The Office for Strategic Preparedness and Resilience
OSPRE is Nigeria's National Centre for the Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanisms — Nigeria's leading think tank on human security, promoting a culture of preparedness and resilience in strategic institutions, communities, and in public life.
Who We Are
Nigeria's National Centre for Early Warning and Response
The Office for Strategic Preparedness and Resilience (OSPRE) was established by Presidential Executive Order 12 pursuant to Article 58 of the Treaty of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Article 16 of the 1999 Protocol on the Mechanism relating to Conflict Prevention, Management, Resolution, Peacekeeping and Security.
OSPRE is Nigeria's leading think tank on human security and provides comprehensive cross-sector decision support, through the generation of crucial risk knowledge and anticipatory intelligence.
Guided by the principle of collaborative intelligence, the Centre receives streams of information from key institutions and agencies which it then synthesises to produce a composite strategic picture — distilled into risk assessments, strategic reports, and high-level policy briefs on topical, emergent, and over-the-horizon trends and issues.
Our Mission
To promote a culture of preparedness and resilience in our strategic institutions, communities and in public life in general.
Our Approach
In consonance with the human security paradigm, OSPRE leverages multidisciplinary expertise — enabling leaders to perceive the interconnectedness of risks across health, crime, ecology, economics, security and governance.
Coverage
Thematic Areas
OSPRE's analysis and advisory work spans nine interconnected domains of human security — recognising that security threats are cross-cutting and systemic.
Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding
Early warning indicators, conflict analysis, and strategic peacebuilding across Nigeria.
Crime & Criminality
Drug trafficking, irregular migration, human trafficking, organised crime, and cybercrime.
Security
Terrorism, violent extremism, and maritime security analysis and advisory.
Governance & Human Rights
Democratic governance, elections, human rights, unemployment, youth, and gender issues.
Health Security
Pandemics, epidemics, and public health administration risk intelligence.
Environment & Climate Security
Transhumance, land tenure, and climate change impact on security.
Energy Security
Energy infrastructure risk and strategic energy resilience assessment.
Food Security
Agricultural risk, food system vulnerabilities, and supply chain intelligence.
Economic Intelligence
Macroeconomic risk, informal economy threats, and financial stability analysis.
Our Mandate
What We Do
OSPRE operates as a nexus between key state institutions and civil society actors — forging partnerships between both dimensions to drive security, peace, and development initiatives across Nigeria.
- Provide comprehensive cross-sector decision support through risk knowledge and anticipatory intelligence
- Provide governments, state actors, civil society, and communities with tools to prevent, mitigate and contain threats
- Partner with organisations and institutions to build collaborative nationwide early warning and response systems
- Work with ECOWAS and national institutions to analyse human security threats
- Offer strategic advice to government on short, medium, and long-term responses
- Facilitate mobilisation of necessary resources for crisis prevention and response
- Deliver timely and accurate analysis to drive evidence-based policymaking
- Serve as a nexus between key state institutions and civil society actors
- Support establishment and strengthening of early warning mechanisms at subnational levels
- Receive and synthesise information streams to produce composite strategic intelligence pictures
How OSPRE Works
Multidisciplinary Research
Leveraging expertise across health, crime, ecology, economics, security, and governance.
Collaborative Intelligence
Receiving and synthesising information from key institutions to produce composite strategic pictures.
Whole-of-Society Approach
Connecting state and non-state actors across early warning, development, and peacebuilding.
ECOWAS Integration
Aligning national frameworks with ECOWAS Article 58 and the 1999 Security Protocol.
“In consonance with the human security paradigm, the Centre leverages its multidisciplinary expertise underpinned by a strong research ethic to provide comprehensive and integrative portraits that enable national and regional leaders perceive the interconnectedness of risks.”
Explore OSPRE's Programmes
Learn about CONCORD, SPARCS, and our full suite of early warning and resilience programmes.