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MOBILISING FORDEVELOPMENT

INCLUSIVE

ACTION

FOR

BETTER

SERVICES

Isse 1 Jl 2013

THE NEWSLETTER OF MOBILISING FOR DEVELOPMENT

650,000people

30,000adolescent girls

270communities

M4D will help spport

in

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Inside this isse:

Introdcing M4D

page 3

Chnge

A fresh approach

page 5

Innovte

The secret of success

page 6

Inclsion

Supporting adolescent girls

page 7

Spotlight

States that innovate

page 10

Plus lots more...


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About usMobilising for Development (M4D) is a pioneering

ve-year governance programme in Northern Nigeria,

funded by the UK Department for International

Development (DFID). M4D aims to contribute tothe achievement of the Millennium Development

Goals (MDGs) by improving equitable access to

services, local and state level accountability and by

transforming the relationship between communities,

service providers and policy makers.

By working together on issues of shared interest

and convergence - using these as a springboard

for collective action for change - M4D will catalyse

improvements in existing services, nurture innovation

and promote and expand engagement and accountability.

Uniquely, M4D will strengthen the capacity ofcommunities to demand better services, and support

policy makers and service providers to respond, with

a special focus on giving excluded groups, especially

adolescent girls and people with disabilities, a voice

in decision making. M4D will nurture new and better-

t approaches and share successes and lessons with

stakeholders across Nigeria.

Working in nine local government areas in three

northern Nigerian states (Jigawa, Kaduna and

Kano), M4D will support their efforts to increase

accountability and effectiveness and help overcome

barriers to delivering on education, health, water and

sanitation and improved livelihoods.

M4D is delivered by a consortium of international

and Nigerian organisations led by GRM International,

working in partnership at state and local level with

civil society and government.

ContentsWelcome 1

Introducing M4D 3

Where we will work 4

Change 5

Innovate 6Inclusion 7

Insights 9

Spotlight 10

Our partners 12

Meet the team 13

WelcomeWelcome to Catalyst, the rst newsletter of a dynamic

new programme Mobilising for Development (M4D).

In this issue, you will nd information about the

programmes objectives and ambitions, and learnabout the ndings from our initial research and

analysis in three Northern Nigerian states.

Access to an education, to basic healthcare, clean

drinking water, energy and an environment that enables

communities and individuals to pursue their livelihoods

are the foundations for reaching the Millennium

Development Goals. Where these services exist we

see communities and individuals ourish. Where they

are weak or non-existent the result is usually disease,

illiteracy, and poverty.

Though there has been progress, much remains

to be done to improve these services. Perceptions

of poor services and weak accountability have created

apathy and disenchantment. There are however

several promising initiatives that can serve as

a launch-pad to achieve the MDGs and recreate

a sense of belief and a can do, will do culture.

M4D aims to nurture action at a local level and

connect this to state and federal initiatives to build

on these positive shoots to bring about lasting change.

M4D is funded by DFID

and implemented

in partnershipwith the government

and peoples of Nigeria

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In the face of the challenges, M4D aims to nd issues

where there is common interest and convergence to

build collective action. We will focus on the following:

Strengthening nd sstining enggement nd

demndfor quality, equitable services is crucial.

Achieving outcomes that are real and tangible will

foster a sense of belief in the process and

rekindle the spark to make an effort.

Promoting inclsionwill enable previously

unheard voices to nd an ear and support

service providers to reach those really in need

by building them into planning processes. Our

focus on adolescent girls and people with

disabilities will also help us learn lessons thatcan be scaled up and outwards.

Spporting betterdelivery through capacity support

to policy makers and service providers to make

existing services work better and relationships

to be more accountable

Nrtring innovtionby nding new ways of

addressing service delivery and accountability

issues. Simply doing things the same old way is

unlikely to bring about transformation. By testingnew ideas and nurturing better-t approaches, we

hope that the programme can inspire action.

Shring wht works so tht it cn scle nd

spredby working with important stakeholders such

as state governments, the MDG Conditional Grant

Scheme and others to share our successes and

lessons to inspire others.

