Proactive Vigilance: How Citizens can hold their government accountable
Oludotun Babayemi
18 July 2016
“Abeg, you cannot come and fix a programme that will start at 8 am on a Saturday morning, I will not be able to attend, please postpone it for another day or cancel it” responded Ijiwere to her colleagues, who wanted to visit another friend; “Let me tell you, If you want me to come for that ‘owambe’ party on Saturday, then you should let it start at 10 am” affirmed Giringori, to his friends who were planning an event for Saturday.
“Imagine, those my friend wanted to suggest 8 am as a time for that party, I totally disagreed, and told them Jigida will be aired on radio at that time, and that is the only way I can report the lack of water in Kagara” said Giringori to his elder brother – Ijiwere.
These are the kind of conversations that go on in Kagara community, with everyone looking forward to Jigida, a weekly, one – hour radio programme that allows for citizens to call – in and express their community needs, which afterwards are been documented and sent to the various local government chairmen, and State House of Representative for response and decisions to be made. That’s not all, the first 30 mins of the programme is dedicated to the Councillor of the community sharing with the community, how much and what they will be spending on in the week. This is what proactive vigilance is all about!
Although proactive vigilance or public participation in budgeting or government spending is relatively new, the evidence attesting to its impact on resource allocation and service delivery is growing. Many of the existing findings are based on the well-known Brazilian experience with participatory budgeting, established first in Porte Alegre in 1989, and now replicated in over 40 countries around the world. Nigeria, is not left out as well, as its government hopes to encourage citizen participation, with its recent commitment to joining the Open Government Partnership, a multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.
You might be wondering, how many – landlord associations,vigilante groups, market women associations, community development associations, we have in rural communities. A lot of them! When are we going to start having “project vigilante” in rural communities, that will become voices of several communities, because by the time you wake up tomorrow morning, the news will be agog with “one billion dollars to be released to provide water in Kagara” only to go to Kagara after one year, you will find out that Kagara has no water source or a broken water source. Quite pathetic, and that’s is the way we are – the leaders and followers.
Nevertheless, I am excited that the Story Story writers at BBC Media Action are focusing on how citizens at the local government level, can be proactively vigilant on such issues of government spending in their communities, and I recently had some hours of session brainstorming with the crew, on how citizens can become vigilant themselves, I hope all will be reflected in their popular radio drama coming up sometimes in fall. Thanks to Nkem, our Reseach Lead on government finance, who took some notes on the highlights, and I have added them below:
Citizens can at every stage of this budget cycle engage their various government, but limited participation is expected during during formulation
- There is the local government or state government budget, a document that highlights government spending and revenue which can be for a financial year, or a multiyear.
- The Budget has its on cycle starting from formulation (when Ministry, Department, Agencies, put together their budget), to enactment (when the national or state legislative arm assent to the budget), to implementation (the stage at which contractors start executing projects in your communities), and lastly, the assessment stage (where everyone assesses the implementation of the budget, to provide feedback on how the next stage should look like)
- At every stage of the budget, citizens can make noise about their plight, and join in the conversation. They can form themselves as vigilante group or association, and always knock on the door of their local government officer or Councillor.
- They can forward a freedom of information request letter to the local government chairman to request for their budget immediately it passes the enactment stage, and even ask more question like who is the contractor, what is the work plan for the project, how much is the contractor getting, and when will the project be concluded. Here is an example of a freedom of information letter if you want to write one
- Government at the local government and state government level should starting providing platforms as well, for the assesement stage. E.g. using local radio programmes like Jigida, create a referendum mechanism for your local government area for people to have their say on projects proposed for next financial year. It should not be only during elections, that citizens see chairmen of local government or governors of states canvassing for votes.
- Like I always say, the budget is not only the means by which government declare their spending, in fact 50% – 60% of what’s on it might not be relevant. The other way is to always listen to the state news on your local radio, projects will be announced at all times, especially when they are project funded by other partners, such as the federal government or international donor agencies.
Ijiwere and Giringori have decided to do away with social gatherings, and focus on becoming a vigilante for community projects in Jigida, and if you are reading this, you should be towing same way, and you should share this piece. I look forward to the final drama series on this – If you have listened to Story Story, Voices from the Market program, then you should be more expectant. See you all in Kagara town, listening to Jigida on radio!
