About Us
Brief History of Chedcom
CHEDCOM was birthed through the vision of the Founder, Olusina Olusegun Olulana, the CEO who seeing the name of the organisation in his dream way back 1997 quickly wrote it down. It was meant to be one of his exit strategies from the world of international development which he delved into in 1993 as a consultant to the defunct CEDPA, The Center for Educational Development and Population Activities with Home Office in Washington, CD, United States of America.
It was established in 1999 but was formally registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abuja, with the Certificate of Incorporation of the Incorporated Trustees of THE CENTRE FOR HEALTH, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNIVATION (CHEDCOM) on August 13, 2004 with Registration No. CAC/IT/NO 17297
Our Mission
To empower the individual, family and community members to reduce their socio-economic vulnerability to easily preventable health and development challenges through adequate information dissemination, education and communication.
Our Vision
A society that enjoys innovative and community-responsive interventions/initiatives with an informed, educated, healthy and highly developed people socially in an abundance-based economy.
Our Overarching Goal
To utilise a variety of social and behavior change interventions/strategies to empower individuals, families and communities for the enhancement of an environment that supports qualitative personal and communal health, socioeconomic development that will bring them out of poverty and the related consequences.
Our Objectives
Conduct specific qualitative and quantitative researches on community-based health, education and poverty alleviation programmes and disseminate the results through publications, conferences, seminars, workshops etc. in Nigeria and elsewhere
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Collaborate and network with governmental and nongovernmental as well as local and international organisations to execute health, education, environmental, financial empowerment and development-related projects in the rural and urban communities.
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Provide/facilitate short-term capacity building training programmes for individual, groups, educational and corporate institutions on financial empowerment, poverty eradication, clean energy, health, education, environment and gender including democracy and good governance.
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Initiate, implement monitor and evaluate programmes health, sexual and reproductive health, population, HIV/AID/STIs, youth and adolescents, child survival, environmental development (including water and sanitation) in rural communities, secondary and tertiary institutions pan-Nigeria primarily to raise awareness and disseminate relevant information to the intended audiences
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Organise Interpersonal Communication/Counselling training workshops and seminars for frontline healthcare workers onsite and offsite.
Our Strategy
To achieve our Mission, we will apply the principles of Primary Health Care, participatory Non-Formal Education and Community Development as well as key lessons learned from successful projects worldwide to evolving broad-base community education, health and development programmes. These includes :
Designing, producing and distributing educational and training materials (print and electronic)
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Designing and implementing community development activities (including micro-credit schemes for women’s groups and out-of-school youth)
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Gender development
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Use of peer-to-peer education approach for information dissemination
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Use of alternative media for information dissemination and education (enter-educate approach)
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Use of social media
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Gender development
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Periodical publications and productions
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Promotion of dialogues between sexes
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Promotion of parent-child communication on reproductive health (family life) education
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Promotion of organisational communication and mobilisation
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Public education (non-formal) and advocacy for community development
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Rallies, talks, campaigns, community outreaches, seminars on community health and development issues
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Telephone hotlines services for counselling
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Networking with other NGOs and bodies with similar vision and mission
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Use of mass media/mass communication for information dissemination and education of individuals, families, and communities
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Use of mass media/mass communication for information dissemination and education of individuals, families, and communities
Our Position on the Sustainable Development Goals
CHEDCOM, like any other corporately responsible development organisation supports the clarion call for the actualisation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals: (No poverty, No Hunger, Good Health, Good Education, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Clean Energy, Good Jobs and Economic Growth, Innovation and Infrastructure, Reduced Inequalities, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Responsible Consumption, Protect the Planet, Life below the water, Life on Land, Peace and Justice and Partnerships for the Goals)
Management Structure
The highest decision-making body of CHEDCOM is the Board of Trustees headed by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to which the Executive Director (ED) reports. The ED is the administrative head assisted by the designated key staff as may be necessary across the various project-beneficiary locations. An External Auditor is engaged on Adhoc basis to carry out periodic audit on the organisation’s account.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Meet The Team Behind
Our Success
Mrs. Rachael Olutoyin Adediji
Mr. Ima Nkanta
Mrs. Olajumoke Onazi
Mr. Yemi Oludele Olayemi
Mrs.Omowumi Sina-Olulana
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