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Delta NGO/CBO founded in September 1999,with a mission and major focus of resolving conflicts in the entire Niger Delta, pacifying the increasing youths restiveness in our region and propagating good harmonious relationship amongst inhabitants of the South-South geopolitical entity of Nigeria as one people.These would promote cohesion, integration,ethnic integration, national stability and restoring confidence of the international community on our people, thereby; accelerating development and generating employment opportunities for our youths, among others. Nigeria's valued democracy can be enhance, sustain, protected,promoted and stabilize (with time), as community peace building and good governance campaigns are sustainably -integrated into Civil Society advocacies. These also shall consolidate our nascent democracy, promote-communal cohesion, bring overall stability to Nigeria,and consolidating our democratic practices. Our work and concentration also involve areas of Economic Empowerment for our Youths, Poverty Alleviation, Good Governance, Conflicts Resolution, Crisis Prevention/Community Peace-Building, Sustainable Development,Human Rights and Environmental Justice, Transparency and Accountability,Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, Anti-corruption Campaigns,Procurement Reforms, Lobbying etc. Accordingly and in line with our set goals, mission and vision, we had intervened either directly or indirectly in the Rupokwu Youths Leadership tussle, Park Agidigbi Vs Shell Conflicts(Bonny),Oginigba Youths Vs Elders conflicts, Ueken Vs Kaani Communal conflicts, Obite Youths Leadership tussle, Oku-iboku Vs Ikot Offiong Communal War, Omuipa Vs SHELL Spill crisis and numerous other conflicts within the Niger Delta area.Order was restored in all these and without egoistic propaganda to boosting our organizational profile. It is our token to helping humanity, Youths' Volunteerism and bringing the much needed stability that (Nigeria) our beloved country dearly needs. Strategically speaking, our organisation is engaged in numerous civil society coalitions, engagements and network helping in building valuable human capacities of youths within our region at preparing towards global leadership and moving their expectation away that only Interntional Oil Companies (IOCs) operating in our can empower our people. Below are some of network and Civil Society Coalitions we belong; Niger Delta Resource Curse Group-Member Publish What You Pay International Coalition-Member Transition Monitoring Group(TMG)-Member Police Community Relations Committee(PCRC),RS-Command-Youth Leader Freedom of Information Coalition(FOIC)-Member Human Rights and Justice Group(HURI-JUG)-Executive Board Member United Action for Democracy(UAD)-Member Yes Country Network-Nigeria-Member International Democracy Network-International Observer. Niger Delta Conflicts Management Project-Regional Co ordinator Niger Delta Youths Coalition-Co ordinating NGO Federated Niger Delta Non-Violent Volunteers-Co ordinating NGO. Nigeria Gender Budget Network-Member AssemblyONline, Member Pro-Poor Governance Network-Member. Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group-Founding NGO. Others. Importantly and in building international participation and integration for our youths. We participated as( African Continent's Youth Representative) at the Plenary Debate on The Draft Statute of The Economic, Cultural and Social Council(ECOSOCC) of the African Union-AU. We also won an international Youths Empowerment Award from Nigerian Professionals (NiPRO)in America-Dec,2003. Equally, we had worked closely, collaborated and participated in programs of USAID/OTI,CHOGM-2003,Programs of Africa Leadership Forum, National Youths Policy Debates for Nigeria, UN-Volunteers, IDI,IFC, World Bank, Round-Table with Henrich Boell Foundation on "Managing Urban Conflicts In Nigeria", processes of the Nigerian Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI)TransparencyCampaigns in Nigeria under Publish What You Pay (Nigeria) International Coalition and the Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group-our baby. We also participated in CSOs Interactions with the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence Unit(BMPIU)- in The Presidency, State House-Abuja, Invitation to a Forum on Privatisation of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) organised by Office of The Senior Special Assistant to The President (SSA)on BPE-Presidency, Abuja, South-South Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) Road-Show (we facilitatedr for Publish What You Pay-Nigeria, Actionaid-Nigeriaa CAEVIN Project, Actionaid-Nigeria Niger Deltaa Peoples Dialogue and compact,National Democratic Institute's (NDI) SNAP Project and legislative strenghtening in Nigeria and engaging our membership and emerging leaders in LEAP-Africa Leadership Training for young leaders in Nigeria, including programs and collaborations with various sectors of Governments in Nigeria, all bothering on Conflicts Prevention, Stability and Transparency in Governance, Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Justice. We facilitated numerous Symposia’s, Seminars, Talkshops, Round-Tables and Conferences locally and internationally, all,focusing and brainstorming towards Sustainable Human Development and bringing stability to our Niger Delta area of Nigeria and reducing violence/intermittent confrontations between our youths and Government Security Agencies to the bearest minimum, if not completely eradicated. Also, In 2004,we were nominated for The Highest National Security Award of African Independent Television (AIT)/Security Watch Award-Nigeria, which has approval of Government, that was on a category of BEST SECURITY FRIENDLY/CONSCIOUS CIVIL SOCIETY GROUP in Nigeria, unfortunately we didn’t WIN the Award. We had also facilitated numerous Empowerment programs for our youths in the Niger Delta via International Fellowships, Networking, Scholarships, Internships, Integration with online Resources of CSOs globally, all in helping our young people reduce their dependency on Oil Companies and Government. Personally, I have delivered papers numerously about conflicts in the Niger Delta and why our suffering people must be emancipated. Some of such presentations were at The 1st International Conference on Niger Delta,6th International Conference on Niger Delta, UNDP/ANUNSA Workshop against Youths Violence in 2003 General Elections in Nigeria, Workshop Against the Killing of Security Operatives in The Niger Delta, Advocacy Workshop on Oil Revenue and Budget Monitoring for Niger Delta States of Nigeria, a Round-Table with American Conflicts Experts under USAID/OTI, including numerous other Round-Tables on Conflict Management, Prevention and Strategies for Sustainable Community-Peace-Building in The Niger Delta area of Nigeria. Thanks indeed for your interest in our organisation. George-Hill Anthony,FCBPA Chairman-Board of Trustees Commonwealth of Niger Delta Youths, Regional National Secretariat, PortHarcarcourt-Nigeria.
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