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Climate Change

From the field, climate change isn’t data — it’s failed harvests and vanishing rains. Smallholder farmers feel it first. We work alongside them, building local resilience because survival happens at the roots, not in policy papers. The ground is shifting; we’re shifting with it.

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Who We Are

Grassroots Researchers Association (GRA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to evidence-based humanitarian response, conflict transformation, localization, and human rights protection across Northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt. Founded in Maiduguri in 2009 and registered with the CAC in 2016 (CAC/IT/NO 91131), GRA bridges the gap between frontline community needs and high-level policy frameworks.

Led by local experts and youth leaders who have risen directly from the communities they serve—including Executive Director Friday Bitrus—GRA operates across 8 high-priority states, driving the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus.

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Our Mission

To empower vulnerable populations through evidence-based research, localized humanitarian response, peacebuilding, and rights-based advocacy.

Our Vision

A peaceful, equitable, and resilient society where marginalized communities lead their own development and human rights are universally upheld.

What We Do

The 6 Strategic Pillars & Core Services

General Protection

GBV/CRSV prevention, legal aid desks, Women & Girls Safe Spaces (WGSS), civil documentation, and protection monitoring

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Food Security & Livelihoods

Emergency Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA), climate-smart agriculture, seed kits, lastly micro-business Resilience Shops

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Health & Care

In mobile health clinics, primary healthcare outreach, maternal/SRHR services, and specialized psychiatric/MHPSS care

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Education in Emergencies

Rehabilitation of learning spaces, teacher training in trauma-informed methods (TTTIM), and Accelerated Learning Programs (AEP)

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Anticipatory Action

Provide early warning SMS networks, climate risk mapping, pre-impact cash releases, and flood embankment reinforcements

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Conflict, Security & Justice

outh-led peacebuilding, local mediation committees, UNSCR 2250/1325 agenda implementation, and human rights monitoring

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Who we serve and impact

We Serve Women, children and persons with special needs or disabilities; survivors of conflict and conflict-related sexual violence; internally displaced persons; youth; and local institutions and civil society actors.

We work in Northeast Nigeria. The 2025 job posts describe projects across 19 local government areas, and the BAY states (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe) are named as the field base.

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