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African Center for Environmental and Rural Development (ACERD) started as Eco Assurance and Rural Transformation Centre (Eco Trace) in 2015 when it was registered with the Ministry of Youth and Sport in Delta State with the aim of speaking for the very poor and disadvantaged in the Niger Delta region. Having performed this task effectively, the need arose to have a national spread within the bracket of its focus in the National stage. Thus, in December 2018, that prayer was approved when the Corporate Affairs Commission granted the sought request in the registration of ACERD with its Head Office at No. 36. Edoge Street Ughelli, Ughelli North, Delta State, Nigeria. ACERD operates within two thematic areas
- Environment and
- Peace and Conflict Resolution.
The affair of the Organisation is managed by a dedicated Executive Director who oversees its day-to-day operations supported by hardworking staffs. In addition, the Organisation is also blessed with a seasoned Board of Directors who routinely provides the needed guidance in ensuring that the Organisation achieves its stated goal.
ACERD’s mission is to re-create environmentally sustainable communities in the Nigeria through environmentally friendly activities and the regeneration of the a near natural habitat through the planting of trees.
Over the years, we have had course to successfully implement, as Sub IP, the Sustainable Citizen Participation (SCP) implemented by Afrihealth Optonet Association funded by the United Nations Democracy Funds (UNDEF). We are also in partnership with ENVIRUMEDIC in the area of Budget Analysis and Community Development Advocacy Fundation (CODAF). To date, Delta Budget Committee ((DBC) the platform on which the state Budget is continuously analysed) have analysed, in all, six Delta State Budgets i.e. from 2013 to 2018 and made appropriate recommendation to the State Government based on findings and these have been reflected in succeeding budgets. In this regard, we were notable participant at the 1st ECOWAS People’s Agriculture Budget Summit held between 12 th and 13 th December 2018 in Abuja Nigeria. We are also member of Youth Voices for Climate Justice, a group of CSOs under the auspices of ACTIONAIDS with the responsibility of sensitizing the general public as well as ensuring that the Nigerian Environment is adequately protected for future generations.
Our Vision
Our vision is to see a Nigerian that sanitized to its near natural environmental. We visualize a Nigerian environment that is Hydrocabon free, a Nigeria that has impactful waste management system without resort to landfull system, a Nigeria that creates wealth from its waste by 2033.
Our MISSION
To re-create violent free and environmentally sustainable communities in the Niger Delta
Our Goal
Promoting environmental sustainability and rural development by amplifying marginalized voices in the Niger Delta, advancing climate change awareness through storytelling on EnviroGyst, social media, and community engagement initiatives.
Thematic Arias
ORGANISATION’S THEMATIC AREAS
1. Environment
2. Conflict Management
ENVIRONMENT
The Nigerian or the Niger delta Environment is one of the most degraded environment in the global space due to fossil fuel exploration and exploitation and the ineffective management of household. Aside from impacting on global warming, it has another effect on the communities that reside within the Niger Delta region in robbing them of their livelihood. Our task is to help amplify the voices of the voiceless in the Niger Delta Region and beyond in a bid to alleviate their suffering and to remedy the environment to its near natural state by calling on government and Multination and National Oil Producing firms to act appropriately.
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
The incidence of environmental degradation is accompanied by the menace of conflict, as seen in the Niger Delta. Thus, it is believed that for proper environmental management to take place, peaceful coexistence amont the people is necessary. To this end, ACERD has as its major thematic areas conflict transformation.
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Objectives
Our objectives are:
1. To provide sound and intellectual resource base to address the unending challenges of climate change through effective environmental action.
2. Reach out to Communities and address issues relating the environment through proper waste management.
3. Collaborate with like minded Organisation to educate communities on issues affecting Climate Change.
4. Carryout Advocacy campaign to sensitize government and communities alike on activities that promote climate change.
5. Engage in environmental impact assessment on proposed and/or existing policies and advise government or such relevant authorities appropriately.
6. To mediate and manage conflict between government and communities, inter and intra-community crisis.
7. To synergize with local and international organizations for the promotion of environmental attitude and socio-economic upliftment of the Niger Delta Communities.
PROGRAMMES
The objectives of ACERD as detailed above seeks to address the challenges of Climate Change and Conflict Transformation in both urban and rural people within Nigeria. In a nut shell, it seeks the betterment of the generality of the people.
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Our Team
NOHWO Fred Edesiri
Executive Director
SIEMURI Ogheneruemu
VolunteerBackground Context
The Nigerian society is one that is abundantly endowed with human and mineral resources. The Niger Delta hosts currently the most prized resource ofthe Nigerian state and generates about 80% of the nation’s national wealth.
According to the 1991 Census, the projected population to 2015 of the Niger Delta Region is approximately 39,157,000 with a total Land Area of 112,110 square kilometers. Paradoxically, the nations of the Niger Delta that produce the stupendous wealth that oils the machinery of the Nigerian government remain the poorest; the most disadvantaged and most deprived people within the Nigerian political space. Despite living in the Niger Delta, access to water remains the greatest challenge to urban and rural dwellers alike. Good roads, good sanitary system, access to proper and qualitative education, food and food security and modern techniques of farming that promote better yields from our farms are constantly elusive. Consequently, poverty becomes endemic in a society the revels in affluence. Currently, about 90 million Nigerians are defined as living on less than $1 per day. Its Human Development Index (HDI) ranks 159 out of 177 Countries (UNDP 2006). The Country also boasts of the highest income inequalities in the world. Young girls drop out of school as a result of unprotected sex and are unable to retrace their steps back to the classroom because of low or absence of parental and communal guidance. Young boys drop out of school because of inadequate or absence of proper counseling. So the Country is replete with young men and women with high intelligence but with little or no educational backing to propel themselves through life.
These challenges inform the establishment of ACERD. Thus, ACERD is primarily a response to the foisted ills of poverty, low human capital development, environmental degradation, the negative impact of oil exploration and so on that afflicts the people of the Niger Delta Region every day.
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Address
No. 36 Edoge Street, Ughelli, Ughelli North, Delta State, Nigeria.
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+234(0)7067625519
Email Us
acerd.ngo@gmail.com