ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY INITIATIVE Protecting the Environment through Research, Advocacy and Education Corporate profile Knowing whom we are.
1.0 Legal status APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS Registration with Government: Contact Address: Yes. Registered with Cooperate Affairs Commission, Niger Delta Link and Nigerian Network of NGOs. #2 Owuoma Street of Ikwerre Road, Rumuokwuta Rivers State, Nigeria. Telephone: +2348064763948, +2348056289381 Email: Website: efinitiative@gmail.com, In progress Online media: @efinitiative, facebook.com/efinitiative Position/title, name and Executive Director, Gerald Esemonu,+2348064763948, exploregerald@gmail.com contact details of Key representative 2.0 HISTORY Date of Creation & Length in Existence Registered in January 2011 However, the group has functioned nonofficially since February, 2006.
Reasons and Circumstances for the Creation of EFI: Environmental Friendly Initiative birthed in 2006, when few of us participated in the 4th Annual Conference on ENVIRONMENT organized by Nigerian Senate. In the course of the deliberations, the conference noted the urgent need to enlist the involvement of local and grassroots organization in environmental issues on for sustainable environment. We formed a group and thereafter agreed on the need to set up a formal organization acknowledging that all over the world, crises are associated with areas of exploitative and degraded environment. Unfriendly environment breeds crises; epidemic and conflicts to forestall environmentally induced. How the organization has evolved in terms Of scope and operational activity Over 4 years in existence EFI has 7 active members and 10 volunteers steadily strengthening in skills and commitment to the NGO despite funding challenges. In the past, the organization has supported a range of civil society activities rather than as an organizer and promoting the themes of World Environment and Habitat Day events with school children. In 2015 the organization intends to focus on fundraising to implement its own thematic focus to deepen its involvement in sustainable friendly environment. 3.0 NGO Mandate & Policies Type of organization: Our Vision: Non profit Envision an enlightened people sustaining a healthier, happier and peaceful environment.
Our Mission: Our Main Objectives: Our Strategy: To facilitate a quality and efficient environmental consciousness on degradation, exploitation and mismanagement, and support communities in protecting and preserving a life-sustaining environment. EFI fulfils its purpose and serve the beneficiary groups by: Creating more awareness on the importance of balancing man s activity and its effect on the environment Promoting informed decision making to enhance global and regional environmental co-operation Assisting disaster affected communities. Participate in national and international forums and seminars to build advocacy and education engagements. Bottom-up approach through Advocacy, Education and Research Specific Intervention Areas Climate Change Energy Justice Waste Management (E-waste) 4.0 Planning, monitoring & evaluation
Past activities: 1) Awareness raising of school groups, commuters etc on how to protect the environment 2) Organized regular clean ups with market women 3) Involvement with government agency (NESREA) and some local NGOs (HURSDEF, Space for Change) Current Activities 1) On-going sensitization campaign tagged Proper Solid Waste Tips in schools and communities
2) Continue involvement in relevant civil society activities & issues as they arise 3) establishment Young Environmental Vanguards in Senior Secondary Schools 4) Strengthen organizational structure and capacity while planning for future activities Future Activities 1) Continue on current activities 1) and 2) 2) Complete development of a strategic plan. 3) Fundraising Planned Future Direction 1) Conduct a Niger Delta Senior Secondary School Competition on Climate Change. 2) Facilitate research efforts of professionals to enhance preparedness for Climate Change impacts. Networks
South-South Zone. Port Harcourt Area of Operation The Niger Delta where we work has two basic definitions namely geographical and the geopolitical. By geographical definition, Niger Delta by the total land mass is 2.8% of Nigeria and is limited to three states namely, Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta. In the year 2000, however, the Obansanjo regime redefined the region using the geopolitical subdivision based on oil production to include all the oil producing states like Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross-Rivers, Delta, Edo, Ondo, Imo and Rivers making up 7.5% of Nigeria s land mass, with some 31 million people of ethnic groups that include the Efik, Ibibio, Annang, Oron, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Igbo, Isoko, Kalabari, Urhobo and Yoruba among other. Niger Delta is one of the 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems in the world and is home to some 31 million people. The Niger Delta is also the location of massive oil deposits, which have been extracted for decades by the government of Nigeria and by multinational oil companies. Oil has generated an estimated $600 billion since the 1960s. Despite this, the majority of the Niger Delta s population lives in poverty. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) describes the region as suffering from administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject, filth and squalor, and endemic conflict. The majority of the people of the Niger Delta do not have adequate access to clean water or health-care. Their poverty, and its contrast with the wealth generated by oil, has become one of the world s starkest and most disturbing examples of the resource curse. Development has been stalled and tradition livelihoods have been severely compromised by endemic widespread pollution-oil spills, waste dumping, flooding and erosion. All stakeholders recognize that there is an acute need to address this environmental disaster, but deep mistrust, years of inertia, and lack of clarity surrounds this issue and ensures that the devastating status quo remains. There is a critical need to address this environmental emergency.
