Empowering communities, restoring hope, and building a peaceful future
A non-governmental development, humanitarian and social enterprise organisation, working across Nigeria to improve lives through sustainable, community-led initiatives.
- 13
- Thematic areas of work
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- Institutional partners
- 2024–25
- UNICEF project delivered
- 03
- Funders on our last project
Who we are
Bincike is Hausa for inquiry. It is also the method. We research first, then act on what the evidence shows.
Bincike International is a humanitarian and development private sector organisation committed to improving the lives of Nigerians through sustainable development initiatives. With community empowerment as its focus, the organisation designs and implements innovative programmes addressing pressing social, economic and environmental challenges.
We are dedicated to harnessing research and development to cultivate peace, promote health and security awareness, and drive social development through community-led initiatives. Our method is to leverage technology and collaborate with local stakeholders in order to drive lasting positive change.
We work across communities to empower young people, support vulnerable populations and create safer environments, through awareness campaigns, capacity building and humanitarian outreach. The aim is a society in which people live with dignity, resilience and opportunity.
- Organisation type
- Development, humanitarian and social enterprise
- Head office
- Jimeta, Yola, Adamawa State
- Area of operation
- Nigeria, with regional engagement
- Aligned to
- UN Sustainable Development Goals
What guides us
Mission, vision and goal
Three statements that decide what we take on, and what we turn down.
Mission
To innovate, collaborate and act with compassion, integrity and sustainability.
Vision
Empowering communities, preserving the environment and providing humanitarian aid for a brighter future.
Goal
To bridge divides, amplify community voices and deliver practical, lasting solutions to social and environmental challenges through inclusive partnerships and locally-driven initiatives, strengthening systems and accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
How we work
Four commitments we can be held to
Compassion
The people a programme is designed for are the people who decide whether it worked. We start from what they report, not from what is easiest to deliver.
Integrity
We publish what we can stand behind. A figure we have not verified does not go on a page, and a result that disappointed us is still a result.
Innovation
Research, technology and method applied where they change an outcome, not where they make a proposal read better.
Sustainability
A programme is sized to what a community can maintain after the funding ends. Anything else is a handover that never happens.
Our work
Thirteen areas, one method
Each begins with inquiry and ends with something a household can measure.
- Livelihood and economic empowermentEnterprise, capital and training for households
- Protection and social reintegrationSafeguarding, and a route back into community life
- Gender equality and social inclusionWho a programme reaches, and who it misses
- Peacebuilding and social cohesionMediation, dialogue and cohesion between groups
- Advocacy and policy influencingCommunity evidence carried into policy rooms
- Monitoring, evaluation, research and learningEvidence that shapes programme design
- Public healthHealth systems, disease and access
- Climate changeAdaptation, mitigation, resource management
- Smart agricultureData-driven, climate-smart farming
- Counter wildlife traffickingEnforcement, community action, conservation
- Combating illegal miningEnforcement, remediation and safer livelihoods
- EducationTeacher training, curriculum and skills
- Promotion of mineral resources investment and tradeResponsible investment and formal mineral trade
Working on something we should be part of?
We take on programme design, field research and delivery with institutions, funders and government.