DEC Nigeria is a membership, non-governmental, non-religious, non-political organization that is providing social and micro financial services to women groups, communities and NGOS in Nigeria to enhance their capacity for sustainable development.
The Development Exchange Centre (DEC) was estabilished in November 1987 as a result of a joint research conducted by the Canadian university services Oversea(CUSO) and the Adult and Non Formal Education Agency (ANFEA) Bauchi State.
The research findings showed that women especially those in the rural areas are greatly disadvantaged in both social and economic terms, (usually resulting from cultural, religious and some harmful traditional practices, this is coupled with degree of material poverty among women have combined to make them highly dependent on men).
There was a strong need CUSO and ANFEA to establish in programme to respond and address this in balances in more sustainable way.
The centre started as a resource centre for sharing and exchange of developmental information with women in groups.
DEC has continued to pursue its broad objective of empowering women through the provision of micro finance services and entrepreneurial skills development, training/capacity building workshops, water supply, sanitation and hygeine promotion, reproductive health, gender, education and Information sharing.