Thats the exciting yet daunting task ahead. We hope

that this newsletter inspires you to join our movement

for change - to collective action towards achieving

those Millennium Development Goals, and a better

future for every Nigerian.

Chrles abniTeam Leader, M4D


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Thats the vision for transformation

at the heart of the Mobilising for

Development (M4D) programmewhich now moves from the design

phase into implementation mode.

The programme, which is funded

until 2018, brings expertise and

support from a consortium of

Nigerian and international agencies

and from within communities and

international best practice

to encourage collective action and

to design inclusive basic services

that are proven to work.Its bold because it has to be,

says team leader, Charles Abani.

M4D is not about incremental

change. It is about nding

breakthrough approaches and

developing the critical mass for

change and using the energy

and results to spread better basic

services far and wide.

Over the last nine months, M4D

has been assessing and evaluatingthe issues and entry points for

increasing access to services and

accountability for ordinary people.

It has met with a positive response

from all sides. Whilst recognising

the challenges, policy and

decision makers are committed to

improvement and individuals and

communities remain enthusiastic

about participation and overcoming

exclusion.

Were at an exciting point in the

life of the programme, continued

Charles. The preparation has

been done and now it is time to get

things moving. We all want to see

positive change happen quickly,because the successes of M4D

will, as much as anything else,

rest on creating momentum and

excitement in what is possible. By

getting this right, M4D can have

a lasting impact on the way basic

services are improved in Nigeria

and further aeld.

The MDGs

Achieving the eight Millennium

Development Goals set by the

United Nations for 2015 relies

on the delivery of equitable basic

services. M4D is designed to

support and fast track Nigerias

progress towards achieving the

MDGs and beyond. It focuses

on the four thematic areas of

Education, Health, Water and

Sanitation and Livelihoods.

The Governments own

assessment of the countrys

performance in meeting the MDGs

reects a mixed picture. Real

progress is being made, and for

each MDG there is a positive

story to be told. However there

are huge areas for improvement

Northern Nigeria has some of

the worst human development

indicators of anywhere in the world.The situation is even worse for

excluded groups in this region.

The programme will both support

and leverage the Nigerian

Governments ground-breakingnationwide MDG Conditional Grant

Scheme (MDG/CGS). M4D will

support the use of participatory and

community-based approaches to

planning and monitoring projects.

It has a small grants pool of its own

which will be used to foster the

process incentivising, innovating,

and supporting practice to

institutionalise ways that work well

at local level.While the 2015 MDGs are a

rallying point, M4D is thinking well

beyond that date. Our focus is on

supporting sustainable approaches

to addressing services and

accountability issues at local level.

The programme and its partners

are already taking part in post-

MDG debates in order to shape its

development in response to the

emerging agenda.

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M4D sttesM4D will work in 270 communities

across three Northern Nigeria

states: Kano State, Kaduna State

and Jigawa State. The programme

will be co-ordinated centrally from

a head ofce in Kano but will also

have state ofces in Dutse and

Kaduna.

M4D will work in nine Local

Government Areas (LGAs) weare in the nal stages of jointly

selecting these with stakeholders

against criteria.

The rst LGAs selected to pilot the

programme are:

KaNOGarun Malam LGA

KaDuNa

Kudan and Kachia LGAs

JIGaWaMiga LGA

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M4D will work in three

states and nine local

government areas with 72

Community-Based Organisations.

By focusing on strengthening

engagement and demand,

promoting inclusion, supporting

better delivery and nurturing

innovation, M4D aims to achieve

the following results by 2018:

650,000 people in 270

communities will be supported to

make faster progress towards the

Millennium Development Goals.

This will include 30,000

adolescent girls who will be

supported to remain in school

longer, marry and have healthy

pregnancies, births and children,

helping infant and maternalmortality to fall.

Public resources become

better managed and offer more

efcient services which meet the

needs of everyone, especially

those who need these most.

