By Ismail Auwal
Aminu Kano Center for Democratic Research and Training, Mambayya House, has trained over 40 Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) and Community Based Organisation (CBOs) in the last 12 months under the ‘Promoting Accountability and Anti-corruption through Behavior Change Approaches supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Project Director, MacArthur Foundation Project at Mambayya House, Professor Ismaila Zango while disclosing this at the 2nd biannual press conference of the project said these anti-corruption networks of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are working directly with 171 local organizations across different communities in Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states.
According to the Director the centre hassupported 11 anti-corruption networks in the last 12 months under the ‘Promoting Accountability and Anti-corruption through Behavior Change Approaches supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
He said, “The ‘Promoting Accountability and Anti-corruption through Behavior Change Approaches’ project objective is aimed at mobilizing and educating citizens to actively engage in activities that will strengthen social accountability and improve service delivery in local communities.”
“We adopted three strategies – skill building, collaboration, and gender equality and social inclusion to feature as pathways to achieving the strategic goal of the project which was crafted by the Foundation as “Reduced corruption through Nigeria-led efforts that strengthen accountability, transparency, and participation within the span of 10 to 15 years”.
Zango noted that the centre has developed stakeholders’ ability to conduct activities, and to carry out other complementary actions, including use of behavior change approaches, in their routine works on anti-corruption.
“We also build stakeholder partnerships and collaborations across and beyond grantees, in order to leverage and coordinate actions on corruption issues.”
“We equally encourage the use of gender equity and social inclusion lens in selecting beneficiaries, in order to build the capacity of our sub-grantees and other partners to adopt context-specific actions that broaden and deepen the inclusiveness of anti-corruption work in Nigeria as contained in “2021 ON Nigeria 2.0 Theory of Change” approved by the Foundation,” he said.
