As elections draw close - where are Nigerian CSOs in advocacy and policy?

From Nigeria Health Watch Tue Jun 3 2014, 10:00:00

We have offered our Tuesday blog this week to Florida Uzoaru, an independent public health consultant. She reflects on some tough questions about the advocacy role of civil society in the health space.

A little over a fortnight ago, I was invited to participate in a meeting with civil society organizations (CSOs) working on governance in Nigeria. It was organized by UNDP's Democratic Governance for Development Project. Through the course of my career in development, I had worked in a couple of international Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that work in the "governance" space and they have all had to deal with the Nigerian government in one way or the other. This was however, the first time in my career that I was attending such an event as an independent consultant, and not a representative of an organization whose interest I had to look out for, I could therefore look at things with some refreshing freedom of perspective. My specific role at the event was to assess if the involvement of Nigerian CSOs in advocacy ...

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