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Project Details - Coalitions for Change (C4C) 2007-2010| Project: | Coalitions for Change (C4C) 2007-2010 | Client: | DFID | | Country: | Nigeria | Status: | ACTIVE | | Location: | Abuja | Period: | 3 years | | Overview: | HTSPE has been awarded the contract to manage the large DFID-funded ‘Coalitions for Change’ programme in Nigeria. This bold and innovative programme takes an issue-based approach to improving Nigeria’s capacity to meet the Millennium Development Goals by institutional change within government to promote accountability and reduce mismanagement of public revenues.
The Coalitions for Change Programme (C4C) is a direct response to DFID Nigeria’s Drivers of Change (DoC) analysis which argued, amongst other things, that individuals and organisations – ‘agents’ – acting on their own would be hard-pressed to drive meaningful long-term change. In tackling the fundamental constraints to change in Nigeria DoC suggests an approach that identifies and supports coalitions of interest across civil society, government, the private sector and the media. Such coalitions should be supported to work on issues that engage their stakeholders and that have the potential to lead to institutional change.
C4C is DFID Nigeria’s main vehicle for supporting and testing this new and innovative ‘issues-based approach’ (IBA) to development. It will develop and implement a series of specific issue-based projects (IBPs). These will in turn drive change in the institutions – rules and norms as distinct from organisations – that sustain two of the principal constraints to Nigeria’s achievement of the MDGs: the mismanagement of public revenues; and weak formal accountability.
C4C is a national programme and will support campaigns and coalitions addressing national issues. It may also support coalitions that have a specifically regional or multi-state focus.
The programme is very much in line with Nigeria’s poverty reduction strategy (PRS), the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS), which argues that changing the way government works is fundamental to pro-poor change. NEEDS recognises that this cannot be achieved through traditional technocratic approaches alone. In talking of ‘social charters’ and of ‘empowering people’ NEEDS highlights the requirement for initiatives like C4C that strengthen citizen’s voice and apply constructive pressure on government. By working with issues-based coalitions C4C will aim to connect supply-side governance reforms with popular demands for change.
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