NDEBUMOG & EITI
From inception of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (N-EITI) in Nigeria, NDEBUMOG ranks among pioneer organizations that engages crosscutting entities across Nigeria on EITI. We have partnered and collaborated with NEITI to organized, facilitates, and conducts audits’ remediation advocacies. NDEBUMOG equally analyzes extractive data from NEITI and interrogates information around fiscal governance realities. Institutionally, NDEBUMOG shall continue to engage with EITI’s processes to a stage, where Nigeria and other EITI countries shall reexamine, reappraise, and regauge the necessity of EITI as its concerns impact on fiscal governance and extractive justice to communities. Someday, the world will need to reconcile EITI’s information gathering from (vulnerable) developing countries and how such information is used by developed countries through a globalized EITI framework…
Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group was elected to NEITI’s-Civil Society Steering Committee in 2010. Later in 2011, the organization was elected as Civil Society Liaison Organization of NEITI/Head of Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (NEITI) Civil Society Steering Committee. A position that subsisted till 2012. NDEBUMOG’s representative was part of Nigeria’s delegation to the Paris EITI Conference in 2011. It was an event that the 1st EITI’s Validation for Nigeria was announced. Within this period, precisely in 2010, NDEBUMOG was elected to lead a mega (national)- Coalition for Accountability and Transparency in Extractive Industries, Forestry and Fisheries in Nigeria (CATEIFFN). The coalition’s membership included, Fisheries Society of Nigeria (FISON), Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN), et al. It was during NDEBUMOG’s headship of CATEIFFN that the end-to-end research on the character and nature of Nigeria’s extractive industry was unveiled at Yar’ Adua’s Centre, Abuja. The end-to-end (research publication) is (evidently) in the libraries of several Nigerian Universities. Upon completion of the first tenure of CATEIFFN’s leadership (2010/2011), NDEBUMOG was reelected (involuntarily) for a second tenure. NDEBUMOG’s management objected and resigned. It is on record that NDEBUMOG is a critical stakeholder in Nigeria’s EITI processes. A research into NEITI’s archives can validates this fact always!
We have supported several communities to develop and identify communal fiscal needs through Town Hall meetings, Focus Group Discussions and Fiscal Outreach Programs. We shall continue to do this to empower communities to identify their fiscal needs and ways of engaging governments and multilateral organizations to support communities to achieve their fiscal needs. Through this approach, achieved fiscal needs shall be communally own, be protected and shall be maintained against contractualized impositions and adulteration from unpredictable fiscal architecture of government or multilateral organizations.
Infrastructural Monitoring
Outside generic budget monitoring, NDEBUMOG pays special attention to infrastructural sustainability and depreciation tracking or allocational sensitivity. These are feeds into advocacies, community sensitizations for protection and ownership, sectoral budget intelligence, envelopes equity, policy briefs and specialized engagements with the government, such as, sector strategies and budget defence sessions geared at improving societal infrastructural needs and sustainability.
