Programme
Village Savings and Loan Associations, cooperatives and community-based enterprise that help women, youth and displaced households build income and financial independence.
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
Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment2025
DISCOD has trained and established women's savings groups in 15 communities across Yola North, Yola South and Girei. In Damare, four groups of 45 members — 180 women — celebrated their third annual share-out.