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Community Health Information Education Forum

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Media
  • Micro-Credit
  • Minority Rights
  • Sustainable Development
  • Values
  • Violence
  • Volunteerism
  • Water
  • Women
  • Women/gender Equality
  • Youth

    • Financing for Development:
  • Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Education and training of women
  • Indigenous women
  • Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
  • Millennium Development Goals

    • Population:
  • Morbidity and mortality
  • Population growth
  • Reproduction, family formation and the status of women

    • Public Administration:
  • Ethics, Transparency and Accountability
  • Public Financial Management
  • Public Service and Management Innovation

    • Social Development:
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Poverty
  • Social policy
  • Technical cooperation
  • Youth

    • Statistics:
  • Services Statistics

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Capacity-building
  • Climate change
  • Education
  • Gender equality
  • Health
  • Integrated decision-making
  • Major Groups
  • Partnerships
  • Poverty
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
  • Sustainable development in a globalizing world
  • Technology
    • Geographic scope: Local
    Country of activity:
  • Nigeria
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1998
    Organizational structure: COMMUNITY HEALTH INFORMATION EDUCATION FORUM (CHIEF) ORGANOGRAM BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADVISORS Founder/CE/project Director ADMINISTRATIVE/ACCOUNTS PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM (PMT) PROGRAM OFFICERS WOMEN’S HEALTH/ EMPOWERMENT CHILD HEALTH YOUTH HEALTH DISEASE PREVENTION/CONTROL Founded Community Health Information Education Forum (CHIEF) incorporated on the 4th of August 1998 (RC: 11364), is a non -governmental organization, community based and health development oriented past and presently covered Lagos and Ogun States, to promote health and socio economic sustainability and right to health of disadvantaged women children and youths in community settings and advocate for Health Systems Reform (HSR) and Strengthening Goal is to reduce morbidity and mortality among disadvantaged women, children and youths Responded to women’s health through integrated and holistic approach, male and community involvement; providing advocacy, community mobilization and training women and men as Women’s Health Advocate (WHA) needs, health and rights through Behavioural Change Communication (BCC) Strategy that promotes; elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting women, Gender-Mainstreaming, Gender Based Violence, Girl-Child Education/Health, Adolescent Reproductive Health (ARH), teenage pregnancy, provision of PHC including Maternal Care Services (1998-2008); ante-natal care, labour, delivery and post-partum care including family planning, women and AIDS program, Breast and Cervical cancer early detection and treatment, Adult Female Literacy Education. Currently promote Health Facility Utilization The approach to Child Health is child survival programs through community approach and participation; growth monitoring, Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) Nutrition Education, Immunization, Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF), providing psycho-social support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Malaria prevention and Health Facility Utilization. Adolescent and Youth Health program focus on; youth identity identification, values clarification and capacity building; Behavioral Change Communication (BCC), advocacy and community approach on AIDS prevention, teenage pregnancy, substance abuse our major focus was on the out of school youths
    Number and type of members: 10 staff members, 10 volunteers and 3,000 trained volunteers/lay counselors.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: Affiliations/Networks CHIEF a member of Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, (LSACA), the Eti-Osa Local Government AIDS Action Committee (LACA), Lagos State Safe-motherhood committee, Association of CSOs working on Malaria prevention and Nutrition (ACCOMIN),
    Funding structure:
  • Fees for providing consulting or research services
  • Product sales and business services
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
    • Funding structure other: Private sector and individuals
     
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