ACHIEVE MDGS AND BROAD

DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES

AND ASPIRATIONS

IMPROVED ACCESS TO, USE OF,

AND SATISFACTION WITH,BETTER SERVICES

INCREASING

RESPONSIVENESS AND

ACCOUNTABILITY

Innovate

better-fit

approaches

Strengthen

engagement

and inclusion

Support better

delivery

and feedback

IDENTIFY ISSUES THAT GENERATE

CONVERGENCE

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Consultations with different groups in communities

ChngeGood governance is widelyrecognised as vital to sustainabledevelopment. However, many

development programmes have

concentrated on building the

capacity of either governments

to supply services, or citizens

to demand services. M4D takes

a fresh approach. Building on

ndings and learning from across

many contexts globally, M4D

will work across those traditional

divides to promote collective

action. Rather than thinking in

terms of sides, it recognises that

improvements are most likely

to happen where there is a

convergence of interest on a

specic service delivery challenge,

and a willingness to act collectivelyto nd and implement a solution.

And by working with some

excluded groups, we hope to foster

more equitable, inclusive service

delivery.

There is a critical extra ingredient

innovation. Strengthening

capacity is not enough. We believe

transformation will only come when

these are combined and innovative

approaches to services andaccountability emerge. As services

become more accountable,

M4D aims to help government

and citizens measure how they

are improving. Successes will

be shared widely to show other

communities and policy makers

the potential for change.

Wht is distinctive bot M4D:

-working across divides on

issues which resonate

building momentum, belief and

collective action

-a focus on excluded groups

(integrating adolescent girls and

people with disabilities)

-nurturing innovative solutions

and driving for scale

Common grond

We believe that targeting our

efforts at tackling issues where

there is shared interest and

commitment to act collectively

will lead to better service delivery

outcomes. It will inspire those

involved, and those who see

the success of the approach,

to respond creatively to other

intractable problems which require

innovative solutions.

M4D will help policy makers and

service providers become more

responsive to citizens entitlements.

Citizens will move from passive

acceptance or ineffective and

sometimes counter-productive

protest, to being able to articulate

their demands more effectively

and monitor results in a way which

holds service providers to account.

In order to sustain the changes we

will focus on: Strengthening the capacity

of communities, particularly

adolescent girls and people living

with disabilities to better organise,

effectively engage and demand

equitable service provision and

development outcomes

Improving the capability of policy

makers and service providers to

design innovative and better-t

services rather than offer one-size-ts-all approaches

Developing and testing some

innovative better-t approaches

that demonstrate new ways

of addressing the current

challenges, and

Promoting what we learn and

how we learn it so that others

can continue and improve on the

initiatives we start.

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Until now, most programmes

have focused at state and federal

level, leaving the LGA level largely

unaddressed. Yet it is at local level

where development outcomes

have fallen behind. It is the most

excluded people adolescent

girls, women, displaced people,

people with disabilities and others

who are most affected by gaps in

service delivery.

Developing new ways of doing

things will be essential to reducing

this exclusion. We call these

better-t approaches. Our notion

is built on moving from simple best

practice approaches to innovating

in ways that provide a better-t

in the context and reality we areworking in building on ideas

coming from within and outside

the community, but in ways that

are t for the context. Ideas must

rst pass the test of being better

than what is and capable of tting

in the local context. By changing

our focus, we hope to avoid

parachuting inappropriate ideas

from other contexts and instead

nurture sustainable solutions.

Our approach will be robust: ideas

will have to meet our criteria and

make it through consultationsand stress-tests. But we are

condent that our approach to

innovation will yield results that

improve basic service delivery

and, in turn, fairer development

outcomes. Critical to this process

is recognition of a higher-than-

usual failure rate. Careful selection,

early assessments and triggers

will enable us to fail fast and fail

efciently. We will document all ofour learning, whether successful

or not, analysing reasons and

distilling key characteristics

feeding these both into improved

innovations as well as sharing

outright failures. Whilst the

programme does not have the

resources to expand all of these

approaches, it will advocate and

inuence those stakeholders and

processes which are in a position

to use approaches that work to

scale and spread them.

