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African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development
African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development
The Side by Side Movement is an initiative made up of people of faith, traditional leaders and faith-based organizations (FBOs) across the world committed to partnering together to challenge barriers to gender justice.
The Project Strengthening civic engagement and advocacy for effective natural resource governance in Nigeria, was developed to improve citizens (state and non-state actors) involvement and participation in the governance of natural resources in Nigeria.
The Community Led Collective Action for Girls Education (C-CAGE) project is conceptualized to address the root causes of barriers to girl child enrolment and retention in public primary and secondary schools in Numan, Song and Maiha Local Government Areas of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
The leadership capacity building for youth of the Niger Delta project, was a response to youth assessment studies carried out by the Foundation for the Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta.
Centre LSD anti-corruption work is programmed around Promoting transparency, accountability, citizens engagement, and service delivery at the national, sub-national and local government levels.
In recent times, the civic space in countries around the world are fast shrinking and under threat with the increasing activities of governments across the globe using laws, policies, and practices that inhibit the ability of citizens to exercise their rights and the freedom of civil society actors to operate freely without fear or intimidation.
The idea of youth participation in politics has become a popular part of contemporary political talk in every part of the world except Nigeria and particularly in the Niger Delta where one can note that youth participation in governance often end during electioneering campaigns and at the polls.
Improving delivery of sanitation services and access to water in PHC facilities in Anambra State, supported by IBP Spark – (2019 – 2020).
Promoting transparency in Nigeria through the implementation of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) – (2018 -2020). This intervention supported by the Mac Arthur Foundation, has influenced 13 subnational governments to sign up to the OGP through rigorous engagement of citizens and citizens groups.
Achieving a healthy and sustainable environment in the Niger Delta project supported by Cordaid – (2016 – 2020), as part of effort to restore the social contract in the Niger Delta. The Centre has through the lobby and advocacy project engaged and consistently championed campaign for the clean-up of Ogoni land and the Niger Delta.
Nigeria is a highly patriarchal and a deeply religious society. According to a 2001 report from the World Factbook by CIA, about 50% of Nigeria’s population are Muslims, 40% are Christians and about 10% belong to African Traditional Religion (ATR).
Feed the Future project implemented in Kebbi State with support from USAID – (2016 -2018). By this intervention, 1,264 households were graduated out of poverty through Conditional Cash Transfer.
The V2P project is a voice and accountability project that empowered the poor and marginalized to hold duty bearers to account to achieve service delivery.
Community-Led Total Sanitation project implemented in selected communities in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) including; Durumi III, Ruwan Fulani both in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) and Kuyizhi in Kuje Area Council. The project was supported by the Canadian International Development Agencies (CIDA) under its Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) – (2011 – 2012). The project was on sanitation and hygiene and after the intervention, the communities became Open Defecation Free (ODF).
Enhancing citizens participation in the budget process in Bayelsa State, a project implemented with support from Pact/USAID under its ADVANCE programme – (2011 -2012)
