Intended Prospective Projects

These are pilot projects awaiting collaboration, partnership, funding for implementation. Interested in supporting any of the projects please reach out to contact@networkaid.org

Pro-Poor Microfinance Project
Adult & Functional Literacy Skills
Family Connect
Art It Out

Pro-Poor Interest Microfinance

Access to finance is a major challenge for persons with disability, and women especially disadvantaged and illiterate women and single mothers with no collateral yet engage in domestic helper work, private security, business or trade that supports the family's wellbeing and children's school fees, school charges, school materials ( uniform, shoes, lunch, bags, sucks, panties, vests) and household utilities. To contribute to addressing these challenges and fostering a healthy and safer family, the pro-poor interest microfinance aimed at targeting 4800 women as direct program participants with an average family size of 5 with a seed amount of a minimum of 100$ to 250$ to 500$ which is a revolving fund. Trainings on financial literacy, gender, human rights, mentoring and setting them up as cooperative, linked to other financial institutions is core to the project implementation. The project is to create wealth, and sustainable sustenance for the family of 24000. The project will be implemented for four (4) years with a cost of 800,000$ To support this project implementation click here

Adult & Functional Literacy Skills

With a literacy rate of 87.1% worldwide in 2022 (17% illiterate), 72% in Africa, … Asia, 90% in MENA, and 17% in Sub-Sub-Sahara Africa. 79% of literate women globally and 59.4% of women measured as literate are in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is obvious embarking on adult literacy and functional skills to increase literacy rate and functional skills among illiterate women, persons with a disability whose literacy rate is 3% globally with 1% women. With this pilot project, 320 illiterate women and persons with disability will be directly targeted for 12 months in two cycles. Apart from the adult literacy classes and functional skills to enable program participants to read, write and communicate in English and equipped with employable skills, other life skills and empowerment activities will be rolled out. 270,000$ is required for the implementation of this project except for tools and equipment. To fund this project reach us here

Family Connect

Given the criticality of socialization and the role of mother, father, aunty and uncle in the family where children are raised with family norms, religion, culture and values. It is essential to place the family at the center of addressing gender-based violence, sexual reproductive health, human rights, drug abuse, parenting, and legal frameworks. The United Nations Gender Education Initiative ‘UNGEI” is piloting the Gender at the Centre initiative on school-related gender-based violence in eight countries inclusive of Sierra Leone. There are other gender and women-related projects implemented that have contributed to empowering individuals but not as a family. The family connect will leverage these gains and connect the family members perfectly as a unit in addressing the gaps. This 18 months pilot project is directly targeting 1000 project participants of 200 families (an average of five persons per family) with an indirect project participants of 800 (an average of 4 per family). 200,000$ fund is needed for implementation. To support this project please get in touch here

Art It Out

In school: creative practical art (drawing, singing, acting) are essential aspect of talent development and expression of feelings and desire. The Art It Out project is going to explore the beauty of art in storytelling, events, prospects, and incidents across all divides. 2000 artistry work will be done across. Sculpture as a memoir will be raised. Drawing, animation, singing, poetry, sculpture, filming, and storytelling are used as healing therapy, visionary projection of the community we want. Art has been used in the transitional justice process in conflict, in economic, in politic, in education, and socially changed countries. Sierra Leone has been a case study through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-National Vision for Sierra Leone project. At TED, renowned personalities emphasized the beautiful role of art in democracy. Part of the national vision for Sierra Leone art and fresh artwork will form part of the project implementation. The artistry gathered will be documented and presented to the Ministry responsible for culture, entertainment, education, development, information, communication. Civic education, human rights, documentaries films etc. will be broadcast in communities and public outlets films The pilot project duration is twelve (12) months with a total cost of 50000$. To fund this project, click here

Keeping Our Community Safe
Girls Link Initiative through Sport
My Hands Are Clean Campaign
On the Wheel

Keep Our Community Safe

Keep Our Community Safe is twelve months pilot non-violence and peace-keeping, disaster consciousness, climate-resilient, road safety project aimed at solidifying community cohesion and strengthening community redress and response mechanisms to reduce crime (rape, battering, neighborhoods conflict, drug abuse, disaster, accident), tree planting, and road safety awareness. Training in non-violence, alternative dispute and redress mechanisms, sports, quizzes, and meetings will form part of the activities. 16 communities will be targeted with 1600 direct project participants and 6400 indirect project participants. An amount of 200,000$ is required for the implementation of this project for 2 years. For details and to support click here.

