- ₦65.60 million disbursed
- 6,555 beneficiaries reached
- Nearly 20 projects across 15 States
The NGO Support Initiative (NSI) acts as a direct lifeline for local, women-focused charities in Nigeria that lost critical funding overnight due to the abrupt USAID withdrawal, utilizing your contribution to deliver rapid, strategic grants that immediately restore essential, life-saving services like women’s health and GBV prevention, while simultaneously implementing expert mentorship to strengthen the local NGOs’ systems, ensuring your investment enhances their long-term resilience and positions them to get vital aid and community impact back on track, fast.
Supported Projects
Nasarawa – Women Farmers Climate-Resilient Agriculture Project
Lagos – Market women Empowerment
Plateau – Women and Girls Empowerment Project
Adamawa – Community Empowerment Project
Abia – HIV Prevention and Care
About NSI Project
Since inception, NSI has mobilised ₦65.60 million in rapid, flexible support to stabilise essential services delivered by local, women-led, and community-based organisations nationwide.
Since early 2025, the NGO Support Initiative (NSI) has provided rapid, flexible grants of up to ₦5 million to help local Nigerian organisations continue high impact programmes disrupted by widespread funding cuts. Thousands of community based NGOs—especially those working in gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, school safety for girls, women’s health, and social justice—were forced to suspend their activities following the abrupt withdrawal of external funding beginning January 2025. The NSI was launched by the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) to stabilize these essential services and ensure that community rooted interventions do not collapse in the face of sudden resource gaps.
Through a transparent selection and vetting process, NSI connects donors and partners to credible, cost effective local initiatives and supports them with targeted capacity building in project management, evidence informed advocacy, financial accountability, compliance, and social behaviour change communication. High performing organisations are further recommended to social impact investors for scale up and long term sustainability.
Beyond emergency support, NSI continues to spotlight promising community projects nationwide—ensuring they remain visible, verifiable, and ready for continued donor engagement. You can explore a range of verified, high impact opportunities here: https://proimpact.tools/funding-opps.