From left, Oludotun Babayemi, Nkem and the BBC Media Action Writers
Hello, after reading this amazing paragraph i am as well cheerful to share my know-how here woth friends.
의정부교정치과
Regards for this marvellous post, I am glad I detected this website on yahoo.
Visit my webpage – sofa slip covers
Not to mention the range of different THC gummies montreal products.
Hi there, just became aware of your blog through
Google, and found that it’s truly informative. I’m going to
watch out for brussels. I will appreciate if you continue
this in future. Numerous people will be benefited from your writing.
Cheers!
I love your blog.. very nice colors & theme. Did you design this website yourself
or did you hire someone to do it for you? Plz respond as I’m looking to
create my own blog and would like to know where u got this from.
thanks
Hello my loved one! I wish to say that this article is awesome,
great written and come with almost all significant infos.
I’d like to see extra posts like this.
Stop by my web-site custom slip covers
پروژه های آماده داوینچی ریزالو
داوینچی ریزالو چیست ؟
نرم افزار DaVinci Rizzalo محصول شرکت BlackMagic است و یکی از قوی ترین نرم افزارهای اصلاح رنگ و ویرایش فایل های ویدئویی است که در بسیاری از پروژه های سینمایی
هالیوود مورد استفاده قرار گرفته است.
این نرم افزار در درجه بندی و اصلاح رنگ تخصص دارد.
این نرم افزار هزاران امکانات و امکانات را فقط برای تصحیح رنگ فراهم خواهد کرد،
بنابراین شما می توانید خروجی
مورد نظر فیلم های خود را به بهترین وجه ممکن دریافت کنید.
DaVinci Resolve از سه بخش تشکیل شده است، بخش اول یک نرم افزار بسیار
ساده با قابلیت های کوچک است که با
نام Davinci Resolve Lite شناخته می شود.
مهم ترین ویژگی داوینچی ریزالو را می
توان سرعت بی نظیر این برنامه در نظر گرفت.
این نرم افزار برای تولید بسیاری از
برنامه های تلویزیونی،
آگهی های بازرگانی و تیزر، فیلم، مستندهای حرفه
ای و موزیک ویدئوهای چهره
های برجسته و سرشناس مورد استفاده
قرار گرفته است.
پروژه آماده داوینچی ریزالو چه کاربردی دارد؟
پروژه های آماده یک فایل نهایی از یک
پروژه از پیش طراحی شده ارائه می دهند، و شما می توانید پروژه را خیلی سریع فقط
با تغییر تصاویر و متن و آماده سازی نتیجه نهایی برای شما ویرایش کنید.
این کار می تواند سرعت کار
شما را برای ارائه پروژه ها تا حد زیادی افزایش دهد، همچنین مجموعه ای از ابزارهای حرفه
ای آماده و از پیش طراحی شده را فراهم می کند و دیگر مجبور نیستید وقت خود را
برای ایجاد این مراحل از ابتدا تلف کنید.
پروژه های آماده می توانند برای ایجاد هر ویدئویی که
می تواند در DaVinci Resolve ایجاد شود، مورد
استفاده قرار گیرند.
پروژه آماده داوینچی ریزالو برای چه چیزی است؟
در دسته بندی پروژه های آماده داوینچی ریزالو در سی جی کوک، یک فایل عملی از
ابزارها و فایل های آماده این نرم افزار در
دسترس کاربران قرار دارد.
با استفاده از این امکانات می توانید سرعت کار خود را در
ارائه پروژه ها تا حد زیادی افزایش می دهند.
شما همچنین می توانید یک فایل بزرگ و
حرفه ای از فایل ها و پروژه های آماده برای نرم افزار ادوبی پریمیر طرفدار در رده پروژه پریمیر در وب سایت سیجی
کوک دسترسی داشته و استفاده از فایل های آماده پریمیر در پروژه های خود را.
Luk, and A. A. Kishk, “Miniature vast-band half U-slot and half E-formed patch antennas,” IEEE Antennas Propag.
3. Chow, Y. L., Z. N. Chen, K. F. Lee, and K.
M. Luk, A design principle on broadband patch antennas with slot, IEEE Antennas Propag.
Huynh, T. and K. F. Lee, “Single-layer single-patch wideband microstrip antenna,” Electron. 6.