Girls Link Initiative through Sport

On the 10^th December 2022 on the climax of the sixteen days of activism which happened to be international human rights day the Community of Practices - a community of fifty plus (50+) organisations through Network AID leadership facilitated the female comic football match for adolescent girls at the Hill Top Community for the first time to raised awareness on the issues of rape, teenage pregnancy, domestic violence encountered by adolescent girls and women including lads while fetching waters from fenced houses, streams, and isolated water-ways. Seeing the smiles and prospect of the girls playing football and their plea the need for an initiative was born to continue to engage through sport. Thirty-two girls played and their parents were summoned to a meeting about an initiative that contributes to the well-being of the girls. It was agreed that a Girls Link Initiative through Sport is formed. Sports have been proven to commute people from similar and diverse backgrounds together is a useful tool. The Girl's Link Initiative is aimed at utilizing sports and games to enhance peace, raise awareness, foster community development, and contribute to addressing sexual and gender-based violence, providing litres milla water tanks at strategic locations with the Hill Top Community and the Hill Top Community School that host 900 pupils without any WASH facility. The Hill Top Community has approximately 10000 inhabitants. As a pilot initiative for twelve (12) months, the items required are ten 10000 liters milla water tanks; four soccer balls, four team jerseys kits, sixty-four footwear, four whistles, and cones. A project implementation cost of 156,000$ is needed for implementation. To get details of the project click here.

My Hands Are Clean Campaign

My Hands Are Clean is an ongoing self-launched on the 16^th of June 2023; it’s a campaign to raise awareness in reducing gender-based violence in public and private institutions and organizations by getting the commitment from institutions and individuals to take action as individuals and institutions against all forms of gender-based violence including political, structural and electoral. The campaign is soliciting funds to implement its activities (community meetings, rallies, radio and television talk shows, strategic meetings, commitment signing, training, IEC, and International Day commemorations). The campaign seeks to make gender-based violence unpopular by getting men to support the campaign cause and amplifying women's and girls' voices in a healthy, corrupt-free environment. The campaign needs digital editing studios, video recorders, video editing software, microphones, and laptops. Other activities to strengthen the campaign will be done. This campaign will be implemented for four (4) years with 5000 direct project participants. 250,000$ is require as funding. To fund, partner or collaborate click here.

On the Wheel

The global economy is grappling with persistent inflation, increasing interest rates and heightened uncertainties. Global real GDP per capita increased at an average annual rate of 1.8 per cent from 2015 to 2019, then sharply declined by 4.1 per cent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic (UN Stats Report 2023 on Goal 8). The global unemployment rate is 5.4% (192 million, 2022). The informal employment sector holds 58% of the space (WESOT 2024). Women and adolescent girls account for 740 million out of the 2 billion (Building Back Better for Women: Women’s Dire Position In The Informal Economy Report 2020) informal employment, and more can tap into it to increase their financial and security status in society. On The Wheel is geared towards challenging the patriarchal notion that women are unfit to be commercial transport commuters while boosting their family livelihood. 100 women and adolescents will be targeted directly and provided with one motor tricycle each. The project will be implemented for 36 months with 500 indirect beneficiaries. To implement this project 315,000$ is needed. Click here to fund and know more about this project.