People have good

ideas. We need tond them, test them,

publicise them andscale them up when

they work. We know

there will be failures

but we will fail fast

and efciently!

InnovteThe secret of sccess

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InclsionNigeria has the largest populationof any African country. Of this49% are female: some 80.2

million girls and women. So any

discussion about Nigerias future

for the realisation of MDGs must

necessarily entail consideration

of girls and women, the role they

play and the barriers they face in

making the future.Nkoyo Toyo,

Member - National Assembly

House Committee on MDGs

DFIDs own priorities recognise

that, as well as holding their own

rights, adolescent girls are central

to development. Girls who are

literate, healthy and are older when

they have children are more able

to participate in public life and bemore productive.

M4D found that the concept of

adolescence for girls is virtually

non-existent across Northern

Nigeria. Girls are considered to

be women as soon as they are

married and they are considered

marriageable almost at the point of

their menarche. The vast majority

are unable to read or write, and

Northern Nigeria accounts for 70%

of Nigerias prevalence of vesico

vaginal stula. Even when married,

many girls have no control over

nancial or other resources.

Tackling the impact of

discrimination against adolescent

girls, however, is perhaps the most

challenging dimension of M4Ds

programme and we will need allies

and champions to achieve this as

well as a good dose of realism.

Our interventions will be sensitive,

culturally relevant and timely, and

build on the opportunities that

girls and women have created for

themselves. We will collaborate

with state governments and local

policy makers and gate-keepers,

and collaborate with others such

as the International Centre for

Research on Women (ICRW), and

forge strong links with the Girl Hub/

Nike Foundation and other DFID

programmes with a focus on girls most notably Voices for Change

and the Population Council.

M4D hs trget of

improving the livesof 30,000 dolescentgirls cross the threeprogrmme sttes.This is minimm,rther thn trget,nd we hve designedthe progrmme so tht

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Spporting people withdisbilities

It is estimated that around 20%

of Nigerians live with some form

of disability. Polio, disease, roadaccidents and violent conict are

the main contributory factors. The

response to disability in Nigeria,

despite the many disabled peoples

organisations that exist there,

tends not to come from a human

rights approach. Most people in

Nigeria, disabled and able-bodied,

regard people with disability as

deserving of charity and welfare,

rather than as potential fullparticipants in their own lives and

that of their communities.

While we found pockets of

progress, services for people with

disability remain rare. Children

with disability are less likely to go

to school than their non-disabled

counterparts or to take part in

community activities. Although

in Northern Nigeria people with

disability do not experiencethe systematic discrimination

experienced in many other

countries, they are consistently

marginalised from mainstream

society. There is a relative lack

of stigma and controversy

associated with disability.

The educational achievements

of children with disability and the

health and poverty levels of all

people with disability can be usedas a litmus test for development

outcomes more broadly. M4D is

currently concluding research to

design specic interventions to

support the inclusion of people

with disabilities in issues relating

to services and accountability

at local level.

When M4D staff met with a group

of young women in Jigawa, one

girl, Hafsa (not her real name),

caught our attention. Not justbecause she arrived late, but

because of the language she

used. Condent and comfortable

with us, she stood out as a

potential advocate for adolescent

girls. It is this kind of potential

that can lead to progress if

harnessed appropriately.

Hafsa is about 12 years old

and was born with a disability.

Regularly she travels in the

company of a woman by bus to

Lagos from Miga (a journey of 17

hours) to beg for alms with the

blessing of her parents. Based on

how much money she has raised,

she is sent back to Miga with part

of the money.

Marriage is next in line for her

and many other girls her age. But

when asked what she considered

most important and benecial

to her in life, her response

was immediate: I want to go

to school. I want to study and

become a great person,she

said.

This started a chorus from the

other girls, who joined in asking

for the same thing. They all

wanted to go to school.

