The Partnership has financial support from the German Government (BMZ), Federal Government of Nigeria, Rotary Foundation, Packard Foundation, the USAID-Nigeria, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Additionally, the partnership has received an offer of institutional leverage from the Futures Group International, US-based Internews as well as the John Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs (JHUCCP).
For Further information on PMC, please visit www.populationmedia.org |
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2. Foundation for Rural Development and Self-Help, FORESH |
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MPL and FORDESH are partnering as implementing Agencies in a wider network involving the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL) a subsidiary of TOTAL Nigeria and one of Nigeria’s first generation Banks – United Bank for Africa (UBA) for a sustainable development interventions in the oil rich Niger Delta Belt of Nigeria.
The program goal is to provide multiple opportunities to citizens of oil producing communities through delivery of development assistance designed to reduce restiveness and violence in the oil rich Niger Delta by meaningful economic engagements of the citizenry. |
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3. Okon Widows Network (OWN) |
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| MPL and OWN were brought together through Culture and Health Africa Program (CHAP) initiated by the Washington DC based Program for Appropriate Technology and Health (PATH).
Through the project activities, MPL mobilized over 4,500 widows into a network, trained its Officials and helped in building partnerships with several Agencies. Currently, UNDP, MPL and OWN are collaborating on a multi-year, multi-components sustainable interventions programs to consolidate the initial achievements made on the project. Key project components include: HIV/AIDS, Water and Sanitation, Micro Credit, Agriculture and Skills Acquisition. MPL role in the network includes formative and evaluative research activities as well as Technical Assistance (TA) to the budding widows Network.
Additionally, MPL, Pathfinder International and OWN are collaborating on Organizational Development (OD) Interventions under the Ford Foundation Institutional Capacity Building Initiative. The Program is designed to build the capacities of key personnel on programs design, financial management, program Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) etc. Similarly, in April, 2005,Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Economic Development, being the coordinating Agency of all intervention activities of the development partners of the State Government-UNDP,UNICEF,FGN/EU, New Nigeria Foundation, World Bank etc. directed all Agencies to focus their interventions on the Network project field for maximium impact. The project field has officially been adopted by government and its development partners as a model that will be replicated in other parts of the State and the Country. This was against the backdrop of the efficient interventions strategies MPL has applied in the area since year 2002 when MPL received the initial PATH grant for the implementation of the continent-wide Culture and Health Africa Program (CHAP). |
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| For Further information on OWN, please visit www.own.org |
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4. Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited (EPNL) |
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MPL serves as program partners to EPNL in the implementation of the later’s sustainable development programs in its host communities. Consequently, MPL is part of a consortium that is implementing EPNL TOTALCARD program. The TOTALCARD meaning Total Credit for Agricultural and Rural Development is implemented under the Niger Delta Trust Fund (NDFT) which is a wider partnership between EPNL, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as well as MPL/FORDESH Consortium.
Similarly, MPL is a program partner to EPNL in its implementation of the Enterprise Development (ED) program. |
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5. The Rural Women Literacy Project (RUWLIP) |
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The RUWLIP is a strategic response to the urgent need to provide human development capacity building to rural women in Rivers State of Nigeria whose populations are mainly heads of their households and the main pillars of the rural economy.The program is the initiative of Dr Priye Iyalla Amadi which started in year 2002 in the small town of Mbodo-Aluu in Rivers State with only 40 women. As a result of the positive impacts recorded in the pilot phase, the wife of the Rivers State Governor, Her Excellency, Hon. Justice Mary Odili adopted the project as a major area of intervention for the entire State. According to Dr Amadi,the main goal of RUWLIP is to enhance the potentials of the non-literate rural women so that they can read,write and creatively acquire life skills and basic business education for purposeful living. MPL has been approached by the management of RUWLIP to provide Technical Assistance (TA) as well as serve as program partner. So far MPL has assisted RUWLIP in developing a strategic framework detailing program areas of focus and Monitoring and Evaluation plan, Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) framework etc. An office space has been created in the former Rivers State Governor’s office to serve as a secretariat to RUWLIP. Currently, MPL together with the State Government has embarked on extensive consultations with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and major oil corporations for strategic partnership in the project.
For Further information on RUWLIP, please visit: www.ruralwomen.5s.com |
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