Voice To The 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.
Our work in Anambra State
Watch this short video describing how V2P successfully facilitated community driven development in Anambra
Our Focus
Active citizenship
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.
Empowerment
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.
Fostering citizen-state dialogue
Facilitating continuous dialogue and interaction between communities and their LGAs as communities advocate for local and state governments to be responsive to their demands.
Adaptive Learning
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.
Where we work
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.
Before V2P
THREE YEARS AFTER
Our Blog
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Apr
V2P project is supporting to enhance the voice and representation of women and other socially excluded groups…
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Apr
The introduction of the Voice to the People (V2P) project into Down quarters community in late 2016…
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Apr
‘I have the power to say no to negative things around me. I have started personalising…
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Apr
CBMs are individuals resident within the community who are responsible for monitoring and reporting the status…
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Apr
‘They learnt a lot, that government is their own and they should participate in whatever is…
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Mar
The Voice to the People (V2P) project piloted for two and a half years (July 2013-…
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Feb
The inclusion of citizens in the governing processes of a sovereign nation is crucial to achieving…
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Jan
Citizens’ engagement and participation in governance processes is critical for sustaining the development of any society….
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Jan
Through capacity-building trainings and support provided by V2P partners, Community Based Monitors (CBMs) are successfully engaging…
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Jan
V2P is creating platforms for communities to dialogue, raise their voices and demand their entitled rights…
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Jan
With the promise of new opportunities and renewed hope that the new year brings in, we…
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Dec
From a 3km road walk in Awka, Anambra state to a community radio show in Onitsha,…
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Nov
Fresh from a training of CSOs on Gender and Power for the extension phase of the…
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Oct
More communities in Nigeria are being positioned for sustainable community development as V2P extends into 24…
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Jun
The achievements and impact of Voice to the People (V2P) in Nigeria have been captured…
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Feb
When Oluchukwu Ikwune, 31, lost her husband in June 2015, she feared she would be subjected…
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Feb
The effects of V2P are reaching other communities in a ripple effect. Read this new case study…
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Feb
New mothers in Akwu-Ukwu community faced a number of challenges due to a lack of facilities…
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Dec
Tope Fashola, Governance Programme Manager at Christian Aid Nigeria writes of the successes of the V2P…
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Nov
Click here to read the new V2P blog A movement for change: Making governance work for community…
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Oct
The work done by V2P CBMs and other active citizens in engaging direct service providers (DSPs)…
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Oct
Chief Goddy Eze, Town Union Secretary of Oba community, Idemili South local government area (LGA), says…
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Oct
Backed by the town unions of eight communities, advocacy groups were formed during town hall meetings…
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Oct
V2P has supported 64 young women to join the Idikacho – Women in Governance (I-WIG) platform,…
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Oct
Two of the many ways V2P builds a movement for change is by increasing the participation…
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Sep
The stories of change contained in this booklet represent a snapshot of the impact of V2P….
