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Sector Activity Description Implementing Partner
Conflict Mitigation Conflict Abatement through Local Mitigation (CALM)

CALM reduces conflict in targeted states by increasing the capacity of government institutions, civil society, political parties, and other stakeholders to prevent, manage, and mitigate the impacts of conflict. The program will develop cross-cultural and inter-religious awareness and sensitivity.

International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH)
Agriculture Cassava Enterprise Development Project

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)
Agriculture Maximizing Agricultural Revenues 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 Inc.
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)
   
Last Updated on: March 05, 2009