Project Name: Groom 60 Environmental School Clubs In Niger Delta Donor/Thru: Global Giving Project Period: October to December'15 Implementing Organization: Environmental Friendly Initiative Budget $:Naira 190 MONTHS Units Number of Units Number of Persons Repeat Frequency Rate (N) Total (N) Total ($) 1. Advocacy and engagement with key stakeholders Travel and taxi (Abia, Imo and Rivers States) States 3 4 3 40,000 1,440,000 7,579 Meals/Refreshment States 3 24 3 1,000 216,000 1,137 Per diem States 3 4 3 5,000 180,000 947 Project Officers States 3 2 3 15,000 270,000 1,421 Volunteers Stipend States 3 2 3 5,000 90,000 474 SubTotal 2,196,000 11,558 2.Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop in Leadership, Management and Facilitation Skills and Environmental education for Club Cordinators Accommodations State 2 6 2 15,000 360,000 1,895 Car hire by Program Officers and Volunteers (Abia and Imo States) State 2 6 2 15,000 360,000 1,895
Transportation Refunds to Cordinators and Deputys Persons 3 120 1 2,000 720,000 3,789 Meals Persons 3 126 1 1,500 567,000 2,984 Communication Days 3 4 1 3,000 36,000 189 Per diem for Program Officers and Volunteers Days 2 6 2 5,000 120,000 632 Hall hire Days 3 1 1 80,000 240,000 1,263 Workshop Materials items 3 1 1 50,000 150,000 789 Project Officers Days 3 6 2 15,000 540,000 2,842 Volunteers Stipend Days 3 6 2 5,000 180,000 947 SubTotal 3,273,000 17,226 3. Formation and animation of the 60 Young Environmental Vanguards (YEV) clubs Accommodations (EFI staff and Directors) State 2 10 1 15,000 300,000 1,579 Car hire by Program Officers and Volunteers (Abia and Imo States) State 2 6 2 15,000 360,000 1,895 Meals Persons 3 150 1 1,500 675,000 3,553 Per diem for Program Officers and Volunteers State 2 6 1 5,000 60,000 316 Project Officers Days 3 6 2 15,000 540,000 2,842 Volunteers Stipend Days 3 6 2 5,000 180,000 947 SubTotal 2,115,000 11,132 4. Mentoring, Monitoring and Evaluating, YEV clubs activities Car hire by Program Officers and Volunteers (Abia and Imo States) States 2 4 2 15,000 240,000 1,263 Communication Days 3 1 1 15,000 45,000 237
Per diem Days 3 4 2 6,000 144,000 758 Project Officers Days 3 4 2 15,000 360,000 1,895 Volunteers Stipend Days 3 4 2 5,000 120,000 632 SubTotal 909,000 4,784 Overheads Contribution to Finance & Admin (Reporting/Review Function) Months 3 2 1 100,000 600,000 3,158 Contribution to Office Rent/utilities/internet Months 3 1 1 100,000 300,000 1,579 TOTAL - OVERHEADS 900,000 4,737 PROJECT TOTAL COSTS 9,393,000 49,437