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M4Ds inception phase has

been vital for understanding the

opportunities and constraints faced

by the programme and ensuring

that it is relevant and grounded in

reality. Using local expertise, our

teams have gathered information

about the political, social, economic

and cultural context for M4D. In allthree states, we have talked with

local governments, communities,

policy makers, service providers

and partners. We have held forums

with stakeholders at community,

state and national level. The

resulting analysis has shaped

M4Ds programme principles,

its theory of change, logical

framework and overall programme

design.

Our research identied the

following ndings as particularly

important:

There is poor accountability and

capacity in Local Government

The upwards accountability of

Local Government Areas (LGAs)

and state power has weakened

the inuence of citizens and the

capacity of LGAs. There is littleincentive for LGAs leadership

to involve or account to citizens

and communities for local service

delivery, though we did nd a few

encouraging scenarios.

State Governments are important

we need a multi-layered approach

State Governments have a

strong inuence over services

at local level and have multipleapproaches. Engaging them will

be crucial to success. A multi-

layered approach to government

is necessary to deliver sustained

results, scale up interventions

and to effect meaningful longer

term systemic changes. At a

national level, initiatives such

as the MDG/CGS are crucial and

M4D must engage with these

to ensure progress.

Engage formal and informalgatekeepers

Our teams found a plethora of

inuential stakeholders whom

we must engage with effectively

if we are to bring about change.

Traditional leaders have a role

in both the supply and demand

for services, especially so when

engaging on issues affecting

adolescent girls.

The widespread impact of social

exclusion is high

Social exclusion operates across

gender, age, ethnicity, religion, and

disability, is context dependent,

and is often strongly inuenced by

poverty. Women and other groups

are almost totally excluded from

decision-making. A lack of strong

womens organisations and thenear absence of adolescent girls

groups exacerbate this situation.

Working with specic excluded

groups will enable the programme

to demonstrate dividends and learn

lessons for wider application.

Citizens organisations need

strengthening

Citizens organisations and civil

society are generally lacking ingood organisation. We also found

many registered organisations

but few of these had widespread

legitimacy many were dormant

and failing to full their potential.

For excluded groups, the situation

is even worse. Strengthening

these organisations will be key

to generating demand and kick-

starting engagement that can

rebuild accountability. There are

some promising local organisations

upon which M4D will build.

Conict and insecurity affect

service delivery adversely

The current climate of conict

and insecurity has made both

government and communities

cautious of large organised

meetings. Inequitable service

delivery contributes to conict,

and violent conict impedes the

planning and delivery of services.

Yet service delivery can also help

peace-building. M4D will nd

ways of using these opportunities

while staying mindful that our

interventions should not engender

insecurity. Conict-sensitive

programming will be a core

dimension of our work.

Government is not, and need

not be, the sole service provider

at local level

We found innovative examples

of service provision sometimes

driven locally and sometimes from

states themselves that involved

both private sector players and

philanthropic organisations. These

offer a starting point for diversifying

service provision, improving quality,

and providing both citizens and

governments with alternatives.

M4D will support innovation

in this area.

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Sttes tht innovte Engging commnitgtekeepersOnly long term empowerment

geared around service delivery, like

keeping girls in school to be trained

as health workers, nurses and

doctors so that more women can

go to health clinics and be treated

by female workers would make the

realisation of 2015 possible.

Rbi Ism, Specil adviser tothe Governor on NGO ffirs in

Kno Stte.

Since 2011, the government of

Kno Sttehas begun to put

more emphasis on grassroots

development, especially with new

interest shown by development

partners such as M4D in making

it work at local level.

To achieve this, the governmentis running a number of innovative

programmes designed to improve

the quality of basic services at

local government and community

level. These include empowering

communities to take a greater role

in the education sector through

the Community Reorientation

Committees (CRC), promoting

innovative entrepreneur-driven

health programmes such asthe Laya Jari programme and

publishing state nancial and other

information.

In Jigw Stte the Gunduma

Health Systems Board provides

curative health services at LGA

level, bringing primary and

secondary care services together

under one management structure.