Scholarship from the Back
Prestigious Illiterate Women Award
Governance at the End
Bridging the Speech Impairment Communication Gap

Scholarship from the Back

Without prejudice to scholarships awarded to pupils of good academic performance by individuals and organisations; scholarship from the back believes hypothetically no human being is born "stupid" “If it is so” scholarship from the back intends to implement the notion of awarding scholarships to the ten worse academic performed pupils “if they perform well", the factors delimiting the children's academic performance needs to be dealt with. The scholarship from the back will target 2000 in-and-out of school pupils by providing them with additional school learning materials and equipment (uniform, lunch, shoes, bags, etc.),tuition, tutors, and family engagement to boost their confidence and academic prowess with 2000 indirect family beneficiaries. The project will be implemented for five academic (5) with 180$ per child for the entire school term. A total funding The scholarship is seeking funding to support of 1,800,000$ for implementation. To support this project, click here

Prestigious Illiterate Women Award

Over the world, awards and recognitions are provided to people and institutions for their contributions to a particular field, profession, cause or act of bravery. However, the contributions, and efforts of illiterate women towards societal development, and makers of personalities are yet to be recognized by providing them with symbolic awards. The prestigious Illiterate Women Award seeks to provide recognition of their contributions towards their home, family, community and society thereby contributing in amplifying and restoring women dignity and contributions in society, motivating others to follow and encourages other to do more, serve as change makers. 50 women will be awarded and recognise including institutions that support illiterate women with the top ten awardees awarded with project funds of 2000$. Call for nominations and searching for these women will be open bi-annually and criteria developed for either long listing or shortlisting with an award committee set up to oversee the process. We are open for sponsorship and funding. Please click here to reach out.

Governance at the End

Local Governance Authorities (local and city councils) and Traditional Governance Authorities (headmen, tribal heads, chiefdom councils) have been playing a significant role in ensuring peaceful cohesion and community development within their jurisdiction, however, the capacity gap concerning the linkages of their legal framework and other legal frameworks, conflicting roles, cultural norms, lack of equipment, training, and gender disparity are limiting factors impede governance at the local level. This project seeks to strengthen this lower cadre of governance architecture- chiefdom councils, word development committees, village development committees, and community leadership structures by conducting training in the relevant legal frameworks, administrative processes and procedures, development plans development, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and filing, gender, diversity and human rights. Training on understanding the governance connection from the local to the district to the region to the national. Provides office equipment and tools to facilitate their work and increase performance and accountability. The project duration is intended for four (4) years with a total of direct institutional beneficiaries of four (4000) thousand. An estimate of 350,000$ is needed for the implementation of the project. Potential funders please click here to get in touch.

Bridging the Speech Impairment Communication Gap

Leave No One Behind is the core value of the seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals. The communication challenge between speech impairment person and non-speech impairment is wide. It continues to pose distress among citizens, family members of speech impairment persons, and community members between each other to communicate. Bridging the Speech Impairment Communication Gap project aimed at training 10000 project participants on sign language including families of speech impairment, organisations and public institutions and support with assistive devices. The project is slated for five (5) years duration. An estimate of 500,000$ is required for the implementation of this project. Wish to fund this project click here.

We Are Mothers
My Mental Health-Let's Talk
My Legal Identity! My Responsibility

We Are Mothers

In line with the health and safety programme that focuses on awareness raising, advocacy, policy reform, and provision service delivery, this project intends to contribute to the health and well-being of women related to their sexual reproductive health, mental health, and cancer by raising awareness and providing clinical screening support for 50000 women, assorted medications and clinical equipment for eight (8) clinics with an estimate of 170000$, construction and rehabilitation of eight (8) clinics with an estimate of 300000$ each. One of the three objectives of the study was to “Issuing a call to action for all organizations working to improve the lives of women and girls worldwide, urging them to integrate mental health support into their work” which Network AID is obliged to.

Women and Girls: Empowerment through Mental Health Report “Women experience more stressors simply by being women in the world today. 90% of practitioners surveyed agree. Mental health is foundational to women’s empowerment. 97% of practitioners agree that investing in mental health improves the sustainability of empowerment outcomes. Not enough is being done. 61% of practitioners agree that mental health is not adequately integrated into gender equality and empowerment work. Funding is the largest barrier to progress. 82% of gender organizations don’t receive any funding for mental health work, despite this, 55% of organizations now integrate mental health”.

