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Community development · Established in Nigeria

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the FCT, help arrives every year.
Almost none of it is counted.

We work alongside government, communities and development partners to reach households that existing systems miss — and to keep a record of what actually arrived, in a country where much of it is never measured at all.

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We do not replace what already works.
We stand beside it.

Titita Empowerment Foundation moves help to where it is most needed, with government institutions, community-based organisations, corporate partners and other development actors — and makes the delivery verifiable afterwards. Our position is deliberate: in Nasarawa alone nine organisations already operate, so the useful contribution is reach and record, not another parallel structure.

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Where we work

We work in the Federal Capital Territory, Borno, Nasarawa, Lagos and Jos in Plateau State. Nasarawa is where we are building a long-term programme. The section that follows sets it beside four other states: the FCT, Borno, Sokoto and Bayelsa.

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Spotlight · Five states

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Multidimensionally poor

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The evidence, and the gaps in it

Nigeria runs some of the most respected household surveys on the continent. Few of them publish figures below the national or zonal level. Below is how five states compare on the figures that are published, followed by an honest account of what nobody has measured for Nasarawa.

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Proportions are shown as rings because each is genuinely a part of one whole. Unrelated indicators are compared below as bars instead — a ring cannot honestly compare a malaria rate with an unemployment rate, and a funder will notice if it tries.

Five states against the national picture

Choose a state to read its figures. The dashed line marks Nigeria.

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All figures: National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 (MPIS 2021/22). Food insecurity and unsafe water show the share of residents who are both multidimensionally poor and deprived in that indicator. Survey teams could not reach 14 of Borno’s 27 local governments, so Borno’s figures are not statistically representative.

Nasarawa in the national statistics: what is published and what is missing

Data availability ledger · 12 indicators

Of the twelve indicators funders most often ask for, six have a published Nasarawa figure, three are published only in part, and three have no state figure at all. Select a status to isolate it, or choose any indicator to see its source and what that source does and does not report.

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Each gap has a specific cause. The 2023–24 DHS state report, now released, gives no maternal mortality ratio. NAIIS did not publish state tables. Cadre Harmonisé gives no food-insecurity count for Nasarawa, and the WASHNORM zonal breakdown cannot be retrieved. The 2022 Multidimensional Poverty Index publishes Nasarawa’s poverty and out-of-school rates, but for food, water and immunisation it reports only the share of residents who are both poor and deprived. Funders ask for a state baseline at the first meeting, and the national surveys cannot yet supply a complete one. A verifiable Nasarawa baseline is therefore the most useful asset a programme in the state can build.

From our record

Seven outreaches across two years, in two states and the Federal Capital Territory, every one completed. This is the entire register rather than a selection — a short history is only a weakness when an organisation dresses it up. The labels below are the categories each activity was filed under at the time, left exactly as recorded; the programme areas further down show where the work now leads.

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Titita Empowerment Foundation Nigeria

Programme in focus · Adolescent life skills

Unfiltered 2.5: guiding young minds through change and choice

Report by Ihesiulo Grace Amarachi, Daily Times Nigeria

Participants, mentors and facilitators of Unfiltered 2.5
Participants, mentors and facilitators, Unfiltered 2.5

Titita Empowerment Foundation sponsored this year’s Unfiltered 2.5, “Let’s talk sex, self-control and the power of the mind”. The series is run by Nküzhi Learning Foundation, which has organised workshops and camps for teenagers and young adults since 2016, and was delivered with Bridge-Edge Consultancy and Legacies Ltd. Students, mentors and facilitators met in a safe, interactive space for candid discussion, grounded in both faith and science.

What participants did

  1. Guided visualisation. Students imagined themselves five years ahead and the choices that led them there.
  2. Personal Challenge Cards. Each wrote down one boundary or commitment they were ready to make.
  3. Affirmation Circle. Participants declared statements such as “I have the power to…” and “I am choosing to…”
  4. The 3 Cs. Chances, Choices and Consequences: opportunities come to everyone; choices decide the outcome.

Respect, confidentiality and non-judgment were the ground rules. Many students arrived unsure or hesitant; for most, the biggest takeaway was that they were not alone.

“Your mind is the control center of your life. Whatever you master here, you master in your future.”

Dr. (Mrs.) Oluwatoyin Elizabeth AbayomiLead facilitator
Mrs. Ijeoma Uwakwe Okoronkwo addressing participants
Mrs. Ijeoma Uwakwe Okoronkwo, founder of Nküzhi Learning Foundation
A facilitator speaking to students
A mentor leading a session with students
Facilitators beside the Nküzhi Learning Foundation banner

Source: “Unfiltered 2.5: Guiding Young Minds Through Change and Choice”, report by Ihesiulo Grace Amarachi, Deputy Editor and State House Correspondent, Daily Times Nigeria. Photographs from the event.

