LIFE AT BEST DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (LABDI)
- Thematic area:
- Average annual staff numbers:
68 - Average annual number of volunteers:
190 - Average annual operational budget:
NGN $1,100,000 - Useful Links:
Strategic Plans
Annual Reports
Audited Account
Key Evaluations - NO 4 BEHIND AL-MUSSAFA WATER LAGOS STREET MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE>
Organization Mission
•Facilitate the provision of focused psychosocial support to at risk children and women. •To facilitate protection activities and support to Unaccompanied & Separated Children (UASC) through tracing and family links, support to young persons, sexual gender base violence (SGBV) and women who are victim of armed conflicts and other forms of violence. •To provide assistance and support to the vulnerable and to strengthening victims of conflicts and the like by promoting humanitarian activities through peace building and conflicts resolutions.
Organization Vision
LABDI envisions improving on the living standard of the vulnerable persons and communities through developmental and participatory initiatives to alleviate the suffering, pain and affliction of children and women, to bring hope, care and support to the vulnerable and victims of conflicts in distressful situations.
Institutional donor/partner funds received in the last five years
| Donor | Amount | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| UNICEF | =N=469,033,588.52 | 2023/2024 |
| Save the children | =N=252,886,428.92 | 2021/2024 |
| Nigeria Humanitarian Fund | $400,000.13 | 2023/2024 |
List the due diligence assessments conducted in the last 2 years
| Donor | Month | Year |
|---|---|---|
| UNICEF | n/a | 2023 |
| Terre des hommes Foundation(TDH)) | n/a | 2023 |
| Intersos | n/a | 2023 |
Sectors of operational activities
Protection
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host communities | Borno, Bama | 2024 | Provide IGA kit to CAAFAG, GBV survivors, and at-risk children in the vocational skills program. Provide family support for caregivers to improve family reintegration based on family development plan. Provide timely specialized services for survivors through referral mechanisms. Provide robust case management for survivors |
| IDPs in host communities | Borno, Ngala | 2023 | Facilitate face to face Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE) sessions. Conduct EORE safety Audit Facilitate community engagements on risk and dangers associated with Eos. Train CSO on EORE mainstreaming. Establish Explosive Ordnance Risk Education EORE clubs in schools. |
Education
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host communities | Borno, Bama | 2024 | Accelerated Education Program. Teaching at the Right Level (TArL). Catch-up Education program. School safety Map development. Training of stakeholders on education activity implementation. Back-to-school campaign/sensitization/awareness raising. Procurement and provision of scholastic materials. Provision of WASH-inclusive facilities in schools. Construction/rehabilitation/ classrooms and furniture. |
| Host communities | Borno, Maiduguri | 2023 | Accelerated Education Program. Teaching at the Right Level (TArL). Catch-up Education program. School safety Map development. Training of stakeholders on education activity implementation. Back-to-school campaign/sensitization/awareness raising. Procurement and provision of scholastic materials. Provision of WASH-inclusive facilities in schools. Construction/rehabilitation/ classrooms and furniture. |
Food Security
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host communities | Borno, Maiduguri | 2024 | a. Sustainable agricultural practices in target communities. b. Increased access to affordable and nutritious food for vulnerable communities. |
| Host communities | Borno, Bama | 2024 | n/a |
| Host communities | Borno, Bama | 2024 | n/a |
Livelihood
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host communities | Borno, Maiduguri | 2023 | a. Organize cooking demonstrations and nutritional classes to teach community members how to prepare healthy and balanced meals. b. Provide training and resources for community members to start their small-scale food businesses, such as food stalls or catering services, to improve economic opportunities and access to quality food. c. Establishing household kitchen gardens in the community to increase access to fresh and readily available food items. |
WASH
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host communities | Yobe, Nguru Potiskum | 2023 | Provision of Life-Saving Wash Assistance to Community Members in Potiskum, Yobe State: Distribution of Water Treatment Tabs to community members, Borehole rehabilitation and periodic operation and maintenance services, Conduct refresher training for WASHCOM, WASH facility functionality assessment, constructed 1 solar powered 100 meters’ boreholes, Constructed 12 communal latrines, In collaboration with WASHCOM, VHPs conducted Sanitation facility cleaning campaign, Conducted Hygiene Promotion Focus Group Sessions for Menstrual Hygiene Management, Distribute menstrual hygiene kits to registered adolescent girls and carried out Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM). |
| Host communities | Borno, Kwaya Kusar | 2024 | Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS): Triggering, Training of WASHCOM, Training of Voluntary Hygiene Promotion, Water Safety Planning Training, WASHiN Schools, WASH at Health Facility and Behavior Change Communication. |
| Host communities | Borno, Shani | 2023 | Small Town Wash (S-WASH): Identification and Training of WCAs, Strengthen WCAs, Identify and Training VHPs, Community engagement on water tariffing, Identify and train local area mechanics (LAM) Identify and train scheme operators and water kiosk managers, Train WCAs, WASH Unit and Hygiene promoters on Water Safety Planning. Conduct quarterly pay to sustain campaign and conduct WASH Investment plan for Shani LGA. |
Nutrition
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host communities | Borno, Maiduguri | 2024 | Treatment and rehablitation of children 6-59 months with uncomplicated SAM. Promotion of optimal complementary feeding through Quarterly cooking demonstrations targeting caregivers of children 6-23 months by HWs and CNMs. IYCF messaging to pregnant and lactating women at facility and community level. Conducting quarterly exhaustive mass screening. Promotion of kitchen gardens in households in MMC and Jere LGAs. |
| Host communities | Borno, Dikwa | 2023 | Conduct Hygiene Promotion to PLWs, mothers and caregivers of children under 5 years with SAM cases. Conduct training on CMAM and IYCF for LABDI nutrition staff and government health workers across all project location. Carry out community awareness sessions on GBV in the OTPs, TSFP sites. Conduct weekly MUAC screening and checking Oedema of children under five in IDP camps and host communities by Community nutrition mobilizers at community level and by CMAM officer/health workers at OTP and TSFP sites. |
| Host communities | Yobe, Nguru Potiskum | 2024 | Treatment and rehablitation of children 6-59 months with uncomplicated SAM. Promotion of optimal complementary feeding through Quarterly cooking demonstrations targeting caregivers of children 6-23 months by HWs and CNMs. IYCF messaging to pregnant and lactating women at facility and community level. Conducting quarterly exhaustive mass screening. |
Health
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children | Borno, Dikwa | 2023 | Conduct weekly MUAC screening and checking Oedema of children under five in IDP camps and host communities by Community nutrition mobilizers at community level and by CMAM officer/health workers at OTP and TSFP sites. Conduct 2 rounds of mass MUAC screening session across implementing catchment locations. Mothers and caregivers will be trained on family MUAC approach. Admit and treat 6-59 months children with MAM using Tom Brown approach |
Shelter
| Who | Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children | Borno, Maiduguri | 2024 | N/A |
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