SDN received recognition for its work on the Oil Spill Monitor and Gas Flare Tracker digital mapping platforms in November after coming second in the HiiL Innovating Justice awards at the Hague.
The collapse of plans to distribute voters cards to several of the largest states (including Rivers) in the first week of December amounted to nothing less than a debacle. The exercise was postponed in most states at just 24 hours notice.
SDN, in collaboration with Dawn in the Creeks and CCADA, has been running a number of roadshows over the previous months in the Niger Delta to mobilise communities against violence.
The role of the media in empowering citizens to fight corruption can never be over emphasized.
Young combatants who handed their guns over to the government in 2009 say oil-soaked corruption and inequality are pushing the next generation back toward bloodshed.
This report addresses the complexity of civil litigation for compensation for oil pollution damage in the Niger Delta, and calls for the creation of a
Hot on the heels of the launch of the Gas Flare Tracker in Abuja in November, the Nigerian Department for Petroleum Resources decides to drop all fines for gas flaring in Nigeria. How, might we ask, is this supposed to act as an incentive to stop gas flaring, as the DPR claims it will?
As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the election process, the SDN elections team has staged a live radio town hall in Port Harcourt on
This accompanying paper to the Gas Flare Tracker outlines how industry, regulators and Civil Society can make the powerful case for ending gas flaring in Nigeria and converting this useful gas into power that addresses the countries acute energy shortages.
October 16, 2014 marked the beginning of another small successful milestone for SDN in the ongoing journey towards a process of reconciliation and peace following the conflict in Rumuekpe.
On the 13th of October 2014, the head of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) in charge of Rivers and Bayelsa together with three other staff of the commission paid a visit to SDN Nigeria office.
Nigeria’s oil spill compensation system is broken. Individuals and communities whose lives have been ruined by oil spills wait years for payments which often never come.
On a recent visit to Kpite by SDN to carry out a Town Hall meeting on the upcoming elections, SDN staff were thanked by the Paramount Ruler for chosing his community as part of the STAND project back in 2010. From SDN’s Timipere Felix in Port Harcourt:
SDN staff in Port Harcourt have been visiting local communities to facilitate participatory discussions on political participation, gender inclusion, mandate protection, and mitigation of electoral violence as part of it’s MacArthur Election project. Timipere Felix reports:
This report, which presents research on ‘New Compensation Rates and Processes in Nigeria’, was facilitated by Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) with funding from the Dutch
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