Programme
Access to quality, inclusive learning — including Tsangaya education reform, school-needs assessments and learning materials for underserved pupils.
Approach
Communities help define problems, design solutions, implement and monitor results.
Founded to remove barriers to youth and women's participation in decision-making — and still central to everything we do.
Transparent, accountable and inclusive systems, with communities engaging constructively with the institutions that serve them.
Displacement, climate change and poverty are too complex for any one organisation to solve alone.
We build local capacity so gains last beyond individual project cycles.
Global goals
In practice
Education2024
DISCOD brought traditional, religious, education and community stakeholders together in Fufore to build collective support for reforming the Tsangaya education system.
Education2024
To mark World Children's Day 2024, DISCOD distributed learning materials to ten primary schools in Yola South to motivate pupils and support their learning.
Education2021
Under BESDA, DISCOD collected data on the conditions, needs and challenges of Tsangaya schools across three LGAs to inform education reform in Northeast Nigeria.
Education2018
DISCOD's first project: after a community needs assessment, 150 children in Namtari who wanted to attend school received learning materials and school uniforms.