Bege Foundation

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Bege (means HOPE in hausa language) Foundation is a non-governmental, non-profit making, non-partisan organization that works towards the well-being of vulnerable persons and communities through the entrenchment of peaceful values.

Our vision
To mobilize and empower women and youths towards a common aspiration of a sustainable future of peace, solidarity and understanding.

Our mission
To spur, and ensure a sustainable future for vulnerable persons

Aims and objectives
• To empower women and youths to gain employment or become self-employed and agent of positive change.
• To use entrepreneurial skills development as a tool for poverty reduction, conflict mitigation and promotion of social cohesion.
• To promote and strengthen democratic processes and civic education.
• To provide sustainable development, whilst strengthening and empowering communities to sustain our work.
• To promote non-formal education in fighting stereotypes, ignorance, prejudices, and inter-cultural/religious misunderstanding.
• Promote and encourage nonviolent ways of resolving conflict and freedom of rights.
• To actively engage in peace building program through trainings on conflict, mediation, reconciliation, dialogue, resilience skills and inter religious/cultural harmony.
• To strengthen and encourage good governance and social accountability.

Project:
UNESCO: The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Education (UNESCO) are working on a project called "Conflict Prevention and Countering the Appeal of Terrorism" Bege Foundation was a sub recipient of the project to implement the activity in Plateau state.

Our Activities
• De Conference: The conference is a monthly gathering of youths to discuss the role of youths in democratic processes and other youth related issues in line with contemporary challenges facing the society with the aim of proffering possible solutions and forwarding same to relevant stakeholders for actions.
• Bege Empowerment Scheme (BEEMS): The organization through BEEMS empowers women and youths with vocational skills, entrepreneurial skills and empowers them in choice skills. It also gives limited academic educational scholarship to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).
• Conflict Dialogue and Reconciliation (CODRE): The organization promote peaceful atmosphere through the instrument of conflict transformation, dialogue, and reconciliation forums. We celebrate diversity by providing a platform for people to respectfully disagree to agree. Through this component the organization also carries out a quarterly training for key stakeholders on conflict transformation, peace-building, community cohesion, mediation, concept of dialogue, reconciliation and understanding peace.
• Community Town Hall Meetings: It gives communities in conflict the platform to identify conflicting issues, proffer solutions, and agree on acceptable way forward by working together in addressing the issues through the formation of community groups.
• Community Security Network (Cosnet): COSNET is a network of vigilante groups operating at community levels, aimed at strengthening, structuring vigilante groups towards enhanced and effective peaceful community policing. The members of these groups are trained on:
• Conflict Early Warning /Early Response (EWER) and assessment; Resilience Skills; Community security Networking; Mediation; Community dialogue skills; Steps to peace
• Citizen Journalism: Community members are trained on effective and positive use of social media as a tool for positive change in communities.
• Research and Documentation: The organization carries out research on contemporary issues as it affects the society with intends to proffer solutions and way forward.
• Mandate: Mandate is a forum that gives community members the opportunities to contribute to democratic processes through interface with their elected representative, radio/TV programs. The organization carry-out training and sensitization on voters education, civil participation and the electoral processes, ensuring that electorates contribute to the democratic process.
• Peace Education: The organization contributes to the peace-building process through the training of educational stakeholders, community members, ethnic associations, unions, on peace education.

Okoko Godwin A is the Director of the Bege Foundation.

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