Training for Local Government Areas in Cross Rivers State

In November 2006, NDEBUMOG conducted a capacity enhancement training on “Procurement Due Process” for Local Government officers across 18 Local Government Areas in Cross River State. This was in line with NDEBUMOG’s commitment for responsive fiscal governance. The event was organized in collaboration with the (then) Budget Monitoring & Price Intelligence Unit (BMPIU), now refers to as Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP)-State House, Abuja, Cross River State Planning Commission, together with the Local Government Service Commission. Support for this training was provided by United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID)-REFORMS Program. It was the first of its kind in Cross River State by a civil society organization as of 2006. In addition, through partnership with Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs (OSSAP-MDGs), NDEBUMOG collaborated with the Budget Office of the Federation (BOF) to conduct a training on “Budgeting for MDGs in the Niger Delta” for MDAs across the region. This was with support from National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) at Calabar in 2007. MDGs Line Ministries across the six south-south states participated. This workshop resulted in another collaboration between Bayelsa and Cross River state government for capacity sharing on Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF).


Sub- nationally, NDEBUMOG has engaged over 627 (state) government agencies in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Rivers state. As at 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, over 3 million people were impacted. 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. Over 3,000 people, mostly women, benefitted from this technical partnership in areas of livelihoods, shadow budgeting, basic economic literacy, and fiscal inclusion.

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