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Sector Activity Description Implementing Partner
Agriculture Maximizing Agriculture Revenue and Key Enterprises in Targeted Sites (MARKETS)

MARKETS works along the commodity development chain to transform traditional Nigerian agriculture from low input/low output, subsistence farming to commercially competitive agriculture, focusing initially on rice, sorghum and cereals, cowpeas/legumes, aquaculture, and dairy.

Chemonics International
HIV/AIDS & TB
Comprehensive Integrated Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Nigeria (CIHPAC)

CIHPAC supports the adoption of healthy reproductive behavior among most at risk populations by working at the community level and integrating national level social marketing with community level interventions. The project is changing behavior through the use of peer facilitation, dramas, and target-specific materials.

Society for Family Health (SFH)
HIV/AIDS & TB Safe Blood Integrated Program

Safe Blood recruits and develops voluntary blood donors, conducts training in transfusion medicine, and builds capacity for the National Blood Transfusion Service.

Safe Blood for Africa Foundation (SBFAF)
Malaria NETMARK

NetMark seeks to increase the availability and use of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) to prevent malaria, targeting pregnant women and children under five.

Academy for Educational Development (AED)
Agriculture Cassava Enterprise Development Project (CEDP)

CEDP introduces improved disease resistant varieties of cassava; increase productivity through the generation, promotion, and adoption of new cassava production technologies; and facilitates access to inputs, credit, information, and domestic markets.

International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Last Updated on: March 05, 2009