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The Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) is a Think Tank Organisation Based in Nigeria

Benin-City, Nigeria
Joined January 2014
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The Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) begins a new chapter in the African-led knowledge partnerships of the African Think Tank Platform (ATTP), an initiative of the @_AfricanUnion CPED joins African Population and Health Research Center- APHRC (Kenya)
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We at Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) celebrate all women on this #InternationalWomensDay . As part of our mission, we will continue to advocate and accelerate for equality and empowerment for all women and girls especially those in rural communities.
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Join us as we present the Autobiography of Emeritus Professor Andrew Godwin Onokerhoraye. Join through this link: youtube.com/live/7sRyhBkBmOE…
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Big news! 🎉 As Southern Voice introduces Margarita Gomez as its new Executive Director, we @CPEDNG celebrate the new leadership and look forward to continuing to empower #GlobalSouth voices together. #SouthernVoice #GlobalSouth
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As part of the intervention activities, CPED in collaboration with @SPARC_Ideas has commenced the training of Community Project Implementation Committee (CPIC) members from different pilot communities. youtu.be/BOip7XEeIlQ
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The aim of this training is to better help the participants to manage their cooperative society in order to get funds (interest free loans) from able bodies for their Agro-pastoral activities.
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Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) in partnership with @SPARC_Ideas on the Project Titled: "Empowerment of Women in Pastoralism and Agriculture in Nigeria’s Sahel Region" is an ongoing project in Gombe and Bauchi States. youtu.be/RTyt7uCU-cE
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The video is an excerpt from the ongoing activities as it relates to women's empowerment in Gombe State. #WomenEmpowerment
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Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) with International Development Research Centre (IDRC) embarked on a 3 year project titled "Empowering women as Key Leaders in Promoting Community-based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Initiatives in Delta State Nig
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In order to effectively engage the local stakeholders, particularly women and girls in the implementation of the project, existing social groups in the communities were mobilized and the leadership of the various groups were brought together to form a coalition for social change.
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With the spread of COVID-19 across the globe, in mid-Jan.,2020, most Nigerians became apprehensive about it's outcome when it eventually hits Nigeria especially as it is highly populated. This fear was further heightened with the confirmation of the index case on 27 of Feb. 2020
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Social media platforms became flooded with stories and videos on the spread and mortality associated with COVID-19. For more of this story visit cped-ccp.org.ng/blog_1.php
Communications and Media Engagement Capacity Development Workshop currently going on @ randekhi Hotel organized by British council @ngBritish @EUinNigeria @csocapacityng @laureabdul4 @Chisom_Eze7 @haffymusty05 @iamkolawoyin1 @AdeNewton
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Snapshots from CPED Virtual Policy Workshop on Impact of COVID-19 on Local Food Markets in Nigeria with Niger Delta Region as a Case Study, held on Zoom platform
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In recent years the Centre for Population and Environmental Development (CPED) and other partners working in the region have been engaged in collective actions to strengthening the adaptive capacity of women and girls to the impacts of climate change through life-skill building
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and income diversification models as well as advocating for women inclusion in decision making, access to farmland and other resources.For more insight please visit this link to download the document bit.ly/34rgUjn Also visit cped-ccp.org.ng for more publications
Women are constrained by gender discrimination which negatively affects their capacity to influence key decisions on social and economic activities in their locality including climate change adaptation strategies.
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Thus it is essential to simultaneously empower women on climate change adaptation as well as changing the prevailing gender norms that tend to limit the capacity of women to play key roles in the development of their locality.
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Rural communities in the Niger Delta that depend on natural resources for their livelihoods are particularly at risk, therefore critical to climate change amelioration.
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The preferred and sustainable solution is to support rural communities to better manage and adapt to climate change pressures through community-based adaptation. For more visit cped-ccp.org.ng
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Happy New Month from the entire CPED Team.
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Highlights of the Project Briefing Meeting held at constantial hotel, Benin City
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"Mothers are still pressurized to circumcise their daughters by family members"
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The perception of some respondents on FGM in a study recently conducted has not changed despite the widespread sensitization
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Despite the effort put in place to eradicate FGM it still persist at an alarming rate particularly in rural areas
Effects of FGM include pain, haemorrhage, prolonged labour during child birth, infertility and death
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There is no scientific evidence that women mutilated are more faithful or better wives than their unmutilated counterparts