DPAT Foundation is a is a multifaceted non-governmental, not-for-profitorganization committed to the development (through training), growth (constant and continuous knowledge and information provision) and success by linking and giving access to finance to women and youths of each and every member community, by bringing to full awareness through education, promotion, exhibition and exportation of the vast riches of Agroproduce as well as arts, designs and crafts produced by our farmers and entrepreneurs as we enhance true management and productivity amongst the industry’ stakeholders through due consultations, capacity building and empowerment with a global perspective.
We are an institution driven by passion to alleviating and reducing the incessant and bogus line of poverty level facing the Nigerian women and youth. We are aware that the fight against poverty is a fight by all and for all, as such our intensifying effort to reach the unreached of our society of both the urban and rural communities.
We are an indigenous community based organization whose scope of work spreads from skills acquisition/empowerment programmes in Fashion/Style, ICT/Security (Cyber & CCTV), Renewable Energy, Hospitality; to Agriculture and Health (HIV, Drug Abuse & Environment).
Vision:
To develop and enhance the welfare of the ordinary Nigerian Woman and Youth through advocacy, intervention and the repositioning of their human-capital and material resources for the promotion of economic advancement via empowerment and encouraging self-reliance.
Mission:
- To foster wealth creation by promoting Businesses and Entrepreneurial development among Nigerian Youth and Women,
- Also working, managing and maintaining inclusiveness of HIV and drug related people in our communities have a normal and productive life,
- Promote and campaign the wealth of a healthy environment by enjoining all stakeholders embrace a healthy waste disposal method,
- Establishing strong alliance with private Agric business
- Organizing mini trade fairs for formers/Agric business
- Women and youth economic inclusion opportunities
- Establishing cottage industries in the remote area
- Promoting members farm products and Agric business on our web page
- Monitoring and coaching.
Our Aims:
- Committed to the development (through training), growth (constant and continuous knowledge and information provision) and success by linking and giving access to finance to each and every member community.
- Bring to full awareness through education, promotion, exhibition and exportation of the vast riches of Agro-produce as well as arts, designs and crafts produced by our farmers and entrepreneurs.
- Enhance true management and productivity amongst the industry’ stakeholders through due consultations, capacity building and empowerment with a global perspective.
Our Core Values: SIRE
Service:
We will passionately serve our society through whole hearted devotion to the pursuit of wealth creation.
Integrity:
In our conduct, at all time, we will act with integrity by always doing right.
Relationship:
Every relationship counts so we treat people with esteem, consideration and respect for the benefit of all.
Excellence:
We will consistently achieve excellence by regularly surpassing merits, exceeding expectations and being the best.
STATEMENT OF NEED
Nigeria, the most populous Black Nation in Africa and the World has experienced severe economic hardship in the past twenty years. This has resulted in a decline in the country’s prosperity and a concomitant shrinkage in job opportunities. During this period, education and health services in the country deteriorated, while unemployment rates and poverty levels increased drastically. With a low GDP growth 5% – 8.40% per year, an average per capita income of under $300, weak currency and high inflation, Nigeria had been unable to effectively compete in the global arena.
Rapid urbanization of the nation, coupled with a shrinking economy created an environment in which over 70% of the recent graduates who reside in urban areas were unemployed. While a significant percentage of these graduates had entrepreneurial aspirations, and had attempted to create self-employment opportunities, only a few actually succeed. The vast majority, with limited entrepreneurial skills, networks and financing remained frustrated and discouraged. Unfortunately, little progress had been made by the private, public and NGO sectors in Nigeria to provide an enabling environment for the promotion of business development among urban youth. Even though they constitute a sizeable percentage of the population, in this class and age-based society, they are typically not regarded as serious contributors to the economy. While governments of other developing countries have recognized the need for small business development among their youth and have encouraged private sector-led growth in this area, Nigeria has not proactively implemented similar initiatives.
