Excellency,
Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) is a community-focused CSOs
network/think-tank of about 1000 organizations especially in the global South;
exploring the nexus/interlinkages between Health [Universal Health Coverage, HIV/AIDS, TB, FP/RH
and Malaria - prevention, treatment, impact mitigation, care and support], Energy and Environment [climate change,
biodiversity and ecosystems, Nutrition and Food Security, and Gender, Good
Governance and Human Rights. We are committed to the promotion of
Health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and
realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); using Partnerships and collaborations; Advocacy, communication/media and social/resource mobilization
(ACSM); Research/evidence-generation including
conferences, seminars, symposia and workshops; Capacity development; Outreaches and
community engagements; and Monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) as our PARCOM Strategy;
while focusing on rural and poor urban communities, marginalized, vulnerable,
physically disadvantaged/disabled population and other disadvantaged
populations especially women, children, adolescents and elderly. and AFRIHEALTH
has a Consultative Status at the United Nations ECOSOC. Incorporated in 2003, AFRIHEALTH Network and
its members are involved in Health [Universal Health Coverage, HIV/AIDS, TB,
FP/RH and Malaria - prevention, treatment, impact mitigation, care and
support]; Vaccinations/Immunizations; Preventing/Controlling poverty-related
Diseases; Nutrition and Food Security; Energy and Environment; and Empowerment,
Gender/women empowerment, Good Governance and Human Rights. Incorporated in
Nigeria as a not-for-profit, non-religious and non-partisan registered trustees
in 2003, AFRIHEALTH uses Partnerships/Collaborations (PPP); Advocacy and
Mobilizations; Research/Evidence-Generation (reviews, assessment, oversight,
conferences, symposiums, seminars); Capacity Development/Training and
Organizational Strengthening; Outreaches/Community Interventions; and Monitoring
and Evaluation (M&E) - called PARCOM Strategy to achieve its objectives;
while focusing on rural and poor urban communities, marginalized, vulnerable
and disadvantaged populations especially women, children, adolescents and
elderly; and exploring the nexus/interlinkages between Health, Energy and
Environment – including renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy
conservation, climate change, biodiversity and ecosystems; Nutrition and Food
Security, and Gender, Good Governance/Democracy and Human Rights. Its target
beneficiaries include the poorest of the poor, children/infants and orphans,
women, youth/adolescents, vulnerable population/groups and the elderly in rural
and urban/suburban communities. Afri-health Optonet Association has a Consultative
Status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
Click on any of the respective link(s) below
to post your message for the attention of the NGOs in our Network:
For country a specific/named platform, please
click on only one country or your own country if applicable:
AFRIHEALTH Naija <https://chat.whatsapp.com/K8vJzM5fGzDLUkUpMJmra4>
AFRIHEALTH Africa <https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ji87M2e96Zn5SooS7osonN>
AFRIHEALTH Global <https://chat.whatsapp.com/BJgAyb3tyO27eC1mHM1DRl>
AFRIHEALTH North Africa Region <https://chat.whatsapp.com/GNnHYnpzrua5xgeECedEal>
AFRIHEALTH West and Central Africa Regions
<https://chat.whatsapp.com/Ltd1h7ZbvzXHVBMxdlL7xm>
AFRIHEALTH Southern and Eastern Africa
Regions <https://chat.whatsapp.com/IRlt8zk6sWD1ONmLjY2Cu5>
AFRIHEALTH Kenya <https://chat.whatsapp.com/2GUiJRokGge9WbdPSBJU7z>
Health, Food and Human Security (HEFOSS link
on Telegram): https://t.me/joinchat/HQnG4hL5xbTZaMHgCdhIBA
Telegram link for HEFOSS <https://t.me/+EvnFtLEEyBAJ2EgE>
Coalition on Vaccines, Vitamins, Minerals,
and Immunizations for All (CoVIA) project <https://chat.whatsapp.com/IE5cwLxQpPt9XcciGav1gW>
Civil Society for Elimination of Gender-Based
Violence (CS4EGBV) project <https://chat.whatsapp.com/FdvVf1ZlRePBVj8GOcQjMt>
Civil Society Actions on Climate, Energy and
Biodiversity (CiSACEB) Programme <https://chat.whatsapp.com/F63WPn7NKurHAGSQ3Hcqle>
