IDS – FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS: IDS is committed to lifesaving intervention through capacity building and provision of food assistance to vulnerable families, especially those affected by humanitarian emergencies in Africa with intervention focused on.

1. FOOD AND NUTRITION ACTIVITIES: IDS  meets the food and nutrition assistance needs of vulnerable groups and has reached over one million Internally Displaced Persons (DPs), Returnees and Host communities population in Nigeria through general food distributions (GFD) and nutrition activities adopting SCOPE as a strategy to manage specific project activities such as beneficiary registration, food and nutrition distribution and secure financial transfer in a reliable, scalable, and flexible manner.
2. AGRICULTURAL EMPOWERMENT: IDS promote crops and livestock production through capacity strengthening and empowerment of smallholder farmers and their associations (Agricultural Cooperatives) to enhance access to agricultural resources and extension services to boost productivity and profitability for food security, address the issue of malnutrition and poverty alleviation by increasing access to Agricultural input (improved seeds/live-stocks, tractors, fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, water pumps, sprayers etc.). IDS is committed to providing market access, financial linkages services and technological innovations such as digital payment and information services to vulnerable beneficiaries. Over 50,000 households have so far benefited from the IDS Agro-based intervention across Borno, Nasarawa, Adamawa and Benue States, Nigeria.
3.  LIVELIHOODS INTERVENTION: This is one of the major strategies adopted by IDS to build resilience for the marginalized groups with activities focused on vocational skills training, and family business scheme (FBS) empowerment, entrepreneurship training and village saving scheme/revolving credits. Other areas of IDS Livelihoods empowerment include the provision of conditional cash transfer (CCT) and distribution of food items (FI) and non-food items (NFI) to vulnerable populations impacted by insurgency and other natural disasters in Africa.  IDS established a factory (Vocational Skills Center) where we train and produced reusable sanitary pads (RSP), cloths, facemasks, detergent and cosmetics, bakery, and Agricultural productive value chain in Nigeria.

IDS – EDUCATION IN EMERGENCY (EIE) INTERVENTION: IDS is committed to ensuring “No Child Left Behind” by promoting marginalized children’s rights to quality education, especially those affected by Humanitarian emergencies and has established 54 temporary learning spaces (TLS) to promote internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, host community and local population children’s access to quality education with over 35,0000 recorded leaners in attendance from 2017 to date across northeast Nigeria. IDS have also renovated and furnished 20 public schools destroyed by insurgency and trained over 5,000 community-based volunteer teachers and public-school teachers to provide quality education with mental health and psychosocial Services (MHPSS) to traumatized children in emergencies.

IDS – CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: IDS is committed to assisting communities to consider possible ways to address anticipated current and future threats resulting from the changing climate and have embarked on advocacy to promote Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate–Smart Agriculture (EPIC) IDS also engage in campaign activities, capacity building and empowerment of community stakeholders on systems that promote green and climate-resilient practices.

IDS – CONFLICTS RESOLUTION AND PEACE-BUILDING: IDS intervention involve prevention and countering of violent extremism (P/CVE): Awareness creation, Advocacy programs, capacity building and empowerment of women and youth leaders and their organizations to promote peaceful coexistence to mediate and provide psycho-social support services in the upsurge of conflicts in their communities.

IDS – CHILD PROTECTION AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV): IDS intervention encompasses case management ranging from child abuse, harmful child labour, a child exposed to domestic violence, neglect, a child with special needs (chronic health), mental health needs, vulnerable caregivers, child’s parents who were killed as a result of the insurgency and other concerns. Other activities under protection include Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) for un-accompanying children, Mental Health and Psycho-Social Support Services (MHPSS), and provision of Community Based Care (CBC) to safeguard children in a humanitarian emergency. IDS also provides livelihood support opportunities to parents, guardians and caregivers to promote vulnerable children’s wellbeing. IDS works on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) by addressing the issue of Violence Against Women/Girls (VAW/G) in Africa through awareness creation, community advocacy and capacity strengthening of the demand and supply-side actors to increase pressure on the justice sector institutions to ensure proper documentation of VAW/G cases facilitates timely arrest and prosecution of gender-based violence perpetrators in the society. IDS has also established violence against women/girls’ telephone helplines (0818 8999 936-Abuja & 081727002242-Maiduguri) where victims and their associates are provided with free advice and guidance to access justice.

IDS – WASH AND HEALTH CARE SERVICES:IDS intervention focuses on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through advocacy, capacity building, awareness creation and provision of counselling services on HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) targeting vulnerable women, youth, children, other minority groups and communities in Africa. IDS promotes Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) and has developed a Reusable Sanitary Pad (RSP), an innovation that uses safe and readily available materials in the local market for women/girls in a humanitarian emergency to manage their menses in privacy, safety, with respect and dignity. Unlike disposable sanitary pads, IDS reusable sanitary pads (RSP) are made from eco-friendly cloths, free of chemicals, last for up to 2 years, and are cost-effective and healthier than disposable pads. RSP is aimed at helping vulnerable women/girls to have a reliable and sustainable solution to their menstrual worries, avoid infections, exploitation, shame, and low self-esteem, and remain in school. IDS responds to COVID-19 includes the production and distribution and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as Reusable Face Mask (RFM), soaps, and hand sanitizers and promoting risk communication to prevent and contain the coronavirus pandemic in Africa.