Toivo's work is organised across three mutually reinforcing programme areas. Together, they address the full arc of family preparation, from the period before a child is born through the community systems that must surround families once they exist.
Structured pre-natal education is effectively absent from Nigeria's primary healthcare delivery system. This programme addresses the gap directly, delivering curriculum-led parenting education before childbirth through community health platforms, antenatal care integration, and direct family engagement. It covers safe birth preparation, emotional bonding, early childhood stimulation, discipline, family communication, and financial readiness.
Learn More →Families navigating economic stress, relational conflict, and life transitions rarely have access to structured support. This programme builds the interpersonal and relational capacity that stable family systems require, communication skills, conflict resolution frameworks, and cohesion-focused support for couples and parents at critical transition points. The programme treats family breakdown not as a personal failure but as a systemic cost that preventive investment can reduce.
Learn More →The gap between where families actually live and where policy is made is wide and largely unmapped. This programme builds local support networks, activates communities as care systems, and translates grassroots evidence into advocacy. It is also the programme area through which Toivo produces its policy commentaries and research briefs, connecting family-level data to institutional decision-making.
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