Historically, Nigerian initiatives have focused on “micro” entrepreneurs in the rural areas, as demonstrated by the emergence of the Millennium development goal (MDG). In addition, other initiatives have focused on established entrepreneurs in the urban areas and while these are all laudable initiatives with noble goals, they have not attempted to address the unique needs of urban youth. As a result, these youths remain a vulnerable and neglected segment of the society not forgetting their health status and drug related concerns.
DPAT Foundation approach therefore is to target this class of society with the objective of empowering them to create wealth putting into account the sustainable development initiative of the United Nations by awakening, developing and supporting their entrepreneurial instincts. We believe that this approach will successfully break the cycle of unemployment-induced poverty in our society.
DPAT Foundation approach to wealth creation in Nigeria is innovative for these primary reasons.
First, while most enterprise development organizations focus on rural dwellers, DPAT Foundation seeks to cater to women and the urban and rural youth, a vulnerable and an often-neglected segment of society.
Secondly, historical business development initiatives in Nigeria have either been championed by the government or by international agencies. However, DPAT Foundation is a private sector-led initiative, created and funded by Nigerians who are concerned about the poor state of the nation.
Thirdly, most training programmes offered by organizations in urban Nigeria are cost prohibitive because they rely on “career trainers”. In addition, they are often theoretical and sometimes prove ineffective when applied in the nation’s harsh economic terrain. However, since DPAT Foundation relies on volunteer instructors, mentors, and consultants, it is able to minimize its cost structure, while providing “world-class” training to individuals who ordinarily would not be able to afford it. In addition, its primary reliance on local entrepreneurs and mentors as opposed to “full-time trainers” ensures that the instruction and support provided via DPAT is realistic, dynamic and relevant.
Fourth, DPAT Foundation Mentoring Programme is one of its kind in Nigeria. In an environment characterized by corruption, the youths have continued to celebrate mediocrity. However, through its mentoring programme, the youths are given the opportunity to interact with entrepreneurs who have achieved success through hard work, innovation, enterprise and strong business ethics. These mentors are expected to devote at least 12 hours over a four-month period to their participants during which they are expected to cover three major topics – personal development, entrepreneurial skills and business etiquette.
Fifth, most microfinance institutions that support the youths use the traditional group-based lending and training approach, which often limits the diversity of the businesses that they are able to support. In addition, many of these efforts are uncoordinated and do not provide their beneficiaries with the breadth and depth of support that they require to establish successful businesses. Therefore, by offering a comprehensive set of services to its participants, DPAT Foundation ensures that these individuals receive the support that they need to establish sustainable businesses. It is also important to recognize that DPAT also offers one-on-one support to these entrepreneurs as they attempt to create marketable business plans and tailors its services to fit their unique needs.
Sixth, while most entrepreneurs focus on debt financing as the only major financing alternative, DPAT Foundation not only provides extensive training on the “equity option”, but also creates avenues for its participants to raise substantial financial support. By introducing semi-annual investors’ forum and business plan competitions, both the 1st of their kind in Nigeria, DPAT Foundation has been able to successfully link its participants to equity investors.
Finally, DPAT Foundation seeks to transform the Nigerian business landscape and the public health sector by sharing its world-class training materials, publications and training procedures with microcredit and entrepreneurial development organizations in Nigeria. In addition, by offering training programmes to the staff and beneficiaries of these organizations, DPAT Foundation can ensure that it has widespread impact.
WHAT WE DO:
Through DPAT School of Entrepreneurship, we provide aspiring, emerging and experienced entrepreneurs with training, knowledge and information on how to start, grow and sustain their businesses.
Aspiring Entrepreneurs Programme (AEP)
- For startups, new and early stage entrepreneurs.
Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme (EEP)
- For owners, managers and chief executives of MSMEs in business for at least five years.
Special Entrepreneurs Programme (SEP)
- Growth Sectors: Entrepreneurs in the technology, creative industry, health and agriculture sectors
- Key Demographics: Women, Females, Youths and Pre-Retirees.
We provide data and information on entrepreneurship in Nigeria and support public advocacy towards the development of an enabling environment for entrepreneurship in Nigeria. This is done through:
- Thought Leadership
- Research Reports
- Policy Dialogue Series on Entrepreneurship
* Policy Workshops.
