Enhancing Comprehensive service delivery on TB/HIV/AIDs prevention and impact mitigation in rural communities of Nigeria through Citizen media services (ENHANCE PROJECT). ENHANCE project was born after the design of 10 year strategic plan on comprehensive TB/HIV/AIDS service delivery by our organization. Deliverable 1. The concept of this project is to trained 60 community health service providers in rural communities rural communities of Nigeria on technical ways of documenting their project report through documentary films and bring it to a global audience 2. create a blogger
Topical focus:
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Calabar
Describe the specific population with whom you will be working.
Efut community is located in the located in cross River state with an estimated population of about 500,000 person.
The communities we have identified are under represented online with a high prevalence of communicable disease. There is no internet connection in those communities. Presently world Bank, WHO and USAID has provided some support to community health service providers to do an intervention program for this disease such as TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDs. So there is high need for these community health provider to acquire skills that will bring the intervention alive to the global community. We conducted a community participatory appraisal on this project, by our evaluation this project is an essential need for our beneficiaries. There need capacity on citizen media.
Who else will be on your team to help implement the project?
Dominion Bassey:ng.linkedin.com/pub/dominion-bassey/1a/783/34b, https://www.facebook.com/dominion.bassey.3
1. Ben WIlliams: https://www.facebook.com/oshionameh?fref=ts
2. Christiana Ekpiken: https://www.facebook.com/Sexykwin?fref=ts
3. Joel Henshaw: https://www.facebook.com/joel.henshaw?fref=ts
4. Effiong Akaniyene: https://www.facebook.com/kokcy.uwa?fref=ts
5. Oten Eyo Ita
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
the participant will create
1. documentary films 1
2. blogger 3
3. facebook pages 30
5. linkin page 60
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established or plan to establish that will contribute to the success of the project.
My organization as established partnership with Association of movie producer of Nigeria, cross River agency for the control of Ais (SACA), Coalition of Grass Root NGO.
How many participants do you think will be trained in your project?
The Pilot project will be 60 participant. Technically we shall established major linkage with governmental and private institutions. Like micro-finance Banks For financial sustainable, beyond the fact that Oten Ita foundation has her organizational financial sustainability plan which include, income generated from our fish farm, continental farm, mushroom farm, Psalm schools and donation from trustee and member of the public. We shall also established strategic public private partnership with international and private donors through submitting our project activity report of this project. We ensure that the project is visible to private donor by creating a blogger update, and other social network. we have permanent office space and four liaison offices in project areas, with strong passion
Describe which technologies, tools, and media you will focus on when training participants.
We have trained staff and team that will implement this project. we will trained our participant on video/photo camera handling, script writing, video editing and the art of film production. This is very necessary for reporting project. we will show them how how to work with java and other social media tools
Describe the facilities where you will hold the workshops.
1. 4 digital camera
2. one professional camera
3. 10 laptops
4. 4 desk tops
5. 1 projector
6. flip chart
What is your current relationship with the community with whom you plan to work? What makes you the most appropriate individual or organization to implement this project?
we Have our liaison office in our target community
We hope to expand this project by establishing a social media institute in the community. So that we CAn trained more person
What specific challenges do you expect to face when planning and implementing your project?
there is no challenge at all, except for any unexpected climate change which its possible is below o.1%
How will you measure and evaluate the project’s impact, specifically: your primary participants, the wider regional community, or the global digital community?
Oten Ita foundation has an existing policy for monitoring and evaluating of her projects. All projects implemented by the organisation shall be evaluated periodically. The tools used for this evaluation will include;
1. Questionnaires,
2. Field interviews
The project monitoring and evaluation shall be carried out before and after the conclusion of activities. Specific evaluation shall be carried out by the Monitoring and evaluation officer (M&E officer) and the result for this process shall be used to measure the success of the project and then use has a model for other interventions.
for the primary participant the attendance sheet will be use and evaluation questionnaires
for the global communities we will measure by the number of traffic that we have on our page.
If your project were to be selected as a Rising Voices grantee, what would be the general timeline of project activities in 2014?
activities time line
1. training workshop …….. 1 month
2. development of Blogger/documentary 1 Month
3. Report 1 week
Detail a specific budget of up to $2,500 USD for operating costs.
support budget of the project
workshop cost ….. $1,500
Travels …………….$500
Internet access $300
Total $ 2300
Besides the microgrant funding, what other support can Rising Voices provide for your project to ensure its success?
you can provide us with some of the equipment like
1. 2 Cannon Mac 3 camera
2. 4 kinoflo light
3. 2 red head light
4. tripod and Dolley
5. laptop and desktop
Contact name
Dominion Bassey
Organization
Oten Ita Foundation/ Citizen Films and Art Institute
