Initiatives & Partnerships
In 2007, NDEBUMOG partnered with Actionaid-Nigeria through collaboration with CSAE, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and support from the DfID – Department for International Development (UK), in the context of the ‘Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth RPC’ to conduct a research on elections violence in Nigeria. NDEBUMOG also collaborated with DAI and USAID/REFORMS to conduct a training for the 18 LGAs in Cross River state. Through PLAC’s Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, NDEBUMOG monitored gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Cross River, Edo, Osun and Rivers state. NDEBUMOG also monitored the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria through PLAC. There was collaboration between NDEBUMOG and Office of the Special Assistant to the Governor of Rivers state on NEPAD for the training of Local Government officers on “Understanding Budgetary Implementation and Synergy for Effective Delivery of Thematic Goals” in 2012. ECOWAS also engaged NDEBUMOG during the launching of the second module of ECOWAS Warning and Response Network (ECOWARN) in Senegal, with United Nations, which engaged NDEBUMOG on “Governance Beyond 2015”. NDEBUMOG is collaboratively recognised by African Development Bank and has collaborated with the World Bank on developmental matters.
NDEBUMOG has collaborated with CSEA, ACEP, CDD, CSJ, Oxfam, and others, to conduct research, hence, we are considered as three in one organisation. That is, a pro-poor (grassroots) organisation, anticorruption institution and a research think tank. On the strength of this, NDEBUMOG was invited by the National Assembly to submit memorandums on critical matters, including, the Petroleum Industry (Governance) Bill and Budget Defence Hearings, etc. NDEBUMOG has provoked investigations by the National Assembly through fiscal intelligence. Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) at the Federal, States and Local Governments has engaged NDEBUMOG on capacity, collaborations or on fiscal governance issues. We have collaborated with OSIWA, RWI, NDI, IFES and others.
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!
Numerically speaking, NDEBUMOG has engaged with over 627 (state) government agencies in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Rivers state. As of December 2020, over 1,080 Local Governments officials benefited from fiscal governance knowledge through the Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group. Outside governmental beneficiaries, over 29, 433 participants benefitted from NDEBUMOG’s projects and programmes. Some of these were from Campaign Against Election Violence in Nigeria (CAEVIN), Deepening Expenditure Line Tracking for States and Local Governments in the Niger Delta (DELT4SLOG), Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in the Niger Delta (STAND), including, Financing for Development (F4D)- Strategic Partnership Program (SPP). NDEBUMOG provided technical implementation, collaborations, and partnerships for these programs. Indirectly, it is estimated that over 3 million people were impacted through these programs, activities, and interventions. Kebetkache Women Development Centre entered a technical partnership with NDEBUMOG in 2016. The technical partnership with Kebetkache was facilitated by Oxfam and lasted for 3 years. In moderate terms, over 3,000 people, mostly women, benefitted from this technical partnership in areas of livelihoods, shadow budgeting, basic economic literacy, and fiscal inclusion.
