Funding Opportunities at North-East Development Commission – Education Endowment Fund (NEDC-EEF)

The North-East Development Commission - Education Endowment Fund (NEDC-EEF) is intended to address the poor human development indices, high illiteracy rate and high poverty levels of the North-East. The broad aim of the Fund is to develop sufficient human capital in order to acquire adequate capacity for infrastructural and socio-economic development of the NE region.

The following objectives of the NEDC-EEF are drawn from the broad goal for the Fund.

1. Build Adequate Manpower for a 21st Century North East Economy.
2. Sustainably improve the basic education sub-sector through the provision of requisite infrastructure, equipment, furniture, teaching and learning materials and training/retraining of teachers.
3. Galvanise partners’ synergy in ensuring the delivery of qualitative learning to students.
4. Support the immediate and midterm injection of multi-sector market driven skills into the region.
5. Support the injection of specialized professional skills over the mid to long-term in the region that are both locally and internationally relevant.
6. Contribute to peacebuilding in the region through strategic grassroot sports initiatives.
7. Create a platform for networking and cross pollination of ideas by the upcoming North East Intelligentsia.
8. Ensure equity in access to future opportunities by providing scholarships to less privilege students.
9. Coordinate the targeting and mobilization of resources for investments in the education sector.