PROMAD Infotech Foundation, under its social accountability and service delivery initiative FollowTheProjects, proudly announces a new project in Nasarawa State.
The project, Strengthening Participation, Accountability and Transparency in States Capital Project (SPATS) is a landmark initiative that aims to foster civic participation and empower young people with social accountability skills to demand participatory and accountable governance within the state.
The project, supported through WYDE Civic Engagement Project by the Kofi Annan Foundation (KAF); European Partnership for Democracy (EPD); Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD); the Oslo Center and funded by the European Union (EU) is designed to improve project and procurement transparency and accountability through strengthening citizens’ oversight of subnational institutions implementing public projects in Nigeria with Nasarawa State as a pilot.
“We designed the project to prioritise capacity-building for young people as well as grassroots community stakeholders to perform oversights, report findings and engage to improve the delivery of states’ capital projects.
“During the project, a social accountability fellowship will be held to empower 13 young men and women, including persons with disabilities (PWDs) from the 13 local government areas in Nasarawa State.
“PROMAD will also conduct a human-centred design engagement for the opportunity to learn from the youth, local stakeholders and the government to complement the building of our social accountability platform for FollowTheProjects and the redesign of our www.grap.org.ng platform for community needs assessment to influence participatory budgeting in the subnational level,” the statement added.
Through these efforts and advocacies with state agencies, PROMAD will create an atmosphere that encourages the voices of the citizens to be heard and their needs to be addressed by the government.
