Voice To The People
Making Governance Work for Poor and Marginalised People
Making Governance Work for Poor and Marginalised People
Voice to the People (V2P) is a good governance programme supporting communities in Kaduna state and the Southeast region of Nigeria to take ownership of their own development by raising their voices to demand the rights and services to which they are entitled, driving accountability among their leaders and taking part in the decision-making processes that affect their lives. Funded by UK aid, V2P began in Anambra state in 2013 and worked directly with more than 85,000 people while indirectly reaching 2.5 million. Its remarkable achievements in supporting communities to tackle the high levels of poverty through the demand for improved social services for poor and excluded groups led to is extension into the rest of the Southeast region and Kaduna state in 2016.
Improving citizens’ awareness of rights and responsibilities as well as the skills, organisation and confidence of communities and marginalised groups to express community development priorities and monitor their delivery.
Enhancing communities’ ‘power to’ influence positive social change through training, mentoring and support to enable them to identify, advocate on and monitor their own priorities, while ensuring community decision-making is socially inclusive and cohesive.
Facilitating continuous dialogue and interaction between communities and their LGAs as communities advocate for local and state governments to be responsive to their demands.
Producing high quality research on V2P best practices and using documented lessons learnt to facilitate adaptation of community-led good governance programming in different contexts within the country.
We are currently working in all 21 LGAs of Anambra state, expanding from the initial phase of the project in which we worked in 12 LGAs in the state. Using a hub approach, we are also working in the rest of the South-eastern states, with a hub based in Enugu to spread more widely and replicate the successes of the project. The V2P model is also being replicated in Kaduna state, taking into considerations the key changes in the context of operation.
Our states of implementation are Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, Kaduna.