{"id":8259,"date":"2017-01-18T10:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T09:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8259"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:44:57","slug":"ekanem-israel-eyo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ekanem-israel-eyo\/","title":{"rendered":"EKANEM, Israel Eyo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Worker, Prograrrunl Coordinator, Grassroot Empowerment Network (GEN); LGA: ltu; Born: Mar. 22,1963; Pa: Chief Eyo Ekanem and Alice E. _&#8230;.li &#8230;.. __ .. Ekanem (d); Married to Mrs. Ekirna I. Ekanem; Child: Ofonime (3); Education: African Church Secondary School, Oku, Itu, 1974-78, GCE; The Polytechnic, Calabar, 197984 , HND Business Admin; Other Qualifications: Cert in Rural Development Management, NCEMA, July 1995; Career and Work History: COIlUllUnity Development Officer, CODEP, Port Harcourt, 198588 ; Programme Officer, ST ARCRAFTS, Ikot Ekpene, 1988-91 ; Programme Officer, IF AD\/ NlRADO, Lagos\/Uyo, 1992; Programme Coordinator, GEN, Ikot Ekpene, 1 992-present; Consultant, UNDP, Lagos, Uyo, 1992; Career Related Activities: Training of Communities on Self Help, CODEP, STARCRAFTS, IFADINIRADO, Lagos and four states in South East Zone, 1988-92; Training in thirty States, Nigeria Export Network\/Peoples Bank\/GEN, lbadan and five LGAs in AKS, 1994-96; Training of Entrepreneurs in AKS, UNDP, Programmes, 1996-present; Special Work Related Achievements: Organised the first Alternative Trade Movement, 1992; Participated in Common Wealth NGO Liaison Unit Constitution Drafting Committee, 1995; Participated and presented paper in World Summit on Social Development, Denmark, 1995, and Third Annual World Bank Conference, Washington D.C., 1995; Publications: Military Dictatorship in Nigeria, 1995 and several others; Civic Activity: Women Rights Advocacy, GENfUN Centre for Human Rights, Four S6uthern Nigeria States, 1995-present; Honour: Listed as a National Expert with National Planning Commission, Multilateral Division and World Bank, Washington D.C. and UNICEF, Nigeria; Professional Memberships: Mem, American Management Asscn, USA; Mem, International Federation of Social Worke rs, Canada; Religious Affiliation: Christian; Hobbies: Counselling Women and Youths on Health and Basic Righi:s ; Office: Grassroots Empowerment Network, 49 Thong Road, P. O. Box 328, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State. Tel.: (085) 400328; Homt 49 Ibong Road, Ikot Ekpe ne, Akwa Ibom State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8259","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8259"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}