@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika It is has evolved from two core frameworks: the first is omenala, the ancient code of Ndigbo that guides and nurtures our people and society. SIP is organised around its core values some of which I have seen posted here - the Ndigbo Values Initiative.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika #OnyeAghanaNwanneYa is a call to the deepest family instincts that make us responsible for each other. Its what the Americans celebrate as 'leaving no man behind' in wartimes.🙂For Ndigbo, it is a daily reflex, to look around you and see who needs help as you move on in life.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Our culture and code (omenala) discourages individual success that does not impact the community because we believe that greatness and all achievement is only made possible by what we do together - #Igwebuike anyi. We are stronger, better working together to lift all.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika See a response to the COvid-19 pandemic at the community -level is not a choice - it is our way, and anything else outside that is a departure from one's core. It is a journey without a compass, ultimately going nowhere for the community even if an individual effort is applauded
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika The second framework was adopted from best practice in pandemic management. As professionals, SIP defaults to excellence and we understood that mankind had faced these types of crises in the past and overcome. Our first job was to be informed and guided by experts and precedence
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika The “Three Ones” key principles for the Coordination of National Responses to HIV/AIDS, underpins the coordination that we see in the national effort driven by the Ministry of Health and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). SIP aligned to this and developed its model
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika We then reviewed the actions of the only successful country at the time that had figured out a tactical response: China. SIP Covid-19 Intervention decided to focus on direct interventions leveraging its network into the communities and influential persons & organisations. 
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika I will spare everyone much of the details and just share a few slides that explain perhaps better. With a clear focus on Prevention and some Mitigation, we setup an amazing team of professionals in workgroups that I continue to be in awe of. 🙏🙏 Awesome!
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika SIP is a non-partisan group of professionals that works through collaboration #igwebuike to cause development impact in communities - our model reflects that. We recognise that communities have existing self-organising structures and also relate through tiers of government. So we
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika complement those structures, provide support where needed focussing on areas of collaboration and identified needs. We are partners with specific assets that we deploy into the communities to support their own efforts, not impose ours. Our goal is to be respectful yet accountable
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika I had alluded earlier to SIP ethos being grounded in omenala, and the values of #OnyeAghanaNwanneYa and #Igwebuike . While these activate Ndigbo, the higher value is the sanctity of life - ndu ka ife nine (life is more important than anything else. And the individual has meaning
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika only in the context of the community from which she/he springs. Our intervention model is anchored on this and builds its value up and outwards to Alaigbo - wherever Ndigbo live, love, work and grow. SIP's interventions occur only at the town/village level.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika We seek out amongst our members mostly, individuals with strong legitimacy, convening authority and recognised character in each town/village where we operate. We determine the collaboration that fits the context and establish/align with a Local Response Team in a transparent way
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Where we are unable to establish a collaboration in an open, transparent and accountable manner, SIP does not engage further. We hold ourselves openly accountable for the trust the community chooses to place in us, and for the resources our members and partners deploy through us
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Accountability builds confidence in partners and the stakeholder community so evidence-based reporting is prioritised. SIP must be able to show that interventions reached the community. Respect and visibility for partners and influencers is built into the programme by design.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika It took a lot of work over a very short period but the SIP professionals pulled through with a model that is already delivering value in the fight against Covid-19. Now, documented as a toolkit covering five workstreams, SIP is able to engage wherever help is needed in Nigeria
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika So what have we done? With our focus on Prevention primarily, we have been able to mobilise broad support at all levels of our communities, across Nigeria and the world to drive the campaign for behavioural change to 'flatten the curve'. Purely on personal goodwill and commitment
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika We have found 'champions' at all levels, big and small, coming to do the little and the big things with no ask in return. #OnyeAghanaNwanneYa We launched the 'Ndu ka' theme as the overarching message to our audience and amplified through social and broadcast media for free.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika #Nduka found resonance with many, including our royal fathers, who led from the front in launching the campaigns with others joining later. With brilliant creativity, scripts, animated voice-overs and impactful graphics has carried the SIP messaging with demonstrable impact.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Our technical teams have continued to expand the capabilities of our web portal, societyofigboprofessionals.org to create a showcase into our targeted 5,500 communities, providing transparency to all interventions, SIP and non-SIP that are community-based. Search for yours!
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Across the seven Igbo homesteads, we seek to open windows into the communities - their needs, interventions, recovery - through the current crisis and post Covid-19 recovery phase.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika We knew this was a marathon, not a sprint. We are learning fast, in an open, transparent, collaborative manner and it now known from the states that are currently at the epicentre of the pandemic that the country is moving to the Community Spread phase - Alaigbo must be prepared
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika SIP believes that we must start now to prepare for Mitigation and this needs Funding. We have launched a fund-raising initiative to prepare boots on the ground to via training first responders for deployment to support the vulnerable, including with palliatives where possible.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika SIP is raising funds through a Covid-19 Project Account at Fidelity Bank, and a Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 Fund at Sterling Bank: giving.ng/igboprofession…. We have set an initial modest funding goal of N250m as we race to upscale capacity for prevention and mitigation.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Through the SIP Covid-19 Local Response Teams, we will work with stakeholders to assist primarily in the areas of:
Localising communications campaigns on behavioural change including myth-busting to counter the negative and inaccurate information; building Social Registers to
Localising communications campaigns on behavioural change including myth-busting to counter the negative and inaccurate information; building Social Registers to
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika enable targeted support based on global best practice, support for Food Banks, training for community healthcare workers, and expert assistance/advisory with on-boarding to Covid-19 Economic Recovery mechanisms such as the N50b CBN/NIRSAL Household Fund.
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika As we work together against the Covid-19 pandemic we foresee that the pandemic will eventually be slowed and stopped but the aftermath is perhaps more important in terms of re-building our communities. SIP will support Alaigbo to pass through the portal to a new, brighter future
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika More than ever before, Ndigbo must rediscover the uniqueness of our culture and history, and in that strength and courage, pass through the pandemic. Together, we can restore a society and an economy enriched by world-class human and material infrastructure, guided by Igbo values
@julietkego @nnannaude @NnamaniIfeomaC @ChifeDr @ogbuaku @Melmedia2013 @Chxta @emeka_okafor @EmekaOkoye @cfagbata @obiasika Thank you for your attention and for the contributions we expect that you will continue to make. Together, with our families, our friends and our communities, together we will win this war against Covid-19! #Nduka #OnyeAghanaNwanneYa #Igwebuike The time to act is now!
