Date of Implementation: The Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group started the implementation of Fair for All program in January 2021 to date. The expected end of the program is December 2025.

Total Number of Beneficiaries: 1,010 directly and over 101,000 indirectly, with women as the dominant beneficiaries.

NDEBUMOG’s 30 women groups has been structurally and programmatically bridged sustainably with Nigeria Civic Space Protection Alliance that was unveiled and created during the Year 2 of the Fair for All Program.

The 30 women Shadow Budget Groups are namely:

1. Port Harcourt City
2. Etche
3. Igwuruta
4. Oyigbo
5. Akpor
6. Igwuruta
7. Enugu Municipality
8. Udi
9. Udenu
10. Awgu
11. Aninri
12. Nsukka
13. Uruan
14. Uyo
15. Abak
16. Oruk Anam
17. Essien Udim
18. Ikot Ekpene
19. Nsit Ubium
20. Obot Akara
21. Ibesikpo Asutan
22. Oron
23. Itu
24. Eleme
25. Gokana
26. Yenagoa
27. Asaba
28. Agbor
29. Ozoro
30. Obiaruku

*Note: 19 among the 30 abovementioned groups have a subsidiary legal registration, while there are over 600 informal members. Incubated groups that may be inaugurated soon, eventually bringing to a total of 40 chapters:

• Onna
• Ika
• Nsit Ibom
• Ikot Abasi
• Urue Offong/Uruko
• Emouha
• Ahoada
• Ekeremor
• Sagbama

Women Shadow Budget website could be access via https://affiliates.nigerdeltabudget.org/

NDEBUMOG works in the following areas:

• Extractive value chain
• Agricultural livelihood
• Tracking of public budget for clustering community’s empowerment and economic opportunities
• Climate justice for women in extractives

NDEBUMOG works with the following:

1. Oxfam Nigeria
2. ActionAid Nigeria
3. Nigeria Civic Space Protection Alliance
4. National Assembly (National Parliament)
5. Traditional Rulers
6. State Governments
7. JDPC, Enugu

• Economic inclusion
• Fiscal equity
• Expanding knowledge based in agricultural value chain
• Climate justice for women in extractives
• Human rights protection
• Self-empowerment

Women have been encouraged to deepen their understanding of Nigeria’s fiscal engineering and opportunities for economic opportunities through governmental budget tracking by 30 affiliated shadow budget groups, which promotes democratic inclusion, economic equality, social equity, and poverty reduction through knowledge of economic opportunities (in value chains) available in governments’ annual blueprints and budget.

Learn more about these initiatives:

• F4A Year 2 Tracked FGN Capital Projects and Programmes by Affiliates
• F4A Year 3 Tracked FGN Capital Projects and Programmes by Affiliates

Fiscal, cultural, and traditional exclusion, among others.

• Gradually creating cultural barrier breakers through traditional settings; and
• Realization of huge knowledge gap, economically against women.

Opportunities currently being implemented to address challenges to promote women’s economic empowerment in the project

We have projected advocacy campaigns in year 3 and 4.

Opportunities in the future to promote women empowerment and visibility of women in your projects/F4A Programme

We have mainstreamed women economic inclusion and civic space protection into these affiliates subsisting operations, with (2) representatives of these groups elected to the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) of Nigeria Civic Space Protection Alliance. Climate Justice for women in extractives in another thematic dimension that we have added.

Best practices

Though that was outside the F4A Project, one of our proudest achievement is facilitating the creation of Bayelsa State Women Economic Inclusion Committee on the Petroleum Industry Act. See more here: https://www.nigerdeltabudget.org/pias-30-campaign-advocacy-news/

This was made possible through the following campaigns. Learn more here:

• Petroleum Industry Act’s 30% Campaign Advocacy Materials
• Petroleum Industry Act’s 30% Campaign Advocacy Testimonies

In line with our strategic plan, strategic direction and objectives, we are targeting to establish 50 to 100 of these women groups by year 2030, elevate their economic mobilization ability for self-realization towards economic mobility, whilst civic space alliance, which they are in subsisting membership.

This shall protect human rights of its members. We also hope to connect these groups with opportunities in organizations, such as, African Development Bank, African Union, among others. Some of them were recently enlisted on courses of UNODC on women’s human rights and security, which we intend to scale up, with another batch commencing their own batch’s training with UNODC, including, providing educational opportunities and scholarships, like we did with University of Oxford, University of Texas, and others.

Even after F4A in 2025, we will look for opportunities that are fiscally engineered through contractual opportunities in the Oil and Gas sector through Nigeria’s Local Content Act, which we intend to use as a tool for education of several women on how to access business opportunities in Nigeria’s extractive value chain, revolving tracking of public expenditure, etc. There are other plans that are in incubated by our think-tank, which will be unveiled soon.

Full name: Mfon Bassey
Position: Manager, Internal Control Department
Organization: Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group
Email address: mfon-bassey@nigerdeltabudget.org

Full name: Sabena Uju Igweani
Position: Women Matters Advisor/Finance Associate
Organization: Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group
Email address: sabena@nigerdeltabudget.org

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