Our Work- Workstreams
Working to Build Peace and Stability
SPRiNG Programme’s Impact Across Nigeria
Since its inception in May 2024, SPRiNG has made meaningful strides toward a more peaceful and resilient Nigeria. With a minimum of 4,092 people directly benefiting from our activities, SPRiNG is already making a difference in regions most affected by conflict, inequality, and environmental stress.
Our work is driven by five key pillars, each targeting the systemic roots of instability while amplifying the voices and resilience of local communities.
Our Workstreams
SPRiNG focuses on addressing the root causes of conflict to promote long-term peace and stability in Nigeria. By tackling issues like security, social exclusion, and climate vulnerability, we work in partnership with local communities and institutions to create sustainable, transformative solutions. From strengthening institutions to empowering women and fostering cooperation between agricultural and pastoral communities, the programme is designed to promote peace and resilience in Nigeria.
Stories of Change
From climate innovation to policy influencing, these stories show how SPRiNG is contributing to building peace in Nigeria.
Explore our stories of change
Security, Peace, and Justice Institutions
We’re working together with formal and informal peacebuilding institutions to enhance their capacity to manage, respond to and support non-violent dispute resolution. SPRiNG supports:
By enhancing institutional capacity and trust, we’re helping communities respond more swiftly and peacefully to emerging conflicts.
Security, Peace, and Justice Institutions
We’re working together with formal and informal peacebuilding institutions to enhance their capacity to manage, respond to and support non-violent dispute resolution. SPRiNG supports:
By enhancing institutional capacity and trust, we’re helping communities respond more swiftly and peacefully to emerging conflicts.
Drugs, Weapons, Divisive Narratives, and Social Exclusion
Tackling the roots of violence
Instability is often fuelled by the unchecked spread of small arms, substance abuse, and narratives that divide. SPRiNG tackles these challenges by:
These efforts foster greater cohesion, reduce vulnerability to manipulation, and open pathways for constructive civic engagement.
Women, Peace, and Security (WPS)
Empowering women and girls as peacebuilders
Women are not just beneficiaries of peace they are drivers of it. SPRiNG champions gender equality and the protection of women through:
By centering women and girls in peacebuilding efforts, we’re building more inclusive and equitable communities.
Women, Peace, and Security (WPS)
Empowering women and girls as peacebuilders
Women are not just beneficiaries of peace they are drivers of it. SPRiNG champions gender equality and the protection of women through:
By centering women and girls in peacebuilding efforts, we’re building more inclusive and equitable communities.
Agricultural and Pastoral Practice
Fostering cooperation and climate resilience
Agricultural and pastoral communities face increasing pressure from competition over land and changing climate patterns:
The result: communities that work together instead of competing for survival.
Agricultural and Pastoral Practice
Fostering cooperation and climate resilience
Agricultural and pastoral communities face increasing pressure from competition over land and changing climate patterns:
The result: communities that work together instead of competing for survival.
Ecology and Natural Resource Management (NRM)
Protecting the environment, securing the future
SPRiNG’s ecology and natural resource management work focuses on:
With these efforts, SPRiNG is enabling long-term environmental resilience and reducing resource-based tensions.
Looking Ahead
SPRiNG’s impact is measured not just in numbers, but in the stories of individuals and communities gaining strength, confidence, and hope. By addressing conflict challenges through locally led, evidence-based action, we are contributing for a more stable, inclusive and peaceful Nigeria.
Our Impact
Locations
Head Office: SPRiNG head office in Abuja
Regional Offices: Katsina and Jos
SPRiNG has four focal states – Kaduna, Katsina, Benue and Plateau – where the programme will have a strong but not exclusive focus. The SPRiNG programme will also work in other states in North Central and North West Nigeria as well as neighbouring states in the North East and southern Nigeria affected by or at risk of spillover effects from farmer-herder conflicts and rural banditry.
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