Africanization Initiative

Product Regulations
Awareness Division.

Guiding African manufacturers, technocrats, professionals, and scholars to place quality products and services on the shelves of fellow African countries — across the continent's 54+ markets.

Coordinator

A regulator with a decade in the field

Dr. Hope Ifeadi, FIIAS

Coordinator · Product Regulations Awareness Division

Dr. Mrs. Chekwube Nkemjika Ifeadi — known as Dr. Hope by her peers and colleagues — is a native of Illah in Oshimili-North Local Government Area of Delta State, south-south Nigeria. She is a veterinary doctor and pharmacologist by training, and serves as Adjunct Faculty in Health and Quality at Emmanuel University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

A public servant and seasoned regulator with over ten years' experience at the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in Nigeria, Dr. Ifeadi has worked across QMS-related activities, regulatory functions, and representation of the agency at meetings and workshops both nationally and internationally.

The 54+ countries on the African continent indicate a shared need: commerce and economics that address the challenges of each country's peoples.

IIAS organized a group of experts in different specializations. The Product Regulations Awareness Division (PRAD) is responsible for responding to each country's commerce and economic needs when those countries come calling.

The Division does not provide a static or strait-jacket formula. Each country's needs are unique and often subject to its cultural antecedents. But products and services must meet standards — and PRAD guides Institute members who intend to export to or import from African countries other than their own.

Areas of Expertise

Topics on which Dr. Ifeadi has presented

A representative sample. The Division's expertise extends across pharmacology, food safety, agricultural regulation, and continental trade compliance.

  • Misuse and abuse of prescription drugs: an overview
  • Antimicrobial residue in food animals: causes and health effects
  • Disposition of toxicants
  • Molecular drug action at the membrane level: receptor kinetics, occupancy rate, theories of drug action
  • Receptor models and receptor-based strategies for new drug development
  • Pharmacogenomics and gene mapping
  • Angiotensin action in water conservation
  • Hormones influencing metabolism and the reproductive system
  • Registration process for veterinary medicine and allied products
  • Food safety impacts of antimicrobial use in fish farming
  • Gastrointestinal nematode and body condition score in trade goats
  • Risk perception and assessment
  • Listing licenses for agrochemical marketers
  • Sale of unregistered or expired agrochemicals: implications
  • Improper storage of agrochemicals
  • Product certification and standardization
  • Hormones as growth promoters: implications of hormone therapy

Method

How the Division operates

01

Volunteer-led service

PRAD uses Institute members on a volunteering basis to provide solutions to needing African populations. Volunteer commitment runs deep precisely because no transactional incentive distorts the work.

02

Specialist matching

In situations where direct volunteer expertise is unavailable, the Division facilitates a connection between the needing community and the appropriate specialists — to deliver quality Afrocentric commerce or economic strategies.

03

Cross-border trade guidance

For Institute members manufacturing, marketing, exporting, or importing to or from African countries other than their own, the Division determines the steps needed to comply with each destination's regulatory framework.

Collaborating Institutions

Working in coalition

  • Center for Academic Research and Educational Sustainability

    Editorial partnership on continental research.

  • Africanization Accreditation Council

    Accreditation alignment for product certification.

  • Emmanuel University

    Academic and faculty partnership.

  • Global Peace Missions, Inc.

    Long-standing partner organization.

Are you an African manufacturer?

Become a Member of IIAS and get assigned to the appropriate Strategy Committee. The Division is continuously inviting individuals with the skills, training, and preparation to establish their internal clout with IIAS — and to provide platforms for exporting and importing products and services within Africa.

Apply for Membership Email the Division