BUDGET ADVOCACY TRAINING WORKSHOP Kola Giwa, Director of Programmes-NNNGO A 4-Day Budget Advocacy Training Workshop was organized by Action Aid International under the ADVANCE Project being implemented by PACT Nigeria funded by USAID between March 10th 2008 and March 13th 2008 at AIDS Alliance Office, No. 6, Coker Street, Ilupeju, Lagos. The training was specifically for AIDS Alliance in Nigeria/ Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC, Ijebu-Ode) partners in Lagos. NNNGO's Director of Programmes, Mr. Kola Giwa, was one of the participants at the programme which had, inter alia, the following objectives: to build partners' capacity to analyse key sector budgets; to assist partners to assess the status of key sectors in their communities as well as identify priority areas of needs in those sectors; to build capacity on different concepts in public Finance Analysis and the importance of budget to the development of the nations key. With daily practical sessions and activities, participants concluded at the end of the exercise, that the programme achieved its objectives through trainees' exposure to new areas in budget advocacy. On the 20th of March, 2008, AIDS Alliance in Nigeria, in collaboration with Justice Development and Peace Commission, Ijebu-Ode organized a one-day event for the Review of the Lagos State Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (LASEEDS) with the aim of contributing and influencing the State's policy on HIV & AIDS, Education, Agriculture and other relevant issues. The event which took place at AIDS Alliance Office at No. 6, Coker Street, Ilupeju was witnessed by Mr Kola Giwa, NNNGO's Director of Programmes. Back to Top