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Aug
“I didn’t know it was possible for a community to be turned around development-wise in a…
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Jul
The ‘Visit Every Community’ drive, tagged as VEC is one of V2P’s strategy to promote accountability…
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Jun
V2P strengthens the quality of its radio engagement as it forms a radio listeners group of…
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Jun
A recent forum for marginalised communities was held to raise communities’ awareness of their human rights…
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Jun
This May to September planting season could mark the beginning of a period of significant agricultural…
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Jun
V2P partner the Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) Onitsha has supported eight LGAs to build…
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Jun
Nigeria held its fifth democratic presidential election on 28 and 29 March. V2P Programme Manager Temitope…
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Jun
Ahead of the presidential and National Assembly elections, V2P and the DFID-funded governance programme SAVI Anambra…
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May
After the emergence of a new national government in Nigeria, this issue of the V2P newsletter…
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Apr
Community members young and old, women and men, are beginning to see developments in local governance…
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Apr
How has an increase in women’s participation in decision making structures affected their day-to-day lives and…
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Mar
Lack of information and difficult channels of reporting have been identified through activities of the V2P…
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Mar
PRESS RELEASE 8TH MARCH, 2015 Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity: Making it Happen Anambra State, Nigeria…
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Feb
Join us for a twitter meet-up on the 6th of March as we mark this year’s…
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Feb
V2P partners have become members of the Tax Justice and Governance Platform Nigeria. This move reflects…
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Feb
Communities are increasingly using their charters of demand to drive development and address community needs. ‘We…
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Feb
Twelve traditional rulers from Anambra have signed a commitment register pledging to ‘join in the campaign…
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Feb
Dialogue between citizens and the state in Anambra received a boost as the House of Assembly…
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Feb
V2P partner JDPC Nnewi has launched a series of exclusive meetings for women and people with…
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Feb
Illegal taxes imposed by illicit tax collectors have finally stopped in Mgbakwu, a small community in…
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Jan
We bring you issue 4 of the V2P newsletter to start off the year. In this…
12
Dec
Do you want to know more about the work V2P is doing to increase women’s participation…
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Dec
The Community Empowerment Network (COMEN) of Ihiala (a network of community-based monitors) and more than 350…
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Dec
As the ‘Women in Governance – Idikacho’ network continues to grow in size and geographical coverage…
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Dec
An independent consultant commissioned by Christian Aid carried out a midterm evaluation of the V2P project…
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Dec
More than 450 community members across Anambra State have been using specially developed scorecards to rank…
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Nov
Voice to the People (V2P) and its partners have joined the global Tax Justice campaign which…
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Sep
Two groups that over the years have been excluded from community decision making structures and do…
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Aug
Voice to the People announces the Request for Application from suitable consultants or firms to conduct…
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Aug
V2P partner, Development in Practice (DiP) has been working with adolescent girls from 10 communities in…
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Aug
Voice to the People announces the Request for Application from suitable individuals or firms for the…
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Aug
The V2P innovation fund was designed as a sub-granting component of the project focusing on the…
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Aug
Read the latest issue of the Voice to the People newsletter by clicking on the link…
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Aug
People centred budgeting is about both the content of budgets and the process of formulating in…
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Jul
Voice to the People announces the Request for Application for the second phase of the innovation…
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Jun
Voice to the People partners have added their voices to the call for the government to…
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May
Read about the changes to lives and communities made in 2013 through Voice to the People…
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Apr
Analysis of the Anambra state budget for the last ten years revealed that from 2003 to…
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Apr
The advocacy and gender trainings for community members and the inclusion of women in all V2P…
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Apr
Read the latest issue of the Voice to the People newsletter by clicking on the link…
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Mar
This brief focuses on the weaknesses in Anambra State budgets and spending for the period 2003…
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Feb
V2P partner JDPC Onitsha has supported the formation of a network of women keen to contest…
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Feb
‘Formerly, women didn’t have a voice, but this time around women are coming out very well,’…
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Feb
‘It is my civic responsibility to vote the candidate of my choice,’ says Florence Asomugha as…
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Jan
‘We stand in the gap between the community and the government, we are the watchtower of…
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Dec
V2P community-based partners, the Justice Development and Peace Commissions (JDPC) of Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha dioceses…
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Dec
Read the first issue of the Voice to the People newsletter by clicking on the link…
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Dec
A recent meeting in the Awka North local government area was a solid step towards the…
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Dec
On December 1, Willie Obiano, the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, was declared winner in the…
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Nov
V2P partner JDPC Awka met with the head of a local government administration (LGA) as part…
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Nov
The baseline report of the Voice to the People project has been shared with stakeholders from…
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Oct
Twenty-two priests of the Catholic Diocese of Awka have been learning more about the Voice to…
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Oct
Community women, female political leaders and would-be election candidates have attended a forum aimed at fostering…
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Oct
Gender and challenging the established roles of people in society, especially women, young people, and people…
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Oct
Power dynamics and how to engage with important stakeholders at different levels was the focus of…
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Jul
Voice to the People (V2P), a new programme supporting vulnerable communities in Nigeria to hold state…
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