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 fourth annual report since the centre started operation and the strategic focus for the year is strategic repositioning. The strategic focus for the year include among other things finalizing the strategic plan, improving the systems and policies and promoting organizational effectiveness especially in terms of capacity, competence, capability, culture, creativity and control. During the year under review, communication between the headquarter office in Abuja and the Niger Delta office was improved. The Niger Delta office continued to be the hub for the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation of MDG projects in Delta State. Management of internal and external communication was improved. The capacity of staff on leadership, peace and security, election monitoring, entrepreneurship, project management, advocacy and campaigns, and tax advocacy was built.