The Joint State Comprehensive

Development Framework also

incorporates all sectors, includingsocial development, with targets

applying to each and the state

government has a cash transfer

programme focused on people

with disabilities.

In Kdn Sttethere is reform

under way, led by the Bureau for

Public Reform. The Ministry of

Local Government is interested in

developing an integrated Planning

and Monitoring framework for all

Local Governments.

It is innovations and ideas such

as these that M4D will connect

with in its drive to support improved

services and accountability

at local level.

Excluded groups such as women,

girls, and people with disabilities,

are often less visible. In order to

reverse this, an important rst step

is identifying and reaching the

gatekeepers who can facilitate

changes. Traditionally, thegatekeepers are usually identied

as men, particularly from religious

or traditional institutions as well

as male heads of families. We set

out to interact with women and

adolescent girls separately from

these traditional gatekeepers to

understand and hear their views. In

our research with groups of women

and girls across communities in

Kano, Kaduna and Jigawa states,

we found that mothers and other

older women are often gatekeepers

as well.. These economically

empowered women contribute to

the upkeep of the family, so have

more control over the lives of

their daughters. To reach younger

women, it will be crucial to engage

other women in their communities

and build their commitment and

understanding too.

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From a dime to thousands of naira

each one of us contributes what

she can afford. Our men inform

us what has been decided and we

contribute.

Femle reserch prticipnt,

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Women in Yashin Maraya

contribute to all the community

projects the road, the school, the

drinking wells. But they are rarely

consulted and their needs for

better health facilities and better

local education are often not the

core priorities. By supporting them,

M4D aims to increase their voice

and the chances that local services

will meet their needs.

M4D will not be able to deliver

these changes on its own.

Beyond the collaboration with

state and local governments,

M4D will engage with a range

of actors and development

partners. These include a

signicant engagement with the

Ofce of the Special Assistantto the President on the MDGs

(OSSAP, MDGs). This initiative

has fostered creative approaches

such as the Conditional Grant

Scheme (CGS) which seeks to

invest the dividends of debt relief

locally. The ambitious scheme

will reach all 774 LGAs across

the country. M4D will support this

initiative, providing inputs around

community mobilisation, capacitystrengthening, collaboration

on innovative approaches, and

use the reach of this Federal

Government initiative to spread

successful ideas from within M4D

LGA sites. The potential is exciting.

DFID has a range of programmes

working at state level in

education, health, water andsanitation, and on governance

as well. M4D will collaborate with

these initiatives (ESSPIN, SPARC,

SAVI, PATHS, GEMS, V4C, and

C-SAGE) to strengthen synergies

and increase impact. M4D will also

work with initiatives such as the

Nike Foundations Girl Hub and

seek synergistic engagement with

programmes of other donors and

philanthropic endeavours. Our

principle together, we can have

much more impact.

From a dime to

thousands of nairaeach one of us

contributes what shecan afford.

Collborting withothers

Women of yshinMr

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Tem Leder, M4D -

Chrles abniCharles is a

highly qualied

and seasoned

development practitioner with over

18 years experience in Africa and

Europe including leadership roles

in Voluntary Service Overseas

(VSO), Oxfam, and ARK and

various boards.

Sfe SpcesCoordintor - Hjr

Sleimn admHajara is a community

mobiliser skilled in

mainstreaming social inclusion

of girls and women across

reproductive health and education

in Northern Nigeria in USAID and

DFID-funded programmes.

Reslts Monitoring

nd Knowledge

advisor - Clement

WshA veteran journalist

and former Executive Director

of Community Action for

Popular Participation, Clement

has expertise in community

mobilisation, monitoring and

evaluation and budget analysis.

Commnictions

advisor -Ftim M. ShehA trained lawyer,

Fatima rose through

the ranks at BBC Media Action as

researcher, writer, editor, producer

and Interim Head of Training

before M4D.

Grnts Mnger -

Jstin Nior

Justin brings 11 yearsexperience of nance,

grants management

and compliance in USAID and

DFID funded projects in local and

international NGOs.

