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Skill building
workshops for parliamentary staffs
One of the various
projects FNF is collaborating with “Constitutional Rights Project”
(CRP) is the “Parliamentary Staffs Skill Building Workshop”. At the
workshop, participants, drawn from a particular state house of
assembly, are introduced into the skills of efficient parliamentary
support, bill drafting, budgeting and public hearing. The concept of
decentralized economic and social development as a strategy for good
governance was also introduced. So far four (Plateau
State, Imo
State, Cross
River State and Abuja), out of
37 states (incl. the Federal
Capital Territory,
Abuja) of
Nigeria have benefited from such training. The programme has been
very successful that more states are now asking for such skill
building workshops while the ones earlier trained are requesting for
follow-up trainings with participants mixing from political staff,
civil service staff and permanent staff of the assembly together
with the politicians themselves. FNF is currently exploring joint
follow-up trainings with the assemblies jointly participating in the
provisions of logistics.
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Needs Assessment Workshop
Recently, FNF organized a “Needs
Assessment Workshop” with some NGOs working in the northern part of
Nigeria to assess the level of works done and to explore areas in
which FNF could intervene. The workshop had more than 10 NGOs in
attendance all coming to share progress of development works done,
obstacles and strength.
The workshop was facilitated by The
“Legal Research and Resource Development Centre” (LRRDC), one of FNF’s
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COSSAN
on the search for alternative way of funding SMEs
Two years ago, the Friedrich Naumann
Foundation had facilitated in the formation of an umbrella association
for the small and medium scale sector of the Nigerian economy.
Popularly called by its acronyms,
COSSAN, earlier in the year 2004 set out to explore ways of generating
micro credits for its members without necessarily being impeded by the
cumbersome government regulations, bank limitations and lack of
readiness to give and the high inflation and interest rates (35%).
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