The dRPC is the only local Nigerian non-profit with 32 years of consistent high impact work, targeting and supporting girls with a focus on girls’ education and ending child marriage.
With Ford Foundation funding, the dRPC championed strategies and intervention to end child marriage in West Africa in a milestone work which has come to shape the African Union’s policy on ending child marriage and the pathbreaking work of GirlsNotBrides. https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/documents/1222/Ford-Foundation-CM-West-Africa-2013_09-1.pdf
Our girls’ education work complements the dRPC’s research and interventions on ending child marriage. With 32 years of work supporting girls’ education and building girl champions through economic empowerment programs. The dRPC’s girls’ education and girls’ empowerment work covers Nigeria and West African countries such as the Niger Republic, Ghana, Liberia and many other countries.
From our early years leading on ECCD policy adoption and pilot testing in Nigeria in the late 1990s with Bernard Van Leer Foundation funding to our current safe schools and girls empowerment portfolio supported by the Ford Foundation.
The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) is registered intermediary non-profit organization established with a mission of strengthening the capacity (organizational and technical capacity) of civil society organizations to design and implement transformative and sustainable development interventions which engage government and address felt needs of the vulnerable and excluded such as women and girls.
