The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established under Nigerian laws to build strategic leadership for sustainable development in Africa. The vision of Centre LSD is an African society where there is dynamic, strategic and visionary leadership committed to sustainable development. The Centre’s mission is to work with forces of positive change to transform society through appropriate leadership, strategy and development approaches. The centre is guided by the values transparency and accountability; integrity; feminism; diversity; dignity of the human person and Pan-Africanism.

The Centre was registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on 17th January, 2010 with registration number CAC/IT/No 36563.

This annual report presents the work of the centre in its first year of operation tagged year of laying of foundation. The strategic focus for the year includes among other things appointment of quality Staff, institutionalisation of systems (HROD, Finance and Audit), development of programmes, development of Partnerships (Organisations, Networks and Donors), capacity building of staff and creation of avenue for reflection and strategic thinking including Monday morning meetings, management training, annual staff/Board retreat and annual programme meeting.

In order to achieve its mission, the centre developed and implemented programmes in the three core areas of its work namely leadership, strategy and development with a staff strength of nine persons. In addition, a governance structure was put in place and human resource and organizational policy and finance policies adopted .