Executive Summary

The African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organisation established in 2010 to build strategic leadership for sustainable development in Africa (See www.centrelsd.org). The Centre was formally registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on January 17, 2010 with registration number CAC/IT/No. 36563.
The idea and impetus to set up the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development (Centre LSD) was borne out of the commitment of over three decades working for the transformation of Africa. The founding members of the board of trustees and international advisory council have been involved in one form of work or the other to transform Africa. Our cumulative experience makes it clear to us that there are three fundamental challenges to Africa’s development namely:
1. Absence of a dynamic, strategic and visionary leadership. 2. Absence of or inappropriate strategies and
3. Inappropriate development approaches.
Centre LSD accordingly focused and designed its programmes to contribute to resolving the challenges. The Centre LSD Leadership School which holds every third Saturday of the month is one of such efforts. The once in a month convening was changed to twice, first and third Saturdays from the 10th set as a result of the increasing interest of citizens to be trained on the subject matter. Annexes of the school are presently in Warri, Delta State, Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Benin City, Edo State. The Centre has done appreciable work on strategy and is putting effort at redefining the development approaches in the continent through its development programmes including;

a) Enhancing citizens participation in the budget process.
b) Community-Led Total Sanitation project with Communities attaining Open Defecation Free (ODF) status.
c) Capacity building for youth in the Niger Delta
d) Voice and accountability interventions.
e) Promoting transparency and accountability in the extractive sector in Nigeria.
f) Nutrition and livelihood interventions including cash transfer to graduate the poor from poverty.