ACTIVITIES

Exploring Solutions Together

Our Research for Policy and Practice Activities are directed to supporting decision-makers, implementers, and service providers.  CHF has carried out activities in all regions of Nigeria, particularly in Northeastern Nigeria. 

  • Training and capacity strengthening on participatory community strategies for human capital development.
  • Research into infectious diseases of poverty including river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths, malaria, HIV/AIDS, maternal and child health, and nutrition.
  • Evidence for the Community Directed Intervention Strategy of the WHO-African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control

  • Our Geographic Focus and Network covers entire northern Nigeria and the Southwestern Ondo and Osun States. CHF’s greatest strength is in building networks and working with collaborators and partners with complementary skills and advantages.  
  • CHF works through evidence generation and use for policy and practice. 
  • Our partners include community education committees, organisations with interest in elderly care, community health worker education and training institutions and piloting women empowerment for food production

  • Our Geographic Focus and Network covers entire northern Nigeria and the Southwestern Ondo and Osun States. CHF’s greatest strength is in building networks and working with collaborators and partners with complementary skills and advantages.  
  • CHF works through evidence generation and use for policy and practice. 
  • Our partners include community education committees, organisations with interest in elderly care, community health worker education and training institutions and piloting women empowerment for food production

  • Evidence for teacher recruitment, education, and management
  • Learning and teaching in conflict and crisis situations
  • Educational technology, learning in emergency situations (COVID 19) 
  • Development of strategy for knowledge co-production.
  • Community participation particularly for increasing access of marginalized peoples to health, education, and other social protection services 
  • Series of implementation research activities. Sample projects 2009-present available