Our Vision
We envision a world where all people even in the most remote areas of the globe can have access needs of life.
Our Mission
To enhance service delivery and empower citizens.
About Us
Founded in 2018, CATAI has been on a mission to enhance service delivery through citizen empowerment. We also seek to promote a just society for all regions in Nigeria through advocacy, research, impact, and innovation by embarking on outreach and advocacy for institutional reforms, capacity building, and citizen empowerment. We strengthen local communities by creating platforms for dialogue, enabling informed debates, and building the capacity of citizens to act as catalysts for their societal issues through our innovations.
CATAI is committed to advocating and promoting quality education, especially for the girl child in marginalized communities, using technological means to enable children to acquire knowledge that will increase their productivity.
CATAI provides marginalized and vulnerable communities with resources to amplify their voices with independence and integrity while providing the communities with social, economic, and environmental progress to also enhance effective democratic governance, citizen participation, and civic engagement.
Our Core Values
- Integrity
- Commitment
- Partnership
- Result Based
- Sustainability
CATAI works to promote a just society for all regions in Nigeria through advocacy, research, impact, and innovation by embarking on outreach and advocacy for institutional reforms, capacity-building, and the empowerment of citizens.
CATAI has the vision to strengthen local communities by creating platforms for dialogue, enabling informed debate, and building the capacities of citizens with resources through humanitarian and developmental intervention to amplify their voices with independence and integrity while providing the communities with social, economic, and environmental progress.
Our thematic areas
With support from USAID & Creatives Nigeria Northeast Connection, CATAI implemented the project “Strengthening Youth Participation in Civic and Peacebuilding Spaces Through Knowledge Building and Community Organizing” in Hawul, Kwaya Kusar, and Shani LGA.
CATAI successfully strengthened the capacities of young people to develop demand charters and engaged with policymakers and decision-makers within the community level advocating for the participation of young people in the process of decision-making and addressing conflict issues within the various communities. Read more
As part of CATAI Commitment to enhance service delivery and empowering the marginalized
communities through our Continuity to learning in Emergency, Education cannot wait (ECW) a multi-year resilience project funded by UNICEF through a consortium of four (4) national NGOs of Restoration of Hope Initiative (ROHI), Grow Strong Foundation (GSF), Center for Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability Initiative (CATAI), and GOAL Prime Organization of Nigeria (GPoN)), was launched to strengthen the resilience of children affected by the insurgency in northeast. Read more
International Alert, in partnership with the Centre for Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability Initiative (CATAI), has worked for 10 months to implement the project – “Enhancing prevention and response services for child survivors of gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence and protection from sexual exploitation and abuse in north-east Nigeria,” with a component on the principles and practices of peacebuilding, including dialogue, inclusivity, conflict resolution, and gender sensitivity. Identifying and case-managing survivors of GBV and Income generating activities to case-managed beneficiaries, with a holistic approach toward providing service and access to affected populations in 3 LGAs of Borno State, with target sites in Jere: Fori host community and Fori IDP camp in Jere LGA, Bama: GSSS IDP camp Bama LGA and Gwoza: GSSS IDP camp Gwoza LGA. Read more
In Nigeria, young people between the ages of 18 to 35 constitute about 28% of the entire population and 51% of the registered voters. However, young people are primarily marginalized from governance and decision-making spaces. According to worsening statistics on low literacy levels, maternal mortality, gender-based violence, economic and financial exclusion, low-income levels, and limited access to land and natural resources, young women face multiple challenges. Furthermore, intersectional feminist analysis shows that discriminatory laws, patriarchy, cultural norms, and gender stereotypes contribute to structural inequalities faced by young women. Read more
As part of CATAI Commitment to enhance service delivery and empowering the marginalized communities through our Continuity to learning in Emergency, Education cannot wait (ECW) a multi-year resilience project funded by UNICEF through a consortium of four (4) national NGOs of Restoration of Hope Initiative (ROHI), Grow Strong Foundation (GSF), Center for Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability Initiative (CATAI), and GOAL Prime Organization of Nigeria (GPoN)), was launched to strengthen the resilience of children affected by the insurgency in northeast Nigeria through alternative means of learning using radio sets in the event of access loss due to other factors.