Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI)

About us

Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI) is a non-political, non-religious and non-profit organization committed to the promotion of health and protection of the well-being of families in Africa (CAC/IT/No. 49787). Driven by a vision of Healthy Families; Healthy Societies, CFHI’s mission is to develop a safe and accommodating society for all, through community driven and family centred health interventions, socio-economic empowerment, research and policy development.

CFHI utilizes locally identified strategies, partners with relevant bodies to achieve a safer and healthier society with active community involvement. It has experience implementing projects across its focus areas: Community Health advocacy, community activation/demand creation and interventions; Maternal Newborn and Child Health; Adolescent and Youth Programs (AYP); Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; Water (WASH), Sanitation and Hygiene; Youth and Adolescents Health; Social and Economic Empowerment of vulnerable populations; Orphans and Vulnerable Children services; Capacity development; Microenterprise training and support; Gender advocacy and intervention; Project Evaluation and Implementation Science.

Our Mission
To develop a safe and accommodating society for all, through community driven and family-centered health interventions, socio-economic empowerment, and research-based policy development.

Our Vision
Healthy Families, Healthy Societies

Corporate goals:
Community Health Improvements:
• Centre for Family Health Initiative has a long history of active involvement in the promotion of human well-being. It provides material and financial support, educational and skill acquisition services, awareness creation, health care workers‘ training and health advocacy, infectious disease prevention and control, MNCH (Maternal, Newborn and Child Health) promotion and provision of important links between communities and the government.
• CFHI builds capacity for health and social development across all levels – Individual level, societal level, and institutional level in order to achieve goals and sustainability over time. To provide adequate knowledge and information to staff for optimal performance, community health promotion and socio economic strengthening to drive development projects in Nigeria, CFHI builds capacities of key frontline workers and community volunteers across several states in Nigeria through conferences, workshops, and staff retreats.
Sustainable social and Economic Empowerment:
• CFHI provides GBV (Gender Based Violence) advocacy and intervention, as well as numerous vocational skills and basic financial training to indigent women and youths, with some of the participants receiving small grants to establish sustainable businesses, linked others to financial institutions, and made immediate cash transfers to very vulnerable households, so as to enhance their earning power and improve their household economy.
Evidence-Based Policy Development:
• CFHI through conferences with policy makers and social media advocacy, influences change in National and international policy, by proffering solutions based on our experiences and research in different communities and in strategic areas. CFHI serves as Third Party Monitor (TPM) in implementing National Social Investment Programme (N-SIP) in partnership with the Nigerian government and other relevant Community based organizations to reduce poverty and unemployment among vulnerable and economically excluded groups in Nigeria.
• Aside contributing to the knowledge base and debate around critical issues on the inter-linkages among societal growth, poverty, inequality and globalization, CFHI generates knowledge relevant to the prevalent situation in communities, to allow it to determine its particular health problems, appraise the measures available for dealing with them, and choose the actions likely to produce the greatest improvement in health. Ensuring that the available resources to finance these health challenges are used in the most efficient and effective way possible.

Mrs. Princess Osita-Oleribe is the Executive Director of the Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI).

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