Clenet, M. and L. Shafai, “Multiple resonances and polarisation of U-slot patch antenna,” Electron. Simple
options like manually checking annotations or having
multiple staff label every pattern are expensive
and waste effort on samples which can be
right. Furthermore, as multiple customers arrive and interact with the DTSM system concurrently, a number
of previously unstudied issues come up. Our focus is using car routing heuristics inside DTSM to assist retailers handle the availability of time slots in actual time.
SA shares information between slots and utterances and only
wants a easy construction to foretell the supporting span. Moreover, we complement the annotation of
supporting span for MultiWOZ 2.1, which is the shortest span in utterances to assist the labeled worth.
The contrastive loss goals to map slot worth contextual representations
to the corresponding slot description representations.
Here is my web site: joker true wallet
Lovely blog! I am loving it!! Will be back later to read some
more. I am taking your feeds also
Visit my webpage … outdoor space
A regular dosage is 30 mg of THC gummies shark tank in one bag of item.
Hi, just wanted to say, I liked this article. It was funny.
Keep on posting!
대구유흥
I didn’t know that.
I’m not sure why but this weblog is loading incredibly slow for me.
Is anyone else having this issue or is it a problem on my
end? I’ll check back later on and see if the problem still exists.
I do believe all of the ideas you have introduced in your post.
They are really convincing and can certainly work.
Nonetheless, the posts are very quick for newbies.
May just yoou please extend them a bit from subsequent time?
Thanks for the post.
송탄출장마사지
Hi, I woսld like to subsⅽribe for this webpagе
to obtain hottest updates, thus where can i do it pleaѕе help out.
Alѕo visit my Ƅlog post … monthly calendar
Thank you for some other informative blog. Where else
may just I get that kind of information written in such an ideal method?
I have a undertaking that I’m just now working on, and I’ve been at the glance out for
such information.
Whɑts up verｙ cool web site!! Guy .. Beautiful .. Superb ..
Ι’ll bookmark youг website аnd tɑke tthe feeds additionally?
Ι am glad tо search out numerous ᥙseful іnformation rіght ere in the publish, wｅ’d
ike develop extra techniques іn this regard, thɑnks foг
sharing. . . . . .
Good way of explaining, and pleasant paragraph to get data on the topic
of my presentation subject, which i am going to present
iin school.
수원출장마사지
I’m impressed, I muѕt sɑy. Seleom dօ І ccome acros a blog that’s
equally educative аnd intеresting, annd ⅼet me telⅼ you, yoս have hit the nail oon tһe head.
The prоblem іs something not enkugh people ɑrе speaking intelligently aƅout.
I’m verey haρpy I foսnd tһis dᥙring my search for something relating tо this.
Aⅼso visit my web site: project management of a construction project
Hi my family member! I wish to say that this post is amazing, nice written and include almost all important
infos. I’d like to look extra posts like this.
my blog: couch cushion cover
Excellent beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your web site,
how could i subscribe for a blog web site? The account aided me
a acceptable deal. I had been a little bit acquainted of this
your broadcast offered bright clear concept
My blog; couch slip covers
These are genuinely impressive ideas in about blogging. You have touched some good
things here. Any way keep up wrinting.
마이프로틴 할인코드
It’s actually a great and helpful piece of info.
I’m satisfied that you shared this useful information with us.
Please stay us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this matter to be really something which I think I would never understand.
It seems too complex and very broad for me. I am looking forward for your next post, I will try
to get the hang of it!
I am truly pleased to glance at this webpage posts which includes plenty of valuable data, thanks for providing these
statistics.
Have a look at my web page :: outdoor room
1. Do some research on different THC gummies for anxiety products.
Waay cool! Some very valid points! I appreciate you penning this write-up plus the rest of the website is very good.
먹튀검증
THC gummies private label europe gummies are among one of
the most prominent THC items.
I just like the valuable information you provide on your articles.
I’ll bookmark your weblog and check again right here frequently.
I am slightly sure I will be told lots of new stuff proper here!
Best of luck for the following!
It’s an awesome piece of writing designed for all the
online people; they will get advantage from it I am sure.burlington on movers
Slot Tanpa disunat Pulsa The Dog House. Aztec Slot Pulsa Deluxe.
Wild Walker Slot Pulsa Tanpa dikurangi. Joker Jewel Slot Pembayaran Lewat
Pulsa Tanpa dikurangi. Slot Gacor Pulsa Tanpa dikurangi.
Slot Pulsa Transfer 20 ribu. Slot Depo Pulsa lewat DANA.
