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 second year of operation tagged year of consolidation and expansion. The strategic focus for the year includes among other things consolidation and expansion of the programmes and refinement of the systems of the organization.

During the year under review, the programme of the centre was consolidated. Our pool of interns, volunteers and consultants was increased. The systems were refined including gender policy, IT policy, youth policy and fundraising strategy.