Telegram link for CS4EGBV <https://t.me/+TePBHn8xFSqXXA_h>
The Benefits of belonging to Afrihealth
Optonet Association (AHOA) - CSOs Network
Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) is a community-focused CSOs
network/think-tank of about 1000 organizations especially in the global South
promoting of Sustainable Citizens Participation in Development Work and
Systems Strengthening for the achievement of Agenda 2030 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2063; and exploring the nexus/interlinkages
between Health [Universal Health Coverage, HIV/AIDS, TB, FP/RH and Malaria
- prevention, treatment, impact mitigation, care and support];
Vaccinations/Immunizations; Preventing/Controlling poverty-related Diseases;
Nutrition and Food Security; Energy and Environment (including renewable
energy, energy efficiency, energy conservation, climate change, biodiversity
and ecosystems); and Gender/Women and Girls, Empowerment, Good Governance, Democracy
and Human Rights. Incorporated in Nigeria as a not-for-profit, non-religious
and non-partisan registered trustees in 2003, AFRIHEALTH uses
Partnerships/Collaborations (public-private partnerships or PPP); Advocacy and
Mobilizations; Research/Evidence-Generation (reviews, assessment, oversight,
conferences, symposiums, seminars); Capacity Development/Training and
Organizational Strengthening; Outreaches/Community Interventions; and
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) - called PARCOM Strategy to achieve its
objectives. Its target/focus beneficiaries include rural and poor
urban/suburban communities/settings, marginalized, vulnerable and disadvantaged
populations/groups especially women, girls, widows, youth, children,
adolescents, the elderly, poorest of the poor, infants and orphans. Afri-health
Optonet Association has a Consultative Status at the United Nations
ECOSOC.
The benefits of becoming a member/partner of
AFRIHEALTH Optonet Association are by no means exhaustive, and include:
1. Members/partners are able to broaden their
base of support to submit proposals for funding and support, access
opportunities and receive mutual benefits in the magnitude they could not gain
individually or on their own;
2. Individual members/partners from various
countries and diverse cultures are provided with the platform and opportunity
to engage and collaborate with each other for the greater good of all, while
retaining their independence;
3. Members/partners gain leverage and improve
their negotiation results through the banding together of older, bigger and/or
stronger organizations with other relatively newer, smaller and/or weaker ones
in AFRIHEALTH; who are thereby able to harness/access the resources needed to
successfully face tough situations;
4. Members/partners can focus on their strengths
while relying on the supports/strengths of other Network partners in other
areas and still share in the accomplishments with other members/partners;
5. Members/partners who might otherwise lose opportunities
in competition with one another, shall now join forces to negotiate in a
mutual, collective and organized manner with funders, development partners,
international bodies, governments, embassies/foreign missions, businesses,
political parties, etc. in a win-win situation for everyone;
6. By combining efforts and sharing experiences
and resources, AFRIHEALTH members/partners learn from each other, receive
capacity building support, acquire new skills, and broaden their knowledge,
income and abilities;
7. By sharing resources, members/partners of
AFRIHEALTH mutually benefit from the maxim of “the sum is often greater than
the parts”, as shared resources often mean that the Network partners/members
can overcome deficiencies together;
8. Development requires money, people and time;
and the increased number of organizations/people in the Network usually means
that it will take shorter/less time and cost less to accomplish an objective
with the combined effort;
9. Different organizations/partners coming
together in AFRIHEALTH shall provide diversity for each member-organization to
broaden its reach and accomplishments by working with other organizations that
are associated with the same or similar health and development issues or causes.