Key facts from World Health Organisation, state every day in 2020, almost 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. A maternal death occurred almost every two minutes in 2020. Between 2000 and 2020, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR, number of maternal deaths per 100, 000 live births) dropped by about 34% worldwide. Almost 95% of all maternal deaths occurred in low and lower-middle-income countries in 2020. Care by skilled health professionals before, during and after childbirth can save the lives of women and newborns. Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia accounted for around 87% (253,000) of the estimated global maternal deaths in 2020. Sub-Saharan Africa alone accounted for around 70% of maternal deaths (202,000), while Southern Asia accounted for around 16% (47,000).

World Family Planning 2020 Highlights, mentioned, globally, the proportion of women of reproductive age who have their need for family planning satisfied by use of modern methods, indicator 3.7.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has increased from 73.6 per cent in 2000 to 76.8 per cent in 2020. Relatively rapid increases in the use of modern contraceptive methods have occurred in Central and Southern Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Western Asia and Northern Africa. Still, only about half of all women who want to avoid pregnancy are using a modern method in Oceania excluding Australia and New Zealand (52.1%) and in sub-Saharan Africa (55.5%)

According to UNFPA Sierra Leone, the percentage of teenagers (15–19) who have given birth or are pregnant with their first child decreased from 28 per cent in 2013 to 21 per cent in 2019. Early childbearing is still common in Sierra Leone and in 2019, the median age at first birth among women aged 25–49 was 19.5 years. Twenty-five per cent of women and girls of reproductive age who want to plan their families do not have access to modern family planning services. The proportion of demand satisfied for family planning remains low at 46 per cent.

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My Mental Health - Let's Talk

The Global Mental Health Statistics Overview revealed 970 million people around the world struggle with some mental illness or drug abuse. 1 in 4 people will be affected by a mental illness at some point in their lives. 14.3% of deaths worldwide, or approximately 8 million deaths each year, are attributable to mental disorders. The prevalence of all mental disorders increased by 50% worldwide from 416 million to 615 million between 1990 and 2013. My Mental Health -Let’s Talk is a project idea to raise extensive awareness in institutions, communities, and families on non-clinical aspects of mental health and well-being issues among key populations (working class, students, families, and the informal sectors). Training, community meetings, policy dialogue and advocacy, digital media and commemoration of international events linked to mental health. 5000 direct beneficiaries will be targeted for 18 months with a project cost of 500,000$. We appreciate partnership and funding opportunities from any donor, philanthropist or foundation. Click here.

My Legal Identity! My Responsibility

People normally do not take their legal identity document (proof of legal identity or civil registration) seriously except when the dire need arises- academic entry, employment, social or health insurance benefits, travelling, election registration and voting, account opening, remittance withdrawal, driver license, national passport book and mobile number acquisition amongst. However, the citizens lack and have limited information on the importance of basic legal identity documents such as birth certificates, the difficulty with the availability, accessibility, and affordability of legal identity services within the reach of its citizens and other persons of interest (centralization of services), and the relevance of such legal identity documents are not far fetching bottle-necks. The United Nations Legal Identity Agenda, emphasises that “everyone has the right to be recognized as a person before the law, as enshrined in Article 6 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and Article 16 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Several International human rights instruments, such as Article 7 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 24(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also recognized a right to birth registration”. Sustainable Development Goal Target 16.9 ("legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030") is key to advancing the 2030 Agenda commitment to leave no one behind, and equally relevant is SDG 17.19 — support to statistical capacity-building in developing countries, monitored by the indicator "proportion of countries that have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration".

The United Nations Legal Identity Agenda Task Force, co-chaired by UNDP, UNDESA, and UNICEF, is working with Member States to ensure that more than 300 million people acquire a legal identity by 2025. According to MICS 2017 data, more than 19 per cent of children in Sierra Leone are not registered, and 28 per cent of children do not have a birth certificate.

In response to the legal identity for all, My Legal Identity! My Responsibility Project aimed to contribute towards the achievement of target 16.9 and goal 17.19 by implementing massive public awareness raising, information accessibility and availability, monitoring, policy advocacy and dialogue with all legal identity stakeholders. By the end of the five (5) years project, the project would contribute to 3,000.000 people registering vital events and securing various legal identity documents. The estimated project cost is 600,000$. To partner with and support this project click here

The Great Outdoors4

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The Great Outdoors

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