2022 ini. Tentunya list bakalan selalu update, diakibatkan para produsen slot
pulsa selalu menambah game slot pulsa baru.
Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your weblog and wished
to say that I’ve really enjoyed browsing your blog posts.
After all I will be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again very soon!
I don’t commonly comment but I gotta tell thanks for
the post on this perfect one :D.
Also visit my web page – patio cushion care
Thanks for this grand post, I am glad I noticed this site on yahoo.
Here is my site :: patio chairs
In addition to the series of various THC gummies paris products.
It’s in point of fact a nice and useful piece of info.
I am happy that you simply shared this useful information with us.
Please stay us informed like this. Thanks for sharing.
If you want to take a great deal from this piece of
writing then you have to apply these methods to your won website.
Why viewers still make use of to read news papers when in this technological
world the whole thing is presented on web?
Check out my homepage – outdoor space
I really like reading an article that will make men andd women think.
Also, thanks for allowing for me to comment!
마이프로틴 코리아
1. Do some research study on numerous THC products.
my blog bookmarks
Hey There. I found your weblog the usage of msn. Thiis is a really smartly written article.
I’ll make sure to bookmark itt and return to read more oof yolur helpful info.
Thanks for the post. I will certainly return.
마이프로틴 코리아
THC gummies are among the most prominent THC products.
Feel free to surf to my web page – Bookmarks
Ԍetting your brand in fｒοnt of retail buyers
ｃan be ɑ challenge.
At Consumer Products International (CPI), օur
retail industry professionals һave more than seven decades of
experience working with retail buyerrs fгom national and
regional chains.
NPI ѡorks ԝith international and domestic health ɑnd wellness brand manufacturers whoo What Are The Benefits Of Terpenes In Full Spectrum CBD? seeking
tⲟ enter the U.S. market оr expand theіr retail distribution network iin America.
CPI’ѕ professional team һas the contacts, expertise, ɑnd knowledge to
guide үoսr branhd fгom concept tto shelf.
Ԝhile researching health ɑnd wellness brands, Ӏ recently learned
aƅoսt yoᥙr products ɑnd realized that CPI ｃould help yoou increase yоur retail penetration in America.
Whｅn we work with brand manufacturers, ᴡе provide expertise iin аll areaѕ of
distribution:
• Turnkey/Ⲟne-stop solution
• Active accounts ᴡith major U.S. distributors and retailers
• Аn executive team that һas held executive positions ԝith Walmart and Amazon, the twо largest online аnd brick-and-mortar retailes in tһe U.S., and Glanbia, the world’s largest sports nutrition company.
• Proven sales f᧐rce ԝith public relations,
branding, аnd marketing all uner one roof
• Focs on neԝ and existing product lines
• Warehousing ɑnd logistics
Consumer Products International һas a long, successful track record of aking brands
to market іn the United Ѕtates. CPI is үouｒ fast track t᧐ the
retail market.
Ɗuring thee neхt couple of weeks, I wioll reach oᥙt to үou
aցаin tⲟ discuss hоw Consumer Products International can ƅring
your products in front of ⅼarge andd smaall retailers
tһroughout the country.
If yoս havｅ any questions, dߋn’t hesitate tο contgact mе.
Қind Regardѕ,
Gary,
Gaary Cohen
VP оf Business Development
Consumer Products International
101 Plaza Real Տ, Ste #224
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Office: 561-544-071
gcohen@consumerproductsintl.ϲom
I worked as a model and host for Playboy TV subcompany
shortly before debuting in pretty porn movies.
I was discovered on an episode of Hot Night Pussies.
Also, I entered the adult film industry in 1999 and did my first scene
successfully.
In 2007, I took a one-year hiatus from performing, during which I continued feature dancing, and
returned in the summer of 2009 to xxx movies projects.
Can you tell us more about this? I’d love to find out some additional information.
마이프로틴 코리아
Hi there, You have done an incrediblee job.
I’ll certainly digg it and personally recommend to
my friends. I am confident they will be benefited from this web site.
향남출장마사지
Some really interesting points you have written.Helped me a lot, just what I was searching for :D.
Feel free to surf to my website Bookmarks
Generally I do not read post on blogs, however
I would like to say that this write-up very forced me to take a look at and do so!
Your writing taste has been surprised me. Thanks, very great post.
Hello, I enjoy reading all of your article post.
I like to write a little comment to support you.