Five issues.
One theory of change.
Despite Africa's demographic advantage and unprecedented access to knowledge, public policy and resource governance remain weak, exclusionary, and insufficiently evidence-based. We work to change that.
Programme directory
Tax and Development
Making taxation fairer, more transparent, and more accountable to the people who pay it.
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Local Philanthropy
Building infrastructures for local giving, community-led development and social investments.
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Debt and Development
Opening up how governments borrow, spend, and repay — so citizens can hold them accountable.
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Citizen Engagement
Equipping citizens, media, and civil society to participate meaningfully in governance.
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Four pathways
to change
All five programmes operate across four interconnected pathways. Progress on any one depends on progress on all.
Knowledge generation & policy intelligence
Ensuring public policies and development plans are better informed by evidence and context-specific analysis.
Institutional capacity strengthening
Ensuring institutions demonstrate improved competence, coordination, and effectiveness in policy design and implementation.
Citizen engagement & civic empowerment
Ensuring citizens are more capable, organised, and confident in engaging public institutions and influencing governance outcomes.
Accountability, ethics & public resource governance
Ensuring public institutions become more transparent, accountable, and responsive to citizen needs.
Inclusion. Rights. Accountability.
Throughout our work, we promote inclusion, rights-based approaches and accountability to remain trusted, effective, and responsive — and to make sure the impact of our interventions is evident in the lives of Nigerians, communities, institutions and processes.
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