Martina Centre for Sustainable Development

Research and Social Action

Martina Centre’s Community Social Action Interactive Forum
Development in mind. It is also for Planned Areas of Focus
MARTINA CENTRE’s main focus will be on Rural and Urban Poverty in the Middle-Belt sub-region.
The following among others, are the critical areas of interest for MARTINA CENTRE:
a. Rural Poverty and Development
i. Land use and Agricultural Production
ii. Income generation activities/Micro Credit programs
iii. Women in Development
iv. Food security and Nutrition
v. Housing
vi. Health with attention and special focus on the issue of HIV/AIDS and
primary/preventive health care
vii. Child survival, Education and welfare
viii. Insecurity, Structures and Process of Democracy in Rural Communities.

this reason that studies conducted by MARTINA CENTRE are gender sensitive so as to bring into sharper focus the differential impacts of policy on various group and sexes. There is a deliberate bias for women studies for obvious reasons.

Martina Centre for Sustainable Development

(In Consultative Status with UN Ecosoc)