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The project examines the location and distribution of modern healthcare centres in Bayelsa State, Nigeria and reviews the utilization patterns of these services especially for reproductive healthcare by the population in the remote communities. The project adopted a participatory approach entailing direct interaction with the youths, women and adult males in the communities. The findings show that reproductive health knowledge is poor because existing facilities are inaccessible to the vast proportion of the population in the remote isolated villages. It was therefore recommended with the input of the stakeholders that action plan to ensure the provision of modern health care in the remote communities should be put in place by the state and the local governments. Such programmes must entail the use of community members and the private sector in the improvement of services. The recommendations have provided a framework for the on-going action plan by the state government and other public and private sector actors. The project was jointly funded by CPED and the Carnegie Corporation through the Harvard School of Public Health.

Population growth and the need for stabilization are crucial to the solution of the poverty problems of the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. It is against this background that a joint action research was carried out by CPED and the Niger Delta Environmental Survey (NDES) sponsored by oil companies operating in the region. The survey carried out a participatory action research entailing the participation of key stakeholders in different parts of the Niger Delta Region. This is against the background of the fact that the last national census was carried out in 1991 and current information on the population features are needed for planning the action programmes expected to be carried out by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), which will soon be established. The findings of the broad regional survey show that in some of the remote villages in the region the natural rate of population increase is 4.8 percent, total fertility rate 9.4 per woman, unmet family planning is 58.7 percent, contraceptive prevalent rate is 5.6 percent for modern methods and 11.6 percent for other methods. An action plan for the improvement of the situation was prepared and it is ready for use by state and non-state actors in the region.

This is also a joint project with the Niger Delta Environmental Survey sponsored by the Petroleum Oil Companies in the Niger Delta. The findings of the action research show that the region is characterized by isolated small villages, which makes it economically difficult to provide basic social and infrastructural facilities to the scattered population in creeks and swamps. It was also found that as a result of this situation, the region lack basic social and infrastructural services and the vast proportion of the population live under abject poverty and deprivation. As a result of the findings, CPED and NDES have prepared an action plan which the new Niger Delta Development Commission to be established will use a baseline framework for action on the improvement of the provision of infrastructure in the region which is strategic naturally and internationally. The consortium of corporate oil companies operating in the region provided the funds for the project.

Although petroleum resources exploitation dominates the economy of the Niger Delta Region and also contribute to some of the social and environmental problems of the region, there is no doubt that oil production cannot provide employment opportunities for the grassroots population. It is against this background that CPED was commissioned by the Delta State Government of Nigeria in association with TAS a public policy organization to carry out a grassroots action research on the political economy of the Niger Delta Region. The findings and action proposals of the project show that opportunities for income generation and poverty reduction exist within the non-oil sector of the region, which should be exploited. The report is providing the basis for further action by the Delta State Government.

CPED was commissioned by Shell Petroleum Development in association with a firm of urban planners in Warri to review the community needs of Ogulagha and thereafter prepare an action master plan for the development of the community. This has been some and CPED is still discussing the possibility of its involvement in the implementation.

This survey carried out for the Delta State Environmental Protection Agency, examines and identifies the threatened species in the Ethiope River Basin in the Niger Delta within the framework of the global lists (compiled by IUCN) and a national list in the form of the Federal Endangered Species (Control of International Trade and Traffic) Act, promulgated in Decree No. 11 of 1985. The survey identified the threatened species that are in the Ethiope River Basin and made recommendations on the need for effective conservation.