Governnce advisor

- Fnen adeFanen is currently

studying for a PhD

in Development

and has held management roles

at organisations such as the

Development and Learning Centre.

Finnce nd

administrtion

Mnger - Ibrhim

ykb MhmmdA Certied National

Accountant and Financial

Accountant, Ibrahim has a

decades experience in nancialanalysis, budget tracking and

administration.

Ofce assistnt -

Sleh MhmmdGmBefore joining M4D

Saleh worked with

Total Nigeria Ltd and Save the

Children in the same capacity.

Ntionl Finnce

Ofcer - Mrtl

GrbMurtala supports both

Kano state and M4Das a whole and is a Chartered

Financial Analyst with multi

sector experience and published

research.

Trnsport nd

Logistic Ofcer -

Nknng Svior

SlvesterWorking for both the

Kano and National Ofce, Nkanang

has 12 years driving experience

with private and international

NGOs.

Kno Centrl Ofce vcnt posts -State Programe Manager

Ofce Manager

Meet thetemKaNO Centrl Ofce Tem


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KaNO Stte Tem

Locl Governnce

Coordintor - abbIsk adm

Abba has expertise

in development

communications and community

mobilisation, with roles at

International Centre for Soil Fertility

and Agricultural Development

(IFDC) and Save the Children.

Driver nd Logistic

Ofcer - Mrtlabdlkdir

Murtala has 20

years experience in

the same capacity with several

international organisations and the

public sector.

JIGaWa Stte Tem

Stte ProgrmmeMnger -

Mhmmd Bello

abbkr

Muhammad is highly

qualied and has held leadership

and consultancy roles across

governance and health projects

funded by USAID, DFID and the

World Ban.

Locl GovernnceCoordintor - Hw

umr ali

Hauwa is experienced

in social mobilisation

and community development

involving nomads in Northern

Nigeria and holds qualications in

education, health and nutrition.

Finnce Ofcer -

Bl abbkrFormerly a lecturer,

Bala is a chartered

economist and

manager with experience in private

and international NGOs.

Ofce assistnt -

Zinb Bilmin

abdllhiZainab was an

announcer at

Freedom Radio, Jigawa and holds

qualications including English/

Islamic Studies and information

technology.

Trnsport nd

Logistic Ofcer -

abb IbrhimAbba holds legal and

public administration

qualications and has 10 years

administrative experience fromroles in the development and

commercial sectors.

Ofce Cretker

- Rt ahmed

IbrhimRaat holds a

Secondary School

Certicate from Kings College

Kano in 2008.

KaDuNa Stte Tem

Stte Progrmme

Mnger - Hnntahwn

Hannatu has worked

with Human Rights

Monitor and LEADS-NIGERIA

as Program Ofcer, Senior

Programme Ofcer; and Deputy

Director respectively.

Locl Governnce

Coordintor - Jfr

abbkr umrJafar has a Masters

degree and has

worked with PATHS2 in various

roles over the last four years,

including Acting Health Finance

Ofcer.

Finnce Ofcer -

Dnlmi yssfA Chartered

Management

Accountant, Danlami

has ten years experience

including the Nigeria Millennium

Development Goals conditional

grant scheme.

Trnsport nd

Logistic Ofcer -

Ceekee DoglsCeekee has 12 years

driving experience

working with GRID, Coca Cola andNigerian Breweries.


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ContctsEmil [email protected]

Kno (HQ nd stte ofce):No.6 Maitama Sule Road,

Nassarawa GRA, Kano

064-826204

Jigw ofce:

No.63 Yinka Sule Road, G9 Qtrs,

Adjacent to Naisa stores, Dutse

Kdn ofce:

29B Aliyu Mohammed Road,

(Former A.B.U. Teaching Hospital Doctors Quarters)

Tafawa Balewa Layout, Kaduna

Editor: Fatimah Shehu

Editoril spport nd development:Daniel Harris, Charles AbaniDesign: David Casey

Photogrph: Lucie Elukpo

Thanks to all those who contributed to this issue.

Commniction spport:DHA Communications

July 2013

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