CISLAC Reviews SCALE Project To Strengthen Extractive Industry Transparency

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has x-ray its project conceived within the framework of the Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE), aimed to educate the members of the public on how much progress has been made with regards to transparency in Nigeria’s extractive industry. 

With support from USAID and implemented by Palladium, the learning event focused the accountability in cluster comprising ten partner organisations to measure issues majorly on the journey towards Nigeria’s beneficial ownership disclosure reforms, situated within the following frameworks: the implementation of the third National Action Plans (NAP III) of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) standards; the provisions of the Petroleum Industries Act 2021 and within the stipulated objectives of the project.

The program manager of CISLAC, Chinedu Bassey while speaking at the Learning event said that the cluster seeks to push for effectiveness, transparency and accountability in the use of the revenue that accrue from the extractive sector in Nigeria.

He said, “What we are doing mostly is to create awareness about all the existing initiatives, create a campaign around them, and sensitise the public to lend their voices, because we believe that when a critical mass of voices are speaking about an issue, it has that effect of getting the state actors or responsible institutions to take the right actions, for the benefit of the citizens who are actually the rightful owners of these resources. 

This project presents an opportunity for us as one of the auspices for which we want to make sure that we throw this information out to the open and elicit citizens’ opinions and push towards having government make good of what they committed to doing”.