The project – Achieving a healthy and sustainable environment in the Niger Delta is part of effort to restoring the social contract in the Niger Delta and particularly focused on the clean-up of Ogoni land and the Niger Delta region. The lobby and advocacy project engaged and consistently championed campaign for the clean-up of Ogoni land and the Niger Delta.
Intervention Projects
Key Achievements
The birthing of Journalist Against the Delay of Ogoni Clean-Up (JADOC). The body stepped up the discourse on the clean-up through writing of feature articles, documentary, radio commentaries and media advocacy – engaging top media organizations and executives in Abuja. JADOC has a life of its own.
Centre LSD collaboration with the National Oil Spill Detection and Regulatory Agency (NOSDRA) triggered a mutual push and support for the amendment of the NOSDRA Act which had been with the National Assembly -The Centre developed a position paper which was presented at the public hearing on the Act.
Centre LSD created a platform for interaction and harmonization of the Strategic Partners (SP) position on the ESHRIA-which was presented at the House Committee on Environment and Habitat public hearing on the review of the 1992 EIA Act in 2018.
Centre LSD in collaboration with CISLAC instituted an annual discourse on the clean-up of Ogoni land code named “National summit on Ogoni clean up” where they have consistently put the issues on the front burner for the Federal government.
Various communities and traditional rulers in Ogoni land have identified and see Centre LSD as a trusted ally in the struggle for the Clean-Up of Ogoni land. One of the Community leaders from Ogoni said – “If not for Centre LSD. HYPREP would not have come or remembered my community. Work is going on now in my community”
Stakeholders including government and its agencies, oil companies and even the communities have been influenced to take their roles forward through Centre LSD quarterly press briefing in accordance with the UNEP report.
The Honourable Minister for Environment alongside the Permanent Secretary, Director and top management of the Ministry addressed participants at the rally for the first time throughout the four years the Centre alongside other SP partners have engaged the Ministry on the Clean-up issue. The Centre LSD organized rally/road show on the clean-up of Ogoni land brought the change of narrative about.
HYPREP Project Coordinator who has never attended any CSO organized event outside the one organized by HYPREP, for the first time attended Centre LSD High level Policy Dialogue held in November 2019, where he committed to taking CSOs on a site visit to impacted site where remediation work is on-going for confirmation. The lived up to the commitment.
