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At
present, FNF, Lagos Office co-operates mainly with the following
local partners in Nigeria:
- Africa
Leadership Forum (ALF)
- Business
and Professional Women (BPW)
- Congress
of Small Scale Associations of Nigeria (COSSAN)
- Constitutional
Rights Project (CRP)
- Legal
Research and Resource Development Centre (LRRDC)
- Nigerian
Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI)
The
following is a short abstract of the different partner organisations.
Africa
Leadership Forum (ALF)
The
African Leadership Forum was created in 1988, with the now President
of Nigeria, Cheif Olusegun Obasanjo, as its founding chairman, based
on the need to provide the platform for developing alternative capacities
that will present articulate responses to the complex problems that
the people of the African continent have to contend with on a daily
basis, and beyond this, prepare a new generation of African leaders
equipped with the sophistication, the moral and intellectual infrastructure
required to lead Africa in the future.
In keeping with this mission, the Forum, as an international civil
society organisation, has vigorously pursued and encouraged diagnosis,
understanding, and an informed search for solutions to local, regional
and global problems from an African perspective and within the framework
of Global interdependence including consideration for phased action
programmes that can be initiated by countries, sub-regions and institutions.
To this end, the Forum organises and supports programmes for the
training of young and promising African with leadership potentials
so as to expose them to the demands, duties and obligations of leadership
positions and to prepare them systematically for assuming higher
responsibilities and meeting the challenges of an increasingly inter-dependent
world.
The Forum also endeavours to generate greater understanding and
enhance the knowledge and awareness of development and social problems
within a global context among young, potential leaders from all
sectors of society, cutting across national, regional, continental,
professional and institutional boarders.
Contact
P.O. Box 776
Ota, Ogun State
Tel.: +234 (39) 722 521, (1) 774 8498
Fax: +234 (39) 722 524
e-mail: info@africaleadership.org
Internet: http://www.africaleadership.org
Business
and Professional Women (BPW)
The
Federation of Business and Professional Women was started by Mrs.
Theodora Obafunmilayo Manuwa in Lagos with other like-minded Nigerian
women on 1960. In 1962, the Lagos Club became an associated club followed
by Ibadan Club and Enugu Club in 1964. In 1965, all these clubs became
known as the Nigerian Federation of Business and Professional Women,
BPW-Nigera.
BPW-Nigeria is an affiliate of the International Federation of Business
and Professional Women which was formed in Geneva, Switzerland, in
1930, on the initiative of DR. Lena Maddesin Philips of the U.S.A.
BPW International is a pressure group, and opinion-making, one of
the world's most influential organisations, non-partisan and non-sectarian.
It is the largest organised network of business and professional women
in the world. It actively promotes women into decision-making positions.
BPW-Nigeria promotes its objectives without distinction as to political
beliefs, race, language or religion. It is the recognised voice of
gainfully employed women in all parts of the world to use their combined
abilities and strength for the attainment of the following objectives:
- To work for: equal opportunities and status for women in the
economic civil and political life in all countries; the removal
of discriminations.
- To encourage women and girls: to acquire education, occupational
training and advance education; to use their occupational capacities
and intelligence for the advantage of others as well as themselves.
- To improve the position of women in business, trade and the
professions, and in all economic life to their countries.
- To stimulate and encourage in women a realisation and acceptance
of their responsibilities to their community and their countries.
- To work for high standard of service in business and the professions.
- To promote world-wide friendship, co-operation and understanding
between business and professional women.
Contact
Club Arcade, Annex 7
Tafawa Balewa Complex
Tel.: +234 (1) 263 3386, 263 0598
Fax: +234 (1) 263 3417
e-mail: bpwng@yahoo.com
Congress
of Small Scale
Associations of Nigeria (COSSAN)
Congress
of Small Scale Associations of Nigeria (COSSAN) has been created
in 2001 as a pressure group for the small scale enterprises in Nigeria.
COSSAN’s main objectives are:
- to
lobby for the cause of small and medium size enterprises in Nigeria
and abroad;
- to
promote collaboration and establish channels of communication
with all tiers of government, civil society organisations and
the private sector;
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to promote equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of every gender,
culture and religious background;
- to
promote business education for small and medium scale entrepreneurship;
to provide a forum for discussions of relevant problems;
- to
promote standards in management, financial and business plans
for SMEs; to publish scientific and educational materials related
to SMEs in Nigeria;
- to
assist in the accreditation and certification of SMEs to facilitate
access to financial capital, nationally and internationally; and
- to
facilitate acquisition and introduction of modern technology in
small and medium scale business.
