Future Builders Foundation for persons with disabilities

The executive director Comrade Emmanuel Omoike and the director of administration Andrew David of future builders foundation for persons with disabilities, visited national association of persons with physical disabilities (NAPWD), on Sunday 18th of May 2024.
And the purpose of the visit was to select 5 female members from NAPWD to benefit from project THERE empowerment program of future builders foundation for persons with disabilities (FBFPD )
Project there will be launched formally in June 2024.
20th June 2022 was 9th anniversary of future builders foundation for persons with disabilities.
A business and investment training workshop was organized to to train person's living with disabilities on how to manage business and finance. And during the training project T.H.E.R.E was introduced then, and now the implementation of this project will start in June 2024.

Conference of Non governmental organizations (CONGOs) election was conducted today and I myself Comrade Emmanuel Omoike the Executive director of future builders foundation for persons with disabilities ( FBFPD) Contested for the position of deputy director of Administration and at the end of the day I emerged winner congratulations to us in FBFPD

CONGOs Harmonization Team which Comrade Emmanuel Omoike Executive director of Future Builders foundation for persons with disabilities was part of paid an Advocacy visit to the Commissioners of Social development and gender Issues and youth and humanitarian affairs respectively

Conference of Non Governmental Organizations (CONGOS) in collaboration with EU ACT on the 1st of February, 2024 held a Stakeholders Meeting on Harmonization of Civil society organizations registration in Edo State. And the Executive director, Comrade Emmanuel Omoike of Future Builders foundation for persons with disabilities was in attendance.
The session climaxed with the endorsement of Alternative Policy by stakeholders for onward presentation to the Executive Governor of Edo State, Secretary to Edo State Government, Head of Service, Edo State and some MDAs

Future Builders foundation for persons with disabilities was part of members organization that represented Conference of Non Governmental Organizations'(CONGOs in a Town Hall Stakeholder meeting organized by Ministry of social development and gender Issues in COLLABORATION with Edo State government on adoption process with the Theme: A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH to strengthening adoption process in Edo State.
And it held in Festival hall, government house GRA Benin city Edo State Nigeria.

stakeholders meeting on fostering collaboration for citizen inclusive governance. the importance of domesticating the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in Edo state. was also discussed.

Bi-annual coordination meeting with Civil Society Organizations CSO, Key government agencies, Religious and traditional leaders, on Sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) and child early forced marriage (CEFM).
Organised by Caritas Nigeria in partnership with JDPC Benin with support from Palladium under the SCALE Project funded by USAID

CONGOs releases report on monitoring, mentoring of Csos

Conference of Organization (CONGOs) in Benin city, Edo state has released a report covering activities carried out in the EU-ACT coaching and monitoring project - including Coaching and Mentoring of 3 CSOs to improve their Networking and Civic Engagement.

The report was signed by Mrs Daisy Abiola Igaga, President and Comrade Dr. Bartholomew Okoudo, Director of Administration.

The report indicated that the Monitoring and Evaluation team visited Organizations that have benefitted from it between August and October, 2023 as conducted by the Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations (CONGOs) M&E Project Officer.

The visit was to ascertain the state of the organizations before commencement of the project, progress and availability of relevant documents in the individual benefitting organizations as well as ensuring that the project achieved its objectives

The selected organization made a tremendous progress in achieving the project objectives.

The report further stated that the purpose of the visit was also to strengthen member organizations to independently improve their networking and civic engagements as well as build capacity on proposal writing, project management, resource mobilization, project design, development of organizational policies and effective leadership amongst others.

It stated that benefiting organizations have experienced stage by stage growth and improvement and were able to show the progress made in their organizations.

Netete Initiative, a benefiary NGO expressed satisfaction that they have experienced growth in their organization. They said they understood the need to develop organizational policies and other relevant operational modules, and have been able to develop them.

The reports of M&E visit revealed that the organizations now have vision and mission statements and observable core values and other documents as against when they had none at the entry stage.

They stated that they did not have proper documentations at the entry stage of the project, but have now been able to develop the relevant documents and have equally, better understanding in organizing their documents.

The report stated it was discovered that the organizations have been able to draft more policies that have improved their organizational operations as a result of the coaching and mentoring sessions as well as the peer learning sessions.

Despite being a woman led organization, they now have better understanding on Gender and Social Inclusion and are more determined to implement being all inclusive in their organizational operations.

The report recommended that the project team should pay more attention to benefiting organization's financial documents to ensure improvement and proper implementation on organizational accountability.

The project team should also sustain collaboration and peer learning amongst benefitting organizations to enable low performing organizations meet up with the other organizations, as this session imparted the beneficiary organizations greatly during project implementation.

Concluding, they observed that benefiting organizations have shown improvement in organizational capacity and have gained better understanding of organizational operations, adding that most of them have shown improvement in documentation and filling as well as creating easy location of files and office address

On the other hand, the report project team identified gaps in different organizations and will ensure that the areas needed attention would be addressed immediately for effective functionality.

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Conference of Non Governmental Organizations' Annual General Meeting was held yesterday 14th of December 2023 at Charilove foundation hall Sapele road Benin city Edo State.
Future Builders foundation for persons with disabilities was represented by Comrade Emmanuel Omoike, the Executive director and Mrs Grace Ucheaga director of finance FBFPD

The Executive director Comrade Emmanuel Omoike of Future Builders foundation for persons with disabilities (FBFPD) and the Executive director of Education for all levels organization were on a flight ✈️ coming back from EU ACT COACHING AND MENTORING GRANTS REFLECTION SESSION held in Lagos Continental Hotel Victoria Island VI, December 4th -6th,2024 Lagos state

EU ACT COACHING AND MENTORING GRANTS REFLECTION SESSION.
Taking place in Lagos Continental Hotel Victoria Island VI Lagos state Nigeria.
December 4th - 6th
Today Wednesday the last day of the session.
Group presentation
Topics: How do we plan to sustain gains of the C&M? How do we monitor? Enhancing sustainability -- Our commitments

EU ACT COACHING AND MENTORING GRANTS REFLECTION SESSION.
Taking place in Lagos Continental Hotel Victoria Island ( VI).
December 4th -6th 2023.
Day 2
Group presentation.
Edo State and FCT Presented together, and it was centered on what we benefit from the the coaching and mentoring, and what was outstanding for us as an organization, where we are currently and how the Grant benefited our organization and our community. And it was amazing as we also gained a lot from each other during group discussion before the presentation

EU_ACT Coaching and Mentoring Grants Reflection Session.
Taking place in Lagos Continental Hotel Victoria Island (VI) from December 4th -6th
Day1 Topic 1st Reflection: Our Coaching experience, change and progress.