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 with strategic leadership and sustainable development. The Centre’s mission is to work with forces of positive to empower citizens to transform society. 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 is the eighth annual report since the Centre started operation and the strategic focus for the year is quality improvement and consolidation. Every year, we focus on an area that is critical to the growth and development of the organization. The focus this year is to improve quality of proposal writing, donor reporting and quality of implementation. In terms of implementation, we tried to raise the bar, focus on results and improve communication and documentation. In addition, we focused on consolidation of our areas of strength: Leadership, Advocacy, Capacity building, working with government, Livelihood/Social Protection; and Monitoring and Evaluation.

The Niger Delta office continued to be the hub for the implementation of environment programme in the Niger Delta. The Northern office in Kebbi continued to expand as the hub for the implementation of our livelihood programme with potential for education work in the coming year. In the year under review, we opened an office in the North East region to respond to the challenges of the North East region.