COSSAN has as its founding members: All Farmers Association of Nigeria
(AFAN); Business and Professional Women (BPW) association; Growing
Businesses Foundation (GBF); National Association of Nigerian Traders
(NANTS); Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI);
and Nigerian Association of Women Entrepreneurs (NAWE).
Contact
Dr. Albert Akinyemi
President, Congress of Small Scale
Associations of Nigeria (COSSAN)
c/o Friedrich Naumann Foundation
6F, Walter Carrington Crescent
Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Tel.: (01) 262 6166, 774 9826
Fax: (01) 262 6166
e-mail: cossan_nig@yahoo.com
Constitutional
Rights Project (CRP)
The
The Constitutional Rights project was established in 1990 to promote
respect for human rights and the rule of law in Nigeria. In pursuing
these objectives, CRP focuses on:
- Strengthening
and promoting the independence of the judiciary and other democratic
institutions in Nigeria.
- Working
towards ensuring that legislation affecting the rights and freedoms
of Nigerians are in compliance with universal human rights standards.
CRP's
methods include active protection of human rights through litigation.
CRP operates a legal services program that provides assistance to
victims of huan rights abuse, and promotional activities such as
research studies, investigations, reports and publications.
CRP has offices in Lagos, the headquarters, and Owerri, Imo State,
which functions as the eastern region office providing services
across the nine eastern states of Nigeria, and Abuja, the Federal
Capital Territory, which runs its legislative advocacy programme.
CRP has been involved in a series of outreach and education programs
aimed at creating awareness of human rights and creating a democratic
consciousness among Nigerians. CRP publishes a weekly column in
The Guardian newspaper, focusing on human rights and democratic
issues.
CRP is registered under Nigerian laws as a non-governmental organisation
and has observer status with the African Commission on Human and
Peoples Rights.
Contact
5, Abiona Close
off Falolu Road
Surulere, Lagos
Tel.: +234 (1) 584 8498, 584 3041, 774 7027
Fax: +234 (1) 584 8571
e-mail: crplagos@crp.org.ng
Legal
Research and Resource
Development Centre (LRRDC)
The
Legal Research and Resource Development Centre is an independent,
non-profit making, non-governmental organisation established in 1990
for the promotion of recognition and respect for human rights by means
of education through research and the initiation of projects.
The Centre recognises the importance of education as a tool for development
and empowerment, accepting that only a concerned and truly enlightened
population can provide a true guarantee of respect for human rights.
It especially believes that the evolving dynamics of human rights
world over calls for pro-activity through human rights education.
The goal is to encourage the development of human rights education,
through interdisciplinary research, teaching, exchange of ideas and
development of human resources for development activities, integrating
national programmes with those at regional and international levels.
Contact
386, Murtala Muhammed Way
Yaba, Lagos
P.O. Box 75242, Victoria Island, Lagos
Tel.: +234 (1) 862 097, 288 0694
Fax: +234 (1) 288 069, 261 0450
e-mail: lrrdc@alpha.linkserve.com
National Association of
Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI)
The National Association of Small Scale Industrialists (NASSI) was
formed in 1978 in Ibadan, Oyo State, with representatives of the then
17 federal states of Nigeria. The formal launching of the association
was announced by the then President Alhaji Shehu Shagari in May 1980
in Lagos.
Today, there are 36 state chapters of NASSI in existence and the association
is represented in almost all 774 local government areas of the nation.
NASSI promotes inter alia rural industrialisation, poverty eradication,
a sustainable livelihood and women empowerment.
Membership of NASSI is open to all persons engaged in production processes
of any kind, offering of services in daily needs and usage. Additionally,
Non-governmental Organisations can register for NASSI membership as
corporate bodies.
The main objectives of NASSI are
- To
establish and maintain an association for the exchange of ideas
and technology information, relevant to the development of small
and medium scale industries in Nigeria.
- To
establish channels of communications with the government, government
institutions, corporate bodies, financial institutions and employment
organisations for the purpose of securing assistance in cash or
kind to develop and sustain small and medium scale industries
in the country.
- To
promote business management education through the organisation
of seminars, symposia and workshops, products exhibition, conferences,
dialogues and other public enlightenment programmes.
- To
consult, contact, confirm and co-operate with organisations and
persons inside and outside Nigeria having objectives similar to
those of the association.
- To
engage in other activities that are conducive to the well-being
and sustenance of the association.
Contact
Small Scale Industrial Estate
Fatai Atere Way
Matori, Mushin
Lagos
G.P.O. Box 709, Marina, Lagos
Tel.: +234 (1) 452 2620, (35) 240 926, (35) 242 556
Fax: +234 (35) 243 205
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