i. Participation
Full and equal participation and representation of every Nigeria at all levels of decision-making, including peace-processes, and non-state actors.
ii. Protection
Ensuring authorities and others in power respect their own obligations to preserve the physical integrity, safety and dignity of people affected by conflict and violence.
iii. Conflict Prevention
Address the continuum of violence and to adopt a holistic perspective of peace based on equality, human rights and human security for all, including the most marginalized in conflicts areas.
iv. Relief and Recovery
Access to health services and trauma counseling of conflicts regions including for survivors of sexual,gender-based violence, Farmers-Herder’s conflict, insurgents, and banditry.
v. Conduct a Situation Assessment
Brainstorm priority areas to identify civil society groups, government officials and other relevant parties that are currently relevant to 4DRDP’programme of work and may serve as coalition allies to ensure robust engagement with government actors and non-state actors.
vi. Reach OuttoKey Stakeholders
The best mode of civil society engagement must also be determined. Often, the creation of an inter-agency task force is helpful, because it can be used to bring together support from diverse demographics in the NGO world and powerful sponsors within the government thatsuch a task force should include: Minority ethnic groups; Women’s organizations; Migrant women’s organizations; Indigenous women’s organizations; Internal displaced and/or refugee women’s organizations; Academic or research institutions; United Nations organizations; Local and National government and military and Police.
vii. Quality Peacebuilding Financing
Rather than a purely financial partnership where local peace actors often function as little more than service deliverers, there is a need for more active strategic partnership between donors, intermediaries and local peace actors who should all have an equal role in how the project is developed and how funding is allocated, monitored, and reviewed.
Donors should recognize that within partnerships, money is only a contribution to the co-creation of projects that serve the goals of conflict prevention, peacebuilding and sustaining peace.
Creating collaborative capacity-building assessment processes that allow organisations being assessed, their networks, and the communities they serve to have a role inidentifying what capacities need to be strengthened and how to meet those needs.