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Programme

Health & Community Wellbeing

Illustration of a community health post marked with a heart and pulse line, a mother holding a baby, a water tap and a shade tree
A health educator speaking to community members seated on mats during an outreach

What we do

Community wellbeing and improved access to essential health services, working alongside state health institutions.

Approach

How we work, in this programme and every other

  • Inclusive & participatory development

    Communities help define problems, design solutions, implement and monitor results.

  • Youth & women's leadership

    Founded to remove barriers to youth and women's participation in decision-making — and still central to everything we do.

  • Accountability & good governance

    Transparent, accountable and inclusive systems, with communities engaging constructively with the institutions that serve them.

  • Partnership & collaboration

    Displacement, climate change and poverty are too complex for any one organisation to solve alone.

  • Community ownership & sustainability

    We build local capacity so gains last beyond individual project cycles.

Global goals

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3: Good health and well-being

In practice

Health & Community Wellbeing projects

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  • Health & Community Wellbeing2024

    Monthly Community Health Outreach Activities

    From February 2024 to March 2025, DISCOD ran monthly community health outreaches in selected communities across Adamawa State: screening, testing, health education and auxiliary drugs.

    Girei, Mubi South, Hong, Numan, Yola North & Lamurde, AdamawaCompleted

  • Health & Community Wellbeing2023

    2023 Mosquito Net Campaign, Fufore

    DISCOD was the Community Mobilization Partner in Fufore LGA for the CRS/MSH 2023 mass LLIN distribution campaign, promoting the proper and consistent use of mosquito nets.

    Fufore, AdamawaCompleted

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