The Environmental Sustainability and Resilience programme addresses environmental challenges, encourages climate resilience, and advocates for sustainable environmental policies.
Accountable and transparent management of our natural resources, particuarly the oil and gas sector, is critical to good governance and national development. The Oil Revenue Tracking Initiative (ORTI) provides factual and credible information on issues surrounding Nigeria’s oil resource governance and engages citizens and stakeholders to promote sustainable policy making.
Supported by The Facility for Oil Sector Transparency and Reform in Nigeria (FOSTER), our policy advocacy campaign on savings and stabilization mechanisms in Nigeria seeks to further reform governance in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector by mobilizing citizens to demand accountability.
Despite being the largest producer and exporter of petroleum in Africa and one of the ten largest producers in the world, Nigeria has failed to transform decades of oil earnings into sustainable development. In the period spanning 1970 to 2014, Nigeria wasted five oil booms – earning a conservative estimate of a trillion dollars in oil revenue but making no significant savings. These earnings have also not translated to lasting or productive capital through human development, infrastructure and institution building. Read More...