“The British Council has been present in Nigeria for over 75 years building trust and understanding through our innovative work in the art and education, English exams, society, peacebuilding and gender equality”
~ Lucy Pearson Country Director @ngBritish
“We are privileged to be the organisation managing the implementation of the European Union funded Agents for Citizens-Driven Transformation (ACT) Programme"
“A reformed and more enabling regulatory environment will improve compliance and lead to sustainable civil society structures and institutions.This would ultimately enable CSOs to play their role as independent partners in development more efficiently.”
“This conference is an opportunity to share ideas on the civil society regulatory environment at the both the national and subnational level as well as aspects of self-regulation for the sector.”
“It takes a collaborative effort of all stakeholders; government, civil society, private sector and international partners to make the operational environment more enabling for CSOs to act and actors to thrive for the benefit of the public.”
“We do hope that the collaboration not only begins and continues in this room over the next 3 days, but goes beyond the conference; and these conversations initiated in the next 3 days, ignite opportunities for further collaboration in the sector.” #CSOConf22 #CivicAction
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“Regulating certain aspects of the operations of civil society organisations is critical to public trust and confidence in our sector.”
~Oluseyi Oyebisi, Executive Director, Nigeria Network of NGOS (NNNGO) represented by Ms Crystal Chigbu @Xrystalc ED, @theirede #CSOConf22
“As a sector, we exist to do good, this is what our supporters, donors and the public expect of us, part of doing this good is also not doing bad as it abuses public trust. It is the role of regulation to prevent us from doing this badly.”
Ambassador, European Union Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS @SamuelaIsopiEU represented by Deputy Ambassador - Mr Alexandre Borges Gomes
“The conference is timely because the elections are coming and it is a good time to press on candidates; #CSOConf22
it’s not just getting elected that matters, it is to think about what’s going to come afterward once they do get the job. Also for you to see what you want from them and try to press upon them that they have those concerns of yours in their program.” #CSOConf22 #CivicAction
“One of the aims of the ACT programme is to bring everybody together; legislators, regulators, CSOs and others; and I think this conference is another opportunity to do this.”