Doris Okereke
About me
Doris is an outstanding change maker, dependable team player, a strong voice for positive change and beacon of hope. She is an Advocate, entrepreneur, researcher and Development worker with over five years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She is a Master’s Degree holder with PhD in view. She is lecturer at Ebonyi State University, Tetfund Scholar, the founder and Executive Director, Susew Human Development foundation, focal person, Inspiring generation and humanity support foundation Africa and the program officer, Tabitha Cumi foundation on gender based violence alert project sponsored by palliduim.
Doris has continued to promote environment sustainability. And influence decision that brings about change in actions in communities as a peace ambassador with Institute of Economic Peace (IEP), and shortlisted as a peace fellow with the rotary as an alternate.
She is the deputy Secretary for resource mobilization and partnership at the Global Youth Consortium on Female Genital Multilation at UNFPA - UNICEF Joint program targeted at ending all forms of violence and infringement of the right of women and girls. This consortium comprises of youths from sixty five countries. As Deputy Secretary, Resource mobilization and partnership, as team, organized strategic Advocacy for Policy and Legislation Reform to establish stringent punitive measures against parents or persons that mutilate, cut or made to be cut or scraps the female genital.
She introduced an evangelical strategy to spur radical community advocacy and involvement of traditional institutions and establishement of Community Action Committee. Our strategic advocacy and penatration of our Gender Equity Policy resulted to the review of the Gender Policy of the Government, setting up of FGM Tasksforce Committee.
The activities conducted have also created community buy-in, support and commitment to end gender based violence and also stimulated more awareness and boldness to resist and report FGM cases among girl child through our peer education activities.
Doris has advocated for environmental safety and climate mitigation and adaptation actions through improvement and strengthening of citizens and local communities information and response actions to climate change issues with view to combating poverty, create climate and environmental justice, improved environmental and biodiversity protection policies.
she has lobbied Department of Climate change, government leaders, the media, and other key stakeholders to pass stronger legislation on broker climate policy reforms, resulting in a new law that designates funding from the government for tree planting in all the communities. She also implemented campaign with environmental safety message for the masses that helped them to have more understanding on climate change and led to 50% awareness on climate issues in several communities.
Previously, Doris worked as a youth climate innovator with Federal Ministry of Environment under the UNDP Program where she pitched several climate action ideas with team. She advanced climate education and climate change awareness after attending world climate school, Norwegian, Oxford Climate School London, Climate Leadership Fellowship, and Green Leader Academy. Specifically, she has trained five thousand youths as a climate educator. Doris has volunteered as a climate educator on climate mitigation and adaptation, including UNDP, Extinction Rebellion, Home of Mother Earth Foundation, Community Against Plastic Waste, Community Actors Accelerator Program and Global Warming Shield. Through these experiences, she has learnt the importance of teamwork and successful leadership in reaching her goals with great diligence. With a strong passion for environmental safety and climate mitigation actions, Doris strives to achieve social impact by cross generational dialogue on issues bordering how to achieve clean, safe and sustainable environment conservation and also an end to gender based violence.
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Ikechukwu D. Chikaodili, Ifijen I Hillary, Esther U Ikhuoria (2018) Comparative Studies on in-situ and Conventional Transterification of Palm Kernel Biomass for Biodiesel Production. JACSOnline Group Publisher. DOI:10.22341/jacs.on.00xxxpxxx
Esther U. Ikhuoria, Ita E. Uwidia, Rachel O. Okojie, Ikhazuagbe H. Ifijen, Ikechukwu D. Chikaodili (2024). Synergistic Antibacterial Action of Iron, Silver, and Vanadium Ternary Oxide Nanoparticles: Green Mediated Synthesis Using Tailored Plant Extract Blends. Biomedical Materials and Devices. Springer DOI:10.1007/s44174-024-00162-8
Rachel O. Okojie, Esther U. Ikhuoria, Ita E. Uwidia, Ikhazuagbe H. Ifijen and Ikechukwu D. Chikaodili. (2024). Psidium guajava extract-mediated iron, vanduim, and silver ternary oxide nanoparticles for sustainable antibacterial application. Current Chemistry letters 13(3), 515-530.
Ifijen, I.H., Ikhuoria, E.U., Omorogbe, S.O., Anegbe, B., Jonathan, E.M., Chikaodili, D.I. (2023). Chemical, plant and microbial mediated synthesis of tin oxide nanoparticles: antimicrobial and anticancer potency. Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43153-023-00315-0
Ifeanyi. J. Odiachi, Oghomwen C. Ize-Iyamu, Osaro K. Ize-Iyamu, Chikaodili D. Ikechukwu, Ikhazuagbe Hilary Ifijen (2023) Systematic Review of the System of Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles via Plant Mediated Green Approach: The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (eds) TMS 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series.
E. U. Ikhuoria, I. E. Uwidia, R. B. Okojie, I. H. Ifijen, and Ikechukwu. D. Chikaodili (2024). Prospects of Utilizing Environmentally Friendly Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized from Musa Paradisiaca Peel Extract for Potential Covid-19 Treatment. TMS 2024 153RD Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings.
Ita E. Uwidia, Esther U. Ikhuoria, Rachel O. Okojie, Ikhazuagbe H. Ifijen, Ikechukwu D. Chikaodili (2024). Synthesis of Ternary Nanoparticle of Iron, Silver, and Vanadium from Blended Extracts for Potential Tuberculosis Treatment. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (ed.), TMS 2024 153RD Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50349-8_118.
Ita E. Uwidia, Esther U. Ikhuoria, Rachel O. Okojie, Ikhazuagbe H. Ifijen, Ikechukwu D. Chikaodili (2024). Antibacterial Properties of Rod-Like Vanadium Oxide Nanostructures via Ganoderma lucidum Plant Extract Approach. Chemistry Africa. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42250-023-00854-6
Rachel O. Okojie, Esther U. Ikhuoria, Ita E. Uwidia, Ikhazuagbe H. Ifijen and Ikechukwu D. Chikaodili. (2024). Phytochemical-mediated Green Synthesis of Silver oxide Nanoparticle for potential Cholera treatment. TMS 2024 153RD Annual Meeting & Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50349-8_115.
E. U. Ikhuoria, I. E. Uwidia, R. B. Okojie, I. H. Ifijen, I. D. Chikaodili, and A. Fatiqin. (2023). Advancing Green Nanotechnology: Harnessing the Bio-reducing Properties of Musa paradisiaca Peel Extract for Sustainable Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Journal of Multidisciplinary Applied Natural Sciencein press. https://doi.org/10.47352/jmans.2774-3047.194.
IH Ifijen, EU Ikhuoria, EI Uwidia, ID Chikaodili, RO Okojie (2024) Antibacterial Properties of Musa paradisiaca Peel Extract-Derived Ternary Oxide of Iron, Vanadium, and Silver Nanoparticles: A Green Approach for effective Infection Control. Science and Education 5(4), 19-42.
IH Ifijen, EU Ikhuoria, EI Uwidia, RO Okojie, ID Chakaodili, (2024) Fe-Ag-V Ternary Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesized from Ganoderma lucidum Extract: Antioxidant and Antibacterial Proficiency in Focus. Nanomedicine Research Journal