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Halfway Through The Second Cohort
Three months into the programme, the fellows have been neck-deep in their work. From issues around domestic and sexual violence, advocacy visits, stakeholder engagements and gaps in the election processes, the month of March has been quite eventful. What have they been up to? In Adamawa, Nazir Mohammed initiated contact with the community leaders of Waja/Lunguda in Boshikiri and travelled for a meeting/baseline study on areas around his project. On the other hand, because of…
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Fellows Roll Up Sleeves And Get Busy In Their Communities
Welcome to another edition of the HumAngle Accountability Newsletter to keep you up-to-date on the activities of our fellows in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. This month, the fellows were kept busy carrying out a range of activities at the grassroots, from advocacy and documenting important stories across different communities in the BAY states. What have they been up to? Aisha in Yobe visited a primary school in Kasaisa, where there are over 500 children enrolled…
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What Have Our Fellows Been Up To
As we felicitate with our readers on the new year, HumAngle kickstarted the year with a new adventure – the onboarding of the second cohort of the Accountability Fellowship Program, with support from the MacArthur Foundation. Following a rigorous evaluation, we selected nine promising young men and women from Nigeria’s BAY states to participate in the second cohort of the HumAngle Accountability Fellowship. The fellows underwent a 3-day in-person training and onboarding that introduced them…
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HumAngle 2023 Fellowship Onboarding Ends: What Next for The Fellows?
The official onboarding of the 2023 cohort of the HumAngle Accountability Fellowship ended on Jan. 14. On Jan. 12, HumAngle began an in-house training of nine young persons from Northeast Nigeria (Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe) on its accountability fellowship. The fellows were welcomed and inducted at the head office in Abuja. A similar thing was done for the first Cohort in July 2022. As part of the method conceived by HumAngle to furnish the cohort…
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HumAngle 2023 Accountability Fellowship: Fellows As Agents
The HumAgle Accountability Fellowship entered its second in-person training day yesterday, Jan. 13. Experts from the fields of research, accountability, activism, journalism, and humanitarian aid were brought in to train the fellows. The first day of the training had focused on trainings around grassroots organizing and mobilization. Director of the Nigeria office at the MacArthur Foundation, Dr Kole Shettima, had a brief session with the fellows where he urged them to be people of integrity…
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HumAngle Selects 9 New Fellows For Accountability Programme
Following a rigorous evaluation period, HumAngle has selected nine young men and women from Nigeria’s BAY states to participate in the second cohort of its Accountability Fellowship. The programme, which is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, was started to prepare young early career professionals to develop local projects around accountability in the security and humanitarian sectors, climate security, education, sexual and gender-based violence, and transitional justice. The participants are from various senatorial districts in Nigeria’s…
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And It’s A Wrap!
Six months have flown by in a blink of an eye, and with that, so has the fellowship. It’s with both sadness and joy that we are bidding our fellows goodbye, who have so wonderfully excelled in the programme, and contributed immensely to the success of the first cohort. The programme has equipped them with the skills they need to promote accountability and also excel in their future work, wherever it takes them. As ambassadors…
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As the HumAngle Fellowship Comes To A Close …
The Accountability Fellowship is about to reach its close, the HumAngle team and our fellows couldn’t be prouder of what they’ve achieved over the course of five months. Just last week, after our fellow from Borno’s report was published on the recent flooding in a community in the state, has led to the immediate demolition and restructuring by the village head to avoid a recurrence in the future. Also in line with the mandate of…
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Fellows Spotlight The Effects Of Climate Change On Their Communities
Welcome again to another edition of our newsletter, where we share how busy our fellows have been over the past month. Headlines this September have not fallen short of highlighting the heavy rainfall and increased flooding of local communities, rendering many people homeless, and means of livelihood destroyed by water. If you’ve been keeping up to date with our reports, then you know that we have been at the very forefront of telling these underreported…
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As The Fellowship Reaches Halfway Mark, Fellows Making The Best Of Time Left…
As we reach the halfway mark of our fellowship, the fellows have been picking up the pace in a bid to report the accountability gaps in the communities before the programme comes to an end in November. Three months in, the selected fellows have published reports on the crucial issues affecting communities in their senatorial districts within the BAY states such as water scarcity, deforestation, and flooding. The monthly training sessions have also continued to…
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