The Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA) in Nigeria is a consortium of three international NGOs, namely Tearfund, Search for Common Ground, and Mensen met een Missie, and six local implementing partners. These are Dialogue, Reconciliation and Peace (DREP) Centre, Development Initiative of West Africa (DIWA), Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN), (RURCON) and SUWA.

The JISRA programme aims to address and transform intra-, inter-, and extra religious dynamics in Nigeria to promote Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB). The activities under the three pathways are interrelated and designed to connect with each other to significantly reduce FoRBs and FoRBs-related conflicts in target locations and foster peaceful co-existence in the ten Local Government Areas situated in Kaduna and Plateau states of Nigeria. The programme will leverage on the role of a variety of actors, including religious leaders, young women and men from different religious and ethnic backgrounds and civil society, to identify, reflect, and build upon specific entry points for interreligious, interreligious, and extra religious engagement and promote an inclusive, tolerant, and flourishing society in Nigeria.