Titita Empowerment Foundation Borno State, Nigeria

Field report · Flood response

Titita Empowerment Foundation brings flood relief to displaced families in Borno

Excerpts culled from OCHA, IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix and Borno State Government reporting

Women carrying Titita Flood Relief blanket packs across a distribution ground
Blanket distribution at a relocation site, Borno State

On the night of 9 September 2024, after weeks of heavy rain across Bama, Damboa and Gwoza, the Alau Dam in Konduga local government overflowed and gave way. Within hours its water was moving through Maiduguri and Jere. It was the first time the dam had overflowed since 2012, and residents compared it with the flood of 1994.

By 15 September, OCHA counted more than 414,000 people affected across the state. Over 300,000 had registered at 30 temporary relocation sites, many of them schools, and some 700,000 more had moved in with relatives. The state government later assessed 85,000 homes as damaged across 19 wards of Greater Maiduguri.

A city cut in two

The Lagos Street and Gwange bridges partly collapsed. The Muna camp, already home to about 57,000 people displaced by the insurgency, was cut off from the city, its markets and its services. Telephone and electricity networks went down in several districts, and access to hospitals and markets stayed limited for days.

Most of the people the water reached had been displaced before. Borno has carried a decade of conflict, and many families were living in camps that sit on low ground. For them the flood was a second loss of shelter, food stores and documents.

Where the Foundation came in

By early October the water had receded in Maiduguri and Jere, and the number of people in emergency shelters had fallen from a peak of around 400,000 to about 50,000. Those whose homes were still submerged were moved to larger consolidated sites. On 5 May 2025, Titita Empowerment Foundation delivered relief support to households in Borno who were still displaced by the flooding.

The same river-driven risk runs through Nasarawa. The Benue floodplain local governments rise every season, and NEMA chose Nasarawa to launch the 2025 national flood response campaign. Borno is the reason the Foundation’s climate programme is built around early action rather than relief alone.

The flood in figures

414,000 people affected across Borno State OCHA flash update 2 · 15 Sep 2024
300,000+ registered in 30 relocation sites Borno State EOC via OCHA · 15 Sep 2024
85,000 homes damaged in 19 wards of Greater Maiduguri Borno State Government via OCHA · Oct 2024
138 locations assessed for flood impact and displacement, 4–12 September IOM DTM situation report 1 · 13 Sep 2024

“Sustained assistance is critical to save lives, restore livelihoods and to rebuild vital infrastructure.”

UN OCHANigeria situation report, 7 October 2024
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Children receiving blanket packs
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A Foundation volunteer hands out blanket packs

Sources: OCHA, Nigeria Floods Flash Update 2, 15 September 2024; OCHA, Nigeria Situation Report, 7 October 2024; IOM DTM, Nigeria Flood Situation Report 1, Borno State, 13 September 2024. Casualty figures rose as reporting continued; this page uses only the figures named above. Photographs from the Foundation’s relief intervention.

Programme areas

Six programme areas, set to the services that government and its funders now pay for, each anchored to a published figure rather than an intuition. Where the figure is national or zonal because no Nasarawa figure exists, it is labelled as such. The public financing named under each area implies no relationship with Titita Empowerment Foundation, and no body named has been approached. These are the areas our programme is being built in. What we have completed so far is in the record above, unaltered, and nothing here should be read as a claim to more.

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A record made where the help changes hands.

The reason so little is known about who received what in rural Nigeria is not indifference. It is that establishing who a person is, and what they were actually given, has always cost more than the help itself.

Titita Empowerment Foundation intends to work with a verification approach — licensed from its owner, not built or owned by the Foundation — under which a distribution or payment is recorded at the moment it happens, on a handset, without a network, and cannot be quietly revised afterwards.

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We do not intend to rebuild what already exists nationally. Several organisations operate across the states already, and the honest first move is to stand beside them rather than beside their funding.

Organisations already working in Nasarawa State

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About the organisation

Titita Empowerment Foundation

Titita Empowerment Foundation is a Nigerian charity registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission under the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, and with the Special Control Unit against Money Laundering. It is a community development organisation that works alongside government and other partners.

The Foundation is non-partisan. It does not campaign for, fund or favour any political party or candidate, and it will confirm this in writing to any partner who asks.

Legal name
Titita Empowerment Foundation
Registration
IT Number 7283869
Registered with
Corporate Affairs Commission, Nigeria, on 2 January 2024
SCUML registration
Certificate number SC 151420010, issued 2 July 2024 under section 17(2)⁠(a) of the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Act, 2022
Office
Plot 116 Zone A, Apo Urban Market Luxury Shop Mall, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory