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The project was funded by the European Commission, Brussels for the period 2002-2005 in five major ethnic group areas in Delta State. The project has one main purpose, which is to improve the availability, accessibility and utilization of reproductive health services in the five target communities in Delta State of Nigeria by 2005. The baseline survey focused on the prevailing reproductive health facilities and utilization patterns, which provided the background for intervention activities. The communities were fully mobilized for participation in the project, their leaders and community-based organization trained and 12 health centers rehabilitated and equipped to improve the delivery of reproductive health services. The needed impact of the project was made on the reproductive health situation in the target community areas.

The project was financed by Shell Foundation, London, United Kingdom for the period 2002-2005. The project aimed to create more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable livelihoods for small/medium scale cassava farmers in jeese Community through improved farming techniques, efficient processing of raw cassava output (Gerri) from farms and promoting opportunities for the marketing of cassava products in national and international markets. The intervention sought to increase the income of cassava staple food producers in the area. About 2,000 cassava producers in the community were trained on modern techniques of cassava production. The intervention activities in terms of cassava production, processing and marketing had considerable impact on the 600-cassava farmers in fifteen villages in the project area. The farmers were organized into fifteen cooperative societies.

This action research which was founded by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) was designed to identify and examine the available non-formal education and vocational program in Niger Delta, Nigeria with specific reference to Rivers and Bayelsa State. It also compared the different types of training programs and their relevance to the needs of the youths. Further more, it considered how the quality and patterns of non-formal education can be improved; and finally it articulated an action program for implementation by various agencies interested in non-formal education in the Niger Delta region.

This project founded by CORDAID, Netherlands was designed to improve and strengthen the sustainable participation of the grassroots civil society actors in Oghara in the decision-making process on political, social and economic matters affecting them. It also aimed at enhancing the capacities of community-based organization (CBOs), in Oghara Community in Delta State so as to optimize their impact on health care services provision and management in particular, and other poverty reduction activities in general. The project resulted in the strengthened capacity of 35 men, 35 women and 35 youth community-based organizations and about 1,000 of their members to be actively involved in reproductive health services education and provision amongst their members and others within their communities, as well as providing best practices for adoption in other communities in Nigeria. There were improved basic health care services for at least 25,000 members of Oghara Community at the end of the project.

This action research which was funded by MacArthur Foundation seeks to describe and analyze the phenomenon of rural-rural migration within the Niger Delta region and its implications for poverty alleviation in the source and receiving rural communities. In specific terms the study focused, on the examination of the patterns and trends of development within the Niger Delta Region and their effects on rural communities located in different parts of the region, examination of the environmental and socio-economic conditions in rural communities within which migration decisions are made in the Niger Delta Region; examination of the socio-economic impacts of rural migration on the rural communities of the Niger Delta Region; and examination of the policy implications of the present trends and consequences of rural migration for poverty alleviation in the rural communities of Niger Delta region. The findings show that internal migration provides opportunity for poverty reduction in terms of transfer of income to and from sending and receiving communities in the region.