Bill Gates’ visit to Nigeria this week is both important and significant. His visit precedes that of Malala Yousafzai and other global figures scheduled to be in the country next month. Bill is therefore the first global development leader to visit Nigeria under the new leadership of President Tinubu’s administration. Bill Gates’ commitment to Nigeria’s […]
Capacity strengthening, when combined with unrestricted support and funding for activity implementation, is the gold standard in localisation. The Sustainability Centre, Lagos Business School and the development Research and Projects Center are two mission driven local non-profit Nigerian organisations working to strengthen the capacity of Nigerian civil society organisations as their core mandate.
The Sustainability Centre, Lagos Business School conducted in-person and virtual capacity strengthening events for PAS CSOs and followed up to assess the impact of trainings by engaging recipients of the CSOs advocacy encounters in government. The SC/LBS learned that policy makers acquired a new respect for CSOs when finding themselves on the receiving end of high-powered evidence informed advocacy by PAS CSOs.
As Bill Gates listens, learns and interacts with innovators, students and change agents during his 2023 visit it is important to know that he is doing so within an ecosystem strengthened by a deep investment in sustainable development of indigenous civil society organizations in Nigeria. Catalytic non-profits such as the Sustainability Center, Lagos Business School and the development Research and Projects Center are few in Nigeria’s development space.
is with the Lagos Business School,while Judith Ann Walker is with dRPC. The authors can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] respectively.
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