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Advocacy Events take off in Kaiama and Amassoma

 
The women and youth in Kaiama and Amassoma are organising to improve lives in their communities. 
 
In Amassoma,  the women's advocacy group hosted a “One Day Sensitization Workshop on Women’s Participation in Community Governance.” Over 150 women came to learn from seasoned politicians, like Deacon Elizabeth Bidei – the immediate past government representative for Southern Ijaw LGA.  Excited about what they had learned, the participants developed a communique advocating for an increase in women's political participation.
 

Rebuilding Communities in Bayelsa State

In the Niger Delta, many communities are still reeling from the legacy of the armed struggle. Tomorrow is a New Day, is sensitive to this and seeks to show the power of peace dividends.
 
The project’s Solidarity Events were designed to improve conditions in the community –physically, through development activities, and emotionally, by encouraging widespread participation in the activity to foster cohesion in the community. Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) just hosted two such Solidarity Events in Bayelsa State.
 

Bayelsa Communities Seek Relief

 
Flooding is rapidly destroying properties and farmlands worth billions of Naira in the Niger Delta. Worst affected is Bayelsa State, home of two Tomorrow is a New Day communities, Amassoma and Kaiama.  The flood, popularly referred to as “FloodMania” by members of the Bayelsa State Virtual Government Town Hall on Facebook, has been devastating for residents.
 

Koko Meets Amasssoma

Last week, the Local Project Committee (LPC) of Koko travelled to Bayelsa State to meet with the LPC of Amassoma. This was Tomorrow is a New Day’s second Mutual Exchange Visit.
 
Between the 17th and 21st September, 2012 the two groups shared their experiences with the project and ideas about improving their communities.
 
One member of the Amassoma LPC, Boboyi Ozogu, said he was “impressed that the same thing is being taught in all the TND communities and that it all has the same objective [peace] in all the TND communities.”

Solidarity and Development

Local Project Committees (LPCs) in Oporoza and Amassoma have begun to plan high-visibility collaborative undertakings designed to build reconcilliation in communities. 
 
Referred to as “Solidarity Events,” these are local projects aimed at providing concrete experience of cooperation among different target groups.
 

Media Update - July 6, 2012

In this week's TND Media Update: 

  • Joint Task Force Arrests Militant Leader
  • Niger Deltans Deserve Equity Shares from Oil Firms
  • N6TN Saved Through Amnesty in 2001

 

Recent Media Updates

Once a week, the Tomorrow Is A New Day Team summarises recent events in the region in a PDF Format.  Please see our last four editions, and watch this space for weekly updates in the future.

'The Dawn': Our Monthly Newsletter Issue 1

Read our monthly newsletter, 'The Dawn', for June 2012:  
 

IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Welcome to The Dawn
  • An Introduction to the Project Communities
  • An Overview of the Baseline Assessment Findings
  • Partner Spotlight: An Introduction to ARDA 
  • Sweet Motherland and Media for Peace building

Sweet Motherland Radio Drama

A radio drama series in pidgin English

It recounts the story of people living in the Niger Delta and the challenges that their communities face. These challenges range from issues of unemployment, to environmental degradation and inter-communal clashes. The radio series is produced by ARDA.

Audio Episodes: 

Voices from the Delta

How do you take a community’s temperature?

Communities have a pulse, but not a forehead or a mouth where one can insert a thermometer to get a sense of its inner workings and diagnose its malaise.
 
The Tomorrow is a New Day project relied on a baseline analysis to perform this function. It was an important opportunity to hear the voices of members of the target communities.
 
It was also a chance for SFCG to introduce people to our participatory methods.  
 

Practice Makes Perfect

A Recap of the Conflict Transformation Training-of-Trainers May 21-25, 2012

When was the last time that you let someone lead you around a room with your eyes closed?  It may have been a while, but if you’re a peace practitioner, you’ve likely participated in a similar exercise meant to encourage trust-building and show the importance of good communication and leadership.
 
This is one of the exercises that the 24 participants gathered for the Conflict Transformation Training of Trainers (ToT) enjoyed most.
 

Local Project Committees

Community ownership is a key feature of Tomorrow is a New Day’s project design.

Thus, from the very beginning, structures are being created to ensure the sustainability of the project. In each of the seven communities, a Local Project Committee, or LPC, will be established.
 

Seven Target Communities

Each community has been targeted because they are “trend setting communities” that exert strong influence on conflict dynamics in neighbouring areas.
 

Tomorrow is a New Day Baseline Study

A baseline study was conducted in all seven communities.

The goal of the baseline was to collect data that would provide insight into the conflict dynamics of each community.
The baseline was conducted using an integrated -methods approach including 1523 baseline surveys, 23 focus group discussions (FGDs), and 19 key information interviews (KIIs).

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