Explore Our Commitment to Peace and Regional Stability
This section details our dedication to resolving conflicts in West Africa, outlining the objectives that drive our initiatives and the positive change we strive to achieve.
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NCEWERS (National Conflict Early Warning and Early Response System)
The NCEWERS (National Conflict Early Warning and Early Response System) Project strengthens Nigeria’s capacity to prevent and respond to rising resource-based and climate-related conflicts through improved data integration, stakeholder coordination, and community resilience. It deploys a real-time digital platform for conflict data collection, geospatial mapping, and trend analysis, complemented by a community-based monitoring model and strengthened Early Warning Response Groups and Community-Based Reconciliation Committees to ensure timely, inclusive action.
Building on prior USAID-supported initiatives that reached over 10,000 community members, the project promotes climate- and gender-responsive interventions aligned with SPRiNG’s objectives. Focused on Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, and Katsina States, NCEWERS leverages existing peace structures to deliver targeted, high-impact early warning and response interventions within the July 2025 to March 2026 implementation period.
SPARCs (Safety, Peace and Resilience in Communities)
The SPARCs (Safety, Peace and Resilience in Communities) project aims to strengthen Early Warning and Early Response (EWER) systems in eight conflict-prone LGAs across Benue State, Plateau State, Kaduna State, and Katsina State, where insecurity persists due to banditry, communal violence, weak coordination, and limited trust in existing structures. Current EWER platforms face challenges in timely response, accountability, and inclusive participation.
Through participatory assessments, targeted capacity building, and accountability tools such as public dashboards and community scorecards, the project will improve coordination, transparency, and inclusion. Supported by strong monitoring and learning systems, SPARCs aims to build sustainable, locally owned mechanisms to detect, prevent, and respond to violence.
Nigeria Peace Actors and Initiatives in Data (NPAID)
Nigeria Peace Actors and Initiatives in Data (NPAID) is a PeaceTech project implemented by Conflict Research Network West Africa with funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through the Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG) Programme and implemented by Tetra Tech International Development. The project responds to the growing complexity of violence and insecurity in Nigeria by generating rigorous, evidence-based insights to strengthen peacebuilding practice. It focuses on producing tangible, data-driven results that improve the design, targeting, and effectiveness of interventions in conflict-affected contexts.
NPAID leverages open-source data, natural language processing (NLP), and large language model (LLM)-assisted coding to analyze peace initiatives and actors across Nigeria. Building on evidence from a United States Institute of Peace-funded research project, it identifies which peacebuilding investments yield measurable outcomes, maps the key actors influencing peace processes, and highlights strategies capable of preventing the recurrence of communal and ethnic violence—particularly in Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau, and Benue States. By transforming complex data into actionable knowledge, NPAID supports more strategic decision-making and contributes to sustainable peacebuilding efforts nationwide.
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