OUR PARTNERSHIP AREAS:
- Up-to-date Skills/Vocation training Centres/Equipment
- Improved seeds and Agro-inputs for Farmers
- Support and Subvention
- Buses and Hi-Lux Trucks
OUR PARTNERSHIP BENEFITS:
- Investment Opportunities
- Brand/Product Promotion
- Website Content Outsourcing
- CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Promotion
- Mileage
- Corporate Networking/Referrals.
OUR PARTNERS:
- National Directorate of Employment (NDE).
- Federal Capital Territory Administration and the six Area Councils.
- Abuja Enterprise Agency (AEA).
- Federal Ministry of Women Affairs.
- Bank of Industry (B.O.I).
- Federal Ministry of Youth.
- FCT Agency for Mass Education and Literacy.
- Operation Blessing-Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) Africa.
- National Youth Service Corp (NYSC).
- Air Wave Limited
- Gwagwalada Area Council
PROJECTS INITIATED AND COMPLETED
- Training centers initiative – FCT located at:
Shenagu, Wuna, Ibwa II, Angwan-Gwari, Kaida and Peti villages.
- Door-to-Door vocational skills training:
- Marginalized Nomadic Fulani groups in remote centers- Gwagwalada Area Council (production of soap, detergents, hair products, candle wax and Jewell-making),
- Train a hundred (100) women- Municipal Area Council at Fahood-Labaddi Mosque Zone 3 and Al’nada Women.
PAST PROJECTS: | |
2007 | – Vocational Skill a Key to Nation Building |
2008 | – Arresting Poverty in the Midst of Plenty |
2009 | – Giving Back to the Community |
2010 | – Vocational Training and its Effect on the Economy |
2011 | – Sustainability a key to Meaningful Development |
2012 | – Health, a prerequisite to Skill Acquisition |
2013 | – People’s means and end to Development |
2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2020 2021 2022
2023 | – Time to be seen and heard – Understanding sustainable human development – Perspective on peace and economic recovering in Africa – Woman in Development – Functional literacy Spring board for empowerment – Turning the tide of mass illiteracy – Support and that substitution – Environmental Management for socio-Economical Development – Proposed: Education Empowers a Brighter Future and cultivate Excellent Minds |
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Mobilization/Sensitization Workshop by FCT(AME/UNDP) 1996
- Non-Governmental Associations for Literary and Support Service (NOGLASS) 1997
- Didactics/Workshop on Management and Organization (NDE/Federal Republic of Germany) 199
- NDE Best Entrepreneur in FCT 1997
- NDE Best Training Award 1997
- International Association for Volunteer Effort (IAVE) 2000
- Award on Cultural African Designer in FCT 2000
- USA Ambassador, Mr. Howard F. Jeter Girls Scholarship (AGSP)
- Education for Development and Democracy Initiative(EDDI)
- Certificate of Start-Up Your Business by NDE 2001
- Certificate of Excellence 1st All NDE Job Fair and Best Entrepreneur 2006
- Certificate of Attendance on Capacity Building Workshop in 2007
- Pedagogical Principle by NDE
- Member, School Base Management Board committee School for the Gifted Gwagwalada Abuja (Present) 2009
- Member Seed Coordinating Committee FCT Agriculture,
Inaugurated by the Hon. FCT Minister Senator Bala Mohammed 2012 - Appointed as coordinator woman Committee Area Command Gwagwalada (Police Community RelationCommittee (PCRC) 2022
- Appointed as security, Health and Education coordinator FCT- Abuja (S.H.E) 2022
- Appointed as JakadiyaSarikinSana’arHanu of Gwagwalada Abuja 2023
CONTACT: 203B UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA ROAD, B/4 GADONASCO PILOT SCIENCE SCHOOL, GWAGWALADA, ABUJA.
EMAIL: [email protected]
WEB: www.dpatfoundation.org
PHONE NOs: +234.806.591.4499 | +234.803.606.9887 | +234.803.554.5726