Concern for Women and Children Development Foundation
(COWACDI) is a woman- led organization born out of passion for the wellbeing of
Women and Children in Nigeria. It has a special interest in mitigating the
suffering of the vulnerable persons (mostly Women & Children) in times of
crisis. Currently the organization has focused its attention on the Northeast
of Nigeria with special emphasis in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states (the BAY
states) due to the decade old crises. COWACDI intervenes through community-based
approach in addressing Gender-Based Violence prevention and response
programmes, child protection, peace-building programmes and empowerment of
youth and women. Since its establishment in 2005, humanitarian and
developmental interventions have been implementing in Protection, Peace
Building, Housing Land & Property (HLP), Non-food Items (NFI), Livelihood.
COWACDI operates with full respect for humanitarian law and works with concrete
policies and principles of international standard such as humanity, do no harm,
impartiality, neutrality and independence and accountability to affected
population and Zero Tolerance to Fraud and related activities.
