COOPI is implementing projects in Yobe covering General Food Distribution (GFD), Cash Based Transfers (CBT), Nutrition, Agriculture, Livestock, Income Generating Activities, Natural Resources Management with support from World Food Programme in Nigeria.

The main objective of the WFP supported projects are to ensure people are better able to meet their urgent food and nutritional needs. The projects provide food or cash assistance to meet the basic food and nutrition needs of targeted populations, and contribute towards restoring livelihoods and food security of affected communities through the gradual introduction of early recovery livelihoods activities to support women and youths in building skills and increase income for self-reliance.

COOPI supports IDPs, farmers and shepherds, potential entrepreneurs and rural communities with a focus on women, young returnees and vulnerable individuals through:

• Food distribution: Delivering food basket items to meet the basic food and nutritional needs of vulnerable groups;
• Cash Based Transfers: Providing cash transfers to households at risk of food insecurity so as to enable them meet their minimum food requirements with the dignity of choice;
• Agriculture: Institutional capacity development, adoption of improved agronomic practices, provision of market access opportunities, seeds and farm inputs supplies to farmers;
• Income generating activities (IGA): The project enhances innovative, profitable, and sustainable income generating small businesses through provision of start-up capital / kits and vocational skill strengthening trainings to vulnerable youth groups and women headed households and enhance market linkages for self-reliance;
• Livelihoods: The project contribute to improving equitable access to critical services in a timely manner in the arear of Crop and Livestock production, Natural Resource Management, Infrastructure Development whilst contributing to the restoration of critical agricultural assets and services.

COOPI is going to implement Child Protection activities in Sokoto State with support from USAID/BHA focusing on:

• Child Protection Monitoring;
• Provision of training and specialised child protection case management services;
• Support community-based child protection committees;
• Establishment of Child Friendly safe Spaces (CFS) to provide children with protective space to gather, play and learn but also to ensure that the vulnerable children are identified, assisted and monitored by trained Community Social Workers (CSWs)/Animators and PSS (Psychosocial Support) Counselors;
• Psycho-social support including Structured Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) activities within Child friendly Space for boys and girls (5-17 years);
• Group counseling sessions with foster parents/caregivers;
• Support Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) of separated and unaccompanied children through referral and case management;
• Placement of children affected by protection risk (Unaccompanied and Separated Children - UASC) into appropriate community-based alternative care;
• Targeted Individual Assistance: Emergency Case Management Fund to provide immediate assistance to high priority cases (e.g. children in need of emergency health assistance, including Sexual and Gender Based Violence - SGBV, legal representation);
• Access to justice/ Referrals/ Civil Documentation;
• Protection mainstreaming (training and support for Action Plans).

COOPI is going to provide Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) intervention to meet multiple needs at the household level which will support WASH, Health, Food, and Nutrition. Particular attention will be given to the people who are newly displaced and those who are in the IDP camps. MPCA will also help to bridge the gap and reduce exposure to high-risk behaviors. Priority will be given to targeting lactating mothers, persons with disabilities, and female-headed households with malnourished children using the random sampling method. Cash disbursement will be done monthly using microfinance banks via smart cards/ATMs. Activities under this project include:

• Community entry activities and working with local government and key actors in targeting and verification;
• Rapid market assessment to provide a snapshot of how key markets operate, to support an initial decision on the feasibility of response options (cash vs. in-kind, initial market support) based on market functionality, access to the market, and any potential risk that may impact effectiveness of the modality during implementation.
• Training of Community-Based Targeting Committee (CBTC) on identification, profiling, and registration of Poor and Vulnerable Households (PVHH) within the IDP camps and host communities.
• Contracting the Multipurpose cash transfer delivery service provider;
• Provision of multipurpose cash to conflict-affected IDPs.
• Market price monitoring;
• Post Distribution Monitoring.