Centre for Democracy and Development (Nigeria)

Established in 1999, the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) is one of Nigeria’s foremost nonprofit organizations. CDD is committed to providing independent, nonpartisan approaches to capacity building, policy development, advocacy, and research on democratic governance, human rights, and security issues. The previous award to CDD supported the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with intelligence gathering and data analysis, and upgraded the EFCC’s Academy with state-of-the art equipment and technology. It also supported the Special Control Unit on Money Laundering (SCUML), a department within the EFCC, to improve its effectiveness by significantly accelerating completion of the assessment, registration, and designation of over 15,000 backlogged applications from non-financial institutions. As a result, it now takes only 48 hours (as opposed to 60 days) for SCUML to process certificates. CDD also supported the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) to upgrade its Crime Records Information Management System. This allowed NFIU to collect and share the operational data of suspected and convicted criminals more efficiently. With this final award, CDD consolidates and institutionalizes the efficiency, operational effectiveness, and collaboration of national and sub-national anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) through sub-granting. It continues to strengthen the operational effectiveness of the ACAs by digitizing their processes and deploying information, communication, and technology tools to support timely and accurate intelligence gathering. It also strengthens cooperation among the ACAs to prevent, detect, track, and effectively prosecute high-profile corruption cases. The award is expected to strengthen transparency, promote accountability, and reduce corruption in Nigeria.

Established in 1999,  Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) is a Nigerian nonprofit organization promoting democracy, governance, human security, and people-centered development. This award promotes vaccine uptake in Nigeria, especially among vulnerable populations, through risk communication and countering misinformation and disinformation. It is fact-checking misinformation and disinformation on the COVID-19 virus and building trust using multimedia, including social media, radio, and newspapers, in English and local languages. It is mapping and using a “social listening” approach to collect information on rumors and myths circulating in key groups and geographies and creating content that resonates with them using appropriate media and languages. CDD is working with key state and non-state stakeholders at national and sub-national levels, including the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 risk communication, National Orientation Agency, and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, and coordinating with other groups doing similar work in Nigeria.  The award contributes to the Foundation’s goal of improving access to resources for immediate health-related challenges while simultaneously advancing new models, policies, and infrastructure for greater public health equity and resilience in the future.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) is an independent nonprofit organization, focused on research and advocacy to deepen democracy in West Africa. CDD proposes to expand its fact-checking operations on the COVID-19 pandemic, to include widely spoken local languages in Nigeria. At the end of the project, CDD expects to build a team of fact checkers that can be deployed for other misinformation and disinformation projects.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD)  is a non-governmental organization working on democratic governance, human rights, criminal justice reform and anti-corruption in Nigeria. This grant will enable grantees of the Foundation’s Criminal Justice Reform Cohort to travel to Brisbane, Australia to participate in a Conference organized by the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law on the theme: Bribery and Corruption-Modern Approaches to an Eternal Problem. The conference is intended to sharpen the knowledge of participants by educating them on modern approaches to the problem of bribery and corruption. These lessons will improve the cohort’s program implementation efforts.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) is one of Nigeria’s foremost nonprofit organizations, and a long-standing grantee of the Foundation. CDD was founded in 1997 to provide independent, nonpartisan approaches to capacity building, policy development, advocacy, and research on democratic governance, human rights, and security issues. This award enables CDD to work with a minimum of five key public finance oversight and accountability bodies, including the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Office of the Auditor General, the Presidential Initiative for Continuous Audit (PICA), the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), and others, to strengthen public accountability mechanisms and improve collaboration with non-state transparency and accountability groups involved in anti-corruption efforts. CDD’s work supports systems improvement in the target agencies with a mandate to enhance integrity and accountability through training, administrative and operational reforms, peer learning, and targeted assistance to empower and insulate change champions. The support to EFCC, ICPC, and NFIU improves forensic infrastructure, and redresses the problems of poor evidence gathering. By fostering collaboration and coordination among leadership of the target anti-corruption agencies, and by promoting collaboration between them and civil society actors, CDD expects to bolster transparency, accountability and corruption efforts.