AFRIHEALTH’S Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs)
are:
1. AIDS/HIV, TB,
Malaria and COVID-19
2. Biodiversity,
Ecosystems, Energy and Climate Change
3. Empowerment and
Support to Civil Society and Communities
4. Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)
5. Governance, Democracy
and Development
6. Health, Human Security
and Food Security for All
7. Vaccines, Vitamins and
Immunizations
AFRIHEALTH’S Projects Advisory Panels (PAPs)
are:
i. Partnerships/Collaborations;
ii. Advocacy,
Communications and Social/Resource Mobilization;
iii. Research/Evidence
Generation;
iv. Capacity
Development and Education;
v. Outreaches;
vi. Monitoring, Evaluation (M&E) and
Knowledge Management.
Development Work means “the process(es) of
formulating/conceptualizing, planning, implementing, monitoring,
evaluating, auditing, improving, and expanding valued or service-oriented
social, economic, political and faith-related works/issues/services,
programmes, projects, policies, practices, documentations, results, changes and
items; in participatory/mainstreaming manners/approaches among humanity,
indigenous people, citizens, those marginalized, in the communities and all the
fields of human endeavour; including without limitation, all deliverables,
materials, inventions, designs, notes, records, memoranda, documents, models,
prototypes, scale-ups, and other materials, as well as all enhancements,
derivatives, and modifications thereof, and all target, input, output, outcome,
impact, and intellectual property thereto.”[1]
'Sustainable Citizen Participation (SCP)' is a development model espoused
by Afrihealth Optonet Association in 2017-18 in Nigeria's Niger Delta region;
with funding support from the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF).
• Sustainable Citizen Participation (SCP) means that governments involve
citizens in policies formulation, planning and execution of the society’s
activities, such that citizens will be able to engage with their government and
leaders on a regular and sustained basis; as currently, majority of the
citizens are only able to interact with their governments/leaders at the
latter’s leisure.
• Sustainable Citizen Participation (SCP) will entail the redistribution of
power that enables the have-not citizens, presently excluded from the political
and economic processes, to be deliberately included. It is the strategy
by which the have-nots join in determining how information is shared, goals and
policies are set, tax resources are allocated, programs are operated, projects
are designed, implemented, monitored and benefits like contracts and patronage
are parceled out. In short, it is the means by which they can induce
significant social reform which enables them to share in the benefits of the
affluent society.
[1] Adirieje, Uzodinma. Sustainable Citizen
Participation in Development Work: definitions and concepts, 2022
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje
CEO, Afrihealth Optonet Association - CSOs Network with
consultative status at UN ECOSOC
President, Society for Conservation and
Sustainability of Energy and Environment in Nigeria (SOCSEEN)
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje provides
consultancy services including evaluation, monitoring, reviews,
training/mentoring, conferences/workshops/seminars/symposia/meetings
facilitation/management, projects/programmes management, oversight, evidence
and systems strengthening services in Health Systems and Development
interventions/works, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Primary Health
Care (PHC), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), Immunization, HIV/AIDS, TB,
Malaria, Environment, Renewable Energy, Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Energy
Efficiency and Conservation, Climate Change (REEBEECCC); Nutrition and Food
Security; Gender, Governance and Human Rights.
Uzodinma is a Health Economist, Certified Management Consultant,
Monitoring and Evaluation Sepcialist, Accredited Management Trainer and
Facilitator; independent certified consultant and facilitator for Health/Dev’t
Systems strengthening, Advocacy, Community Engagements, Research/Evidence,
Training/Capacity Development, Conferences/Workshops, Projects/Programmes
Management/Monitoring/Evaluation and Capacity/Organizational. Dev't;
Columnist/Writer
Twitter: @uaadirieje; https://twitter.com/uaadirieje; @DAdirieje;
Email: afrepton@gmail.com
Instalgram: @druzoadirieje; https://www.instagram.com/druzoadirieje/
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/uzoadirieje;
Skype: druzoadirieje, druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com;
Zoom: druzoadirieje2015@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://ng.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Dr.+Uzodinma/Adirieje
Phone, Telegram & WhatsApp: +234 803 472 5905
Website: http://www.afrihealthcsos.org
https://afrihealthoptonetassociation.blogspot.com
Blog: http://druzodinmadirieje.blogspot.com
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