The event of the JDPC Director’s / Coordinators’ Meeting for year 2022 was slated for the 25th to the 29th of October, 2022. The Meeting took place at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria Resource Centre, Abuja. 

The first day, 25th of October, was scheduled for the Arrival and Registration of Stakeholders, and stakeholders lodged at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria Resource Centre. 

On the day 2, Wednesday, 26th of October, the event commenced by 6:15am with the morning Mass at the chapel of the same venue.

During the meeting, Rev. Fr. Peter Audu gave the welcome address by welcoming the various Directors/Coordinators to the meeting. He thanked God for a safe trip to the event and hoped for fruitful deliberations.

Below are the presentations given on day 2 of the meeting.

1. Data Protection Laws – JDPC
2. Humanitarian & Emergency Response
3. Security and Safety
4. Caritas Nigeria – Resource Mobilization
5. CARITAS Nigeria – Administrative Department
6. CARITAS Nigeria – Human Resource Department
7. CARITAS Nigeria – Communications Department
8. Summary of 4GATES Project (No Presentation Provided)
9. Institutional Capacity Strengthening 
10. State of the Nation (No Presentation Provided) Group session of the various provinces.

The events of day ended with a dinner after the conclusion of the breakout session. The house welcomed the JDPC National Director/Secretary, Rev. Fr. Uchechukwu Obodoechina, who came in from his trip. Each group was advised to conclude their reports and forward for collation after dinner.

Day 3 started on a bright note with the Holy Mass, breakfast and opening prayer for the event of the day. The recap of the previous day’s activities was captured followed by the Address of the JDPC National Director/Secretary.  The director was pleased with the turn out of participants to the meeting regardless of the security challenges in the country. He commended their efforts and encouraged the directors to keep waxing strong in the activities of the JDPC in their respective provinces and dioceses. The meeting of the day accommodated zoom participants and during the group photographs which followed, the zoom participants also took a shot.

The other activities of the day include: 

Reports from the various Provinces:

1. Abuja Province
2. Edo Province
3. Oyo Province
4. Jos Province
5. Kaduna Province
6. Lagos Province
7. Onitsha Province
8. Owerri Province

Below is the link to the Zoom Meeting for some of the Provinces:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85467704185pwd=ckluZG93NDBBeUNhN3lGZXRvYkoyZz09 

Meeting ID: 854 6770 4185  
Passcode: 008447  

Other presentations made on Day 3 Include:

1. JDPC Structure Strengthening
2. Training / Capacity Strengthening of Provinces
3. Learning exchange visits among Provinces
4. Updates on Caritas Sunday for Emergency Resource Mobilization
5. Finance: Updates on Lenten collection and publication
6. Inputs from Good Governance Desk
7. Pre and Post Election Agenda

The meeting on Day 4 commenced with a Recap of activities of Day 3 with more discussions on the resolutions of the meeting of the Provincial heads and directors on day 3.

Other activities /training / discussion lined up for the day were:

Election Observation App 1

Election Observation App 2

The meeting concluded with the Final reading of resolution of the the reports and discussions.