| Grantee Name | Activity Description | Implementing Partner |
| Development
Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) |
Budget Process Support Project. DAI is providing a comprehensive program to strengthen both the Budjet office and the Budjet Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit of the Ministry of Finance | Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) |
| Internews
Network Nigeria - Local Voices Project |
Intensive practical training of journalists, talk show hosts and disc jockeys; sensitization and orientation of radio news editors, radio program managers and producers; outreach to broadcast media owners and managers; travel grants to investigate stories; media competions to encourage excellence in HIV/AIDS reporting; media resource centre offering digital and print information on HIV/AIDS and the media, Internet access for journalists; digital audio production studio | Internews Network Nigeria - Local Voices Project |
| Animal
Health Priorities in Nigeria |
This activity is an integrated project that combines introducing improved cowpeas that can be used as fodder and performing basic animal disease diagnosis. Strategies to train community workers to identify and prevent common ailments insmall animals and to refer small animal holders to veterinarians have been met with opposition. It will in addition increase knowledge of the prevalence and incidence of major livestock diseases in Nigeria in order to facilitate design of more effective control strategies; strengthen the capacity of Nigerian stakeholders - livestock farmers, veterinarians, and Ministry officials for diagnosis and surveillance of animal diseases and implementatio of animal diseases control strategies; and demonstrate improved productivity of livestock systems in two selected states through improved delivery of veterinary services to livestock communities. | International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) |
| Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria | Home-based care, psychosocial counseling, VCCT, referral linkages, support groups, treatment of opportunistic infections, food and vitamin/mineral supplementation, awareness and senstiziation trainings for clergy and religious, HBC and counseling training for volunteers, Development of a sensitization curriculum manual for clergy | Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria |
| Peter Hartmann | i) Multiplication of breeder and foundation seeds of selected varieties ii) Training farmers in seed production techniques and catalyzing farmer to farmer seed diffusion of selected improved early maturing varieties of cowpea, millet and sorghum for strategic seed reserve development at household level. iii) Catalyzing the formation of seed growers association to establish strategic seed reserves at local government and state levels. This will ensure ready availability of improved seeds to farmers and will help to both increase their productivity as well as to provide them with the potential flexibility needed to adjust their cropping system in the wake of erratic rainfall in any given year..iv) On-farm demonstration cum multiplication of improved seeds of early cowpea, millet and sorghum varieties..v). A total of 939 farmers produced over 765 tons of improved seeds by the end of Dec.2003 | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) |
| International Institute
of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) |
This Project is designed to enhance farmer and community based system for production, storage and distribution of improved early maturing varieties of millet, sorghum and cowpea. Project activities include: multiplication of breeder and foundation seeds of selected varieties; training farmers in seed production techniques and catalyzing farmer to farmer seed diffusion of selected early maturing varieties for strategic seed reserve development at household level; and, catalyzing the formation of seed growers association to establish strategic seed reserves at local government and state levels. This will ensure ready availability of improved seeds to farmers and will help to both increase their productivity as well as to provide them with the potential flexibility needed to adjust their cropping system in the wake of erratic rainfall in any given year..This project is linked for seed production purposes to other donor-funded projects by GATSBY foundation, DANINA and DFID. This has increased the number of participating farmers to 20,000; net revenue of $600 per hectare is currently recorded by the participating farmers. | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) |
| International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) | This activity is designed to promote private sector marketing of fertilizer and other crop inputs. It is an integrated approach which includes a policy component to address regulatory and other policy constraints to private sector input marketing. It is designed to demonstrate that private sector fertilizer marketing is more efficient, less subject to corruption and has greater impact on production than state subsidized fertilizer provision. | International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) |