ICAN is hiring a Staff Accountant to provide financial and administrative support to ICAN’s Finance Director and broader team.
The Neem Foundation is a leading crisis response organization based in Nigeria that promotes the protection, wellbeing, and resilience of populations and communities living in contexts affected by conflict, violence, and fragility to strengthen their capacity to adopt inclusive approaches to recovery and mitigate future crises.
The Neem Foundation designs and delivers reintegration and stabilization services that target displaced communities as well as former associates of violent armed groups.
With specialties in psychological and mental health services, the team developed an understanding of violent extremism in order to help former fighters with the process of deradicalization, collaborating with the government of Borno State to offer a holistic program of psychological counselling, faith-based services, and vocational training to former members of violent extremist groups.
Through its advocacy and communications work, the foundation aims to influence narratives and collaborate with stakeholders to promote social cohesion, reconciliation, and community action to maintain peace and progress.
The Neem Foundation’s education component advocates for, and improves access to, quality education for marginalized and disadvantaged groups, especially girls, while its research work leverages key partnerships with global research institutions to inform evidence-based approaches to crisis interventions.

Introducing the Holistic Security Menu: a co-designed, partner-driven model that provides practical and sustainable security support—on women peacebuilders’ own terms.
Neem Foundation launched the She Builds Peace campaign in Borno State in March 2020 by convening women peacebuilders to discuss women’s participation in peace and security.
This report contributes a gendered analysis of approaches to the disengagement, rehabilitation and reintegration of women and girls associated with violent extremism. It highlights the gaps in current policies and practice, as well as the solutions that are emerging in part from the experiences and innovations of women-led civil society initiatives. The report concludes with practical recommendations for policymakers and programming guidance for practitioners.
19 participants from 12 partner organizations from Iraq and Syria met in Beirut for a five-day training on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, designed jointly by ICAN’s Stacey Schamber and Dr. Abiye Iruayenama from the Neem Foundation.
Dr. Fatima Akilu spoke to ICAN’s Aya Nader about how extremism affects women in her country, discussed rehabilitation and reintegration of extremists, and shared what motivates her to keep the fight for peace ignited.
Voice of a Practitioner in Nigeria – Fatima Akilu Dr. Fatima Akilu, Executive Director of the NEEM Foundation, psychologist, and partner of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) discusses her role as the founder of the Nigerian government’s deradicalization program for former members of Boko Haram, the importance of psychological and social programming to […]
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