How IDIPR Programmes Are Run

a. Use of Training Workshop in The Board has organised Sixty Four (65) Training Workshops since its inception to 7,990 participants in the areas like:-

(a) Chosen Enterprise
(b) Cooperative Principles/Management
(c) Record keeping
(d) Business Management with the following advantages- Knowledge Enhancement, - Skill, - Capability and - New Innovation and replication of IDIPR prototype.

b. Use of Cooperative System:- (Advantages)
(i) It helps in pooling of resources together
(ii) Experience sharing
(iii) Group pressure
(iv)Self-monitoring
(v) Easy coordination (vi) Easy repayment of loan
(vii) Substitute for collateral security
(viii) Ease joint security, etc.
To date IDIPR has over 700 Cooperative Groups.

c. Provision of loanable funds.

d. Linkage to market.

e. Provision of extension services.

f. Use of Central Sales Account.

IDIPR Programs

Youth Information Programme

The Youth Information Programme includes health counselling of youths, in-door games, information and business centre, training, skill acquisition, Youth in Agric, sponsorship, career talk and other recreational activities, scholarship, linkages, educational counselling, etc.

Medical and Health Programme

The Board has been involved in several Medical and Health Programmes as follows:

- Rehabilitation of the Accident and Emergency Unit of State Hospital, Ijebu-Ode.
- Construction of the Car Park and Drainage of the State Hospital, Ijebu-Ode.
- Provision of School Health Clinics in:

- Ansar-Ud-Deen High School, Otta Street, Ijebu-Ode
- Christ Church Secondary School, Molode, Sabo, Ijebu-Ode.
- Ogbogbo Baptist High School, Ogbogbo.
- Our Saviour Cathedral Nursery and Primary School, ijebu-Ode
- St. Lukes Anglican Primary School, Imodi-Ijasi
- To date over 11,276 Students/Teachers/Parents have received treatments from the Clinics on various ailments.
- Renovation and equipping of the Lying-In-Ward
- Annual free screening exercise and drug administration.
- Building of a Health Clinic at Eriwe Farm Village.

Micro-Credit

In the area of micro-credit, the Board has since inception disbursed a total sum of N302, 120,000.00as revolving loans to 7,209 beneficiaries. We are very proud, to say that our recovery rate has been very commendable – it is about 99.5%.

Enterprise Development Programme (EDPs)

This programme includes: pineapple production, all season vegetable production, pepper production, potato production, cassava, maize piggery, aquaculture, honey-bee production, poultry production, fish processing, rubber, cocoa, plantain, etc. Up-to-date, 2,512 stakeholders have benefited from a total loan of N343,445,136.00.

Establishment of Farm Villages

Access to land and security of tenure are important for poverty reduction initiatives to succeed. The 156 hectares of farmland acquired from the Ogun State Government where we settled our farmers has witnessed accelerated growth and has continued to receive worldwide commendations.

Diversification of business after a few successful years to another long sustaining enterprise like rubber, oil palm, cocoa etc. For instance IDIPR now has 5 farm villages namely: Eriwe (156 hectares), Imodi-Ijasi (100 hectares), Odo-Jobore (50 hectares), Ijesha-Ijebu (131 hectares), Oke-Nla (51 hectares) totaling 488 hectares

In the last ten years, the summary of the farmed fish alone sold at Eriwe is shown as follows: Eriwe Farm Village (156 hectares): Fish Production Outputs, Year 2006-206

Pre-City Consultation.

Series of mini-consultations were held with various groups of identified stakeholders Including the State and Local Government Council, the Traditional Authority, Council of Quarter Heads, Age Grades, Ijebu–Ode Development Association, Ijebu-Ode Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Co-operative Societies, Trade Associations, Artisans, etc. The goals of the mini-consultations were two folds;

To dialogue with the stakeholders on the objectives, scope and modalities of the City Consultation process and to emphasize that the stakeholders themselves, not the government, own the process.

To brief the stakeholders on the roles expected of them before, during and after the city consultation. As part of the mini-consultation, a special session was held with the officials of the Ijebu-Ode Local Government Council to sensitize them on the need to be more accommodating of other stakeholders in the governance of the city.

City Consultation.

Between the 22nd to 24th March, 1999, a City Consultation on poverty reduction in Ijebu-Ode was held under the aegis of His Royal Majesty, Oba (Dr.) S. K. Adetona, CFR, LLD, JP, Ogbagba II, Awujale of Ijebuland at the AafinAwujale, Ijebu-Ode. It was sponsored by the Development Policy Centre (DPC) Ibadan under the Chairmanship of Professor Akin Mabogunje, CON, NNOM, CFR and the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS) Ijebu-Ode under Professor Adebayo Adedeji, CFR, the Executive Director. The City Consultation was financially supported in full by the UNDP/UNCHS/World Bank – sponsored Urban Management Programme (Regional Office for Africa) Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

About 400 participants attended the City Consultation representing various categories of stakeholders: the three tiers of government, multilateral and donor agencies, NGOs, CBOs, the private sector, women organization, Artisans, Cooperatives, Market Men/Women, Community Leaders, Community Development Association, Age Grades, Youths, Students, Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Transporters, Civil Servants, the Media, Academia, and Traditional Authorities. There were also in attendance representatives of the National-Planning Commission, Federal and State Ministers and Multinational Agencies including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Urban Management Programme (UMP). Distinguished personalities like the then Military Administrator of the State, Navy Captain KayodeOlofinmoyin and his team of Commissioners; Royal Fathers in Ijebu led by His Royal Majesty, Awujale of Ijebuland, Ijebu-Ode Local Government Chairman and his Deputy; Mrs. Sarwar Sultana, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Nigeria, Ms. Mou Charles Harris, Regional Adviser, Urban Management Programme, Regional Office for Africa, UMP-ROA, Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire attended the Consultation.