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 change 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 sixth annual report since the Centre started operation and the strategic focus for the year is Building High Organizational Culture. The strategic focus for the year is to create the right strategy, provide committed leadership who can clearly communicate throughout the organization, implement flexible structures and processes to maintain adaptability to achieve organizational goals, recruit and retain the right people, and provide the technology and learning to help them succeed while implementing ways for measurement and evaluation of success.
The Niger Delta office continued to be the hub for the implementation of environment programme in the Niger Delta and implementation of the MacArthur supported programme on promoting credible, free and fair elections in the Niger Delta. The Northern office in Kebbi was expanded as the hub for the implementation of our livelihood programme.