Consulting
Work with institutions
Leadership formation, governance, peacebuilding and youth development programmes, designed from two decades of work in Nigerian communities.
Services
Four ways Ishaya works with institutions
Leadership formation programmes (DLFF)
Cohort programmes built on the Durkwa Leadership Formation Framework for public servants, managers, pastors and student leaders. Character formed on purpose, not left to chance.
Governance and public integrity
Training and advisory for agencies and institutions on integrity at the point of decision, ethical culture, and leading honestly inside difficult systems.
Peacebuilding and community recovery (S3RP)
Community-designed recovery for areas affected by violence and displacement: Secure, Rebuild, Return, Rehabilitate and Protect.
Sport and youth development (DTCF)
Training coaches and youth leaders to use sport for mentoring, character formation and community transformation, using the Durkwa Transformational Coaching Framework.
Selected projects
Proof from the field
Case 1
S3RP: from displacement to dignity
The problem. Across Nigeria’s Middle Belt, violent attacks have driven entire rural communities from their ancestral lands. In one pilot community alone, 12 of 13 villages were destroyed, 744 houses lost, and more than 12,000 people displaced, with no camps and no political representation. Past efforts at return had failed because they were designed for communities, not by them.
What we did. Through PSJ, Ishaya funded and co-designed S3RP (Secure, Rebuild, Return, Rehabilitate, and Protect) in partnership with CONAECDA. It grew out of the Voice of the Voiceless forums, which brought displaced people from 22 communities in 10 states together to be heard. In 2023, we ran three-day workshops in Jos with four pilot communities. Each brought 15 stakeholders: traditional rulers, elders, development association leaders, women, youth, and religious leaders. The ground rule was simple: the community, not the outsiders, decides.
The results. Each community produced its own recovery report, formed a project management committee, and agreed on an action plan. One community resolved to write a land constitution, build a register of its people, and map its land: the foundations for reclaiming what was lost. S3RP showed that dignified recovery starts when displaced people are treated as designers of their future, not recipients of aid.
Case 2
Sport that forms young people, across 23 denominations
The problem. Churches across northern Nigeria had large numbers of young people but few practical tools to reach those outside the church or to form character in those inside it.
What we did. Over about two decades with Sports Friends International, Ishaya partnered with 23 denominations to train youth leaders and coaches to use sport as a tool for mentoring, discipleship, and community transformation. Training covered coaching, character formation, mentoring, and organising community sports ministries.
The results. 3,100 coaches and leaders trained, 23,000 young people reached, and a model now expanding across West Africa. This field experience became the Durkwa Transformational Coaching Framework (DTCF), the basis of The Field of Change.
Case 3
Raising young advocates for justice and peace
The problem. Young Nigerians are often recruited into violence or ethnic and religious division, or they retreat into despair and silence.
What we did. Through PSJ and Emerging Leaders, Ishaya mobilised and trained young people across Nigeria as social justice advocates and peacebuilders, equipping them to understand their rights, engage leaders constructively, document injustice, and lead peaceful community action.
The results. 4,200 young advocates trained in 36 states. In August 2024, during the nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests, young people in Jos organised through the Jos Coalition to End Bad Governance, which Ishaya represented, protested for days without violence. At a town hall with Governor Caleb Mutfwang, the coalition presented its demands peacefully and was heard, showing that young Nigerians can protest without violence and still be heard.
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