Strategic Advocacy Projects

The aim of this initiative is to design specific interventions to tackle specific human rights, rule of law, anticorruption and good governance issues. Our advocacy strategic interventions include:

  • Soro Soke Project: Ending Police Brutality and Abuse of Human Rights of Youths in the Southeast(closed) – Funded by VOICE

This project brought together stakeholders in community policing and youth development including police chiefs, commissioners for youth, human rights agencies and religious leaders from across the five Southeast states – Imo, Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi – to explore ways of ending police brutality and abuse of the rights of youths in Southeast, Nigeria. 

95 youths were empowered as human rights anchors committed to fighting abuse of the right of youths in their communities. The youth anchors facilitated the release of 70 youths detained unjustly in Aba during the #EndSars protest.

  •  The Local Government Good Governance Monitor Project (closed) – Funded by OSIWA

This project empowered 195 youths in Southeast Nigeria to monitor the delivery of primary education and health by local governments in Southeast Nigeria.

The 195 youths visited over 1,500 primary schools and 800 primary healthcare centers to ascertain the status of these primary education and healthcare centers. They also visited 95 Local Government offices to ascertain their roles toward the delivery of quality, affordable and inclusive primary healthcare and education in their LGAs.

These youths held advocacy town hall meetings with the LGA officials to bring their attention to the dire need of sustainable solutions to the many issues discovered in the primary education and healthcare systems. The project produced a status report of primary education and healthcare delivery in the Southeast.

The report was disseminated over 2000 individuals, including government, activists, religious and traditional leaders, development organizations, and other stakeholders.