Current Projects
School Meals Program
The School Meals Program, led by CEDAR, addresses child malnutrition in Nigeria by providing one nutritious meal per week to students at Kingdom Champions International School, Ibadan. The initiative aims to improve health and focus among students while supporting local farmers.
Asiribo Women’s Empowerment Project
The Asiribo Women’s Empowerment Project provides grants to support low-income women in farming, dressmaking, and other small businesses. Honoring Mama Obasola Ajike Adegbola.
Past Projects
In 2007 CEDAR had a partnership with the University of Ibadan Distance Learning Centre (DLC) to mainstream Entrepreneurship into curriculum and act as a support centre for university students.
The project took place in 2013 and involved an On-line Business Plan Development Training in Lagos and Ibadan between youths in Nigeria and USA. This was in collaboration with a programme at St Augustine University, North Carolina and Project Empowerment Initiative USA.
SOS Children’s Villages Nigeria collaborated with the Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research (CEDAR) in conducting Training Workshops for over five hundred participants in different locations, titled: Micro- Enterprise Development and Financial Management Training.
Initiative for Integrated Community Welfare in Nigeria (IICWIN) collaborated with the Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research (CEDAR) Ibadan, in conducting three days Empowerment Training Workshops at Ijaye, Ajibode and Lanlate communities in Oyo State for over one hundred participants.
The Centre supported SOS Children’s Villages in the organisations’ project communities all over the country to build the capacity of care givers in the areas of:-
Youth and Women Entrepreneurship Development
Financial Management
Social Business Design and Monitoring
Microfinance Administration
CBO Governance and Systems Strengthening especially for women’s groups
The Centre organized the 1st West African Youth Entrepreneurship Summit (WA-YES) in collaboration with Distance Learning Centre, University of Ibadan and ADCOME Cameroon in September 2008. The Summit hosted over 300 existing and aspiring youth entrepreneurs from the West Africa sub-region for brainstorming, skills development activities including business plan training and exhibitions in different enterprise sectors. The summit also featured a Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV/AIDS booths in collaboration with Society for Family Heath (SFH) and Network for Ethics and Law on HIV/AIDS (NELA).
CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI), Community Sample Research (CSR) for ActionAid International Abuja. 2005-2006
Rapid Assessment of the Impact of Liberalization and Foreign Private Investment in Agriculture for Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Nigeria: A Case Study of Zimbabwean Farmers in the Kwara Basin. Consultancy funded by HeinriBoell Foundation. 2005
Community Empowerment Needs Assessment (CENA) and Skills Capacity Building sponsored by the World Bank Institute. 2003
A Community Research and advocacy project on Poverty Knowledge and Policy Processes in Uganda and Nigeria in collaboration with Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Sussex funded by DfID. 2001-2002
Capacity Strengthening for Food Processing Microenterprises in Nigeria This was a Cost-Sharing arrangement with Centre for Development of Enterprises (CDE), Belgium in 2011-2012- an action research on micro food processors in Akwa Ibom, Oyo, Ondo, Lagos, Ekiti and Osun States of Nigeria. Some of the outputs of the project include database of agricultural machinery fabricators, agricultural producers and processors as well as documentation of the chemical analysis of different food samples of the processors within our network.
CEDAR undertakes educational programmes for different categories of people and pursued through different platforms. As a Third Party Service Provider, we facilitate partnerships between educational institutions and those who need different forms of education. (Link to International Field Education Support)
Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research was a Practicum Site for George Warren Brown Institute of Social Work, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA. In this arrangement, Masters Students who interned at CEDAR would have completed an academic foundation program which entails both classroom and field work in USA.
From this academic engagement, students preselect special areas of focus which form the basis of their internship with CEDAR. Past interns have focused on Economic Development for at-risk Populations; Children, Youth, and Family, Adult Education, ICT for Youth Development etc. Some of the Interns subsequently followed up the intervention by linking CEDAR up with relevant programmes in the US.
Nexus Spring 2009
