CODE-F4ALL Extractives & Fiscal Just Founded in 2012, Connected Development [CODE] is a non-government organization [NGO] whose mission is to empower marginalized communities in Africa. We strengthen local communities by creating platforms for dialogue, enabling informed debate, and building capacities of citizens on how to hold their government accountable through Follow the Money.

CODE provides marginalized and vulnerable communities with resources to amplify their voices with independence and integrity while providing the communities with information that ushers social and economic progress.  To enhance effective  democratic  governance and accountability, CODE creates platforms  [mobile  and  web  technologies]  that  close  the  feedback  loop  between  citizens  and  the government.

We are activists, advocates, educators, mobilisers, community champions, volunteers, journalists.

Our Vision:
We envision a world where all people - even in the most remote areas of the globe can hold their government accountable.

Our Mission:
To empower marginalized communities

Our Objectives:
1.   Increase people#s access to information through whatever technological means they choose.
2.   Increase    and    share    innovative    approaches    to    information    exchange     through experimentation, research, and technology.
3.   Develop innovative platforms for coverage of social, environmental and governance issues.
4.   Increase the adoption and implementation of international development laws and policies.

Our Core Focus Areas:
1.   Follow The Money
2.   Advocacy and Policy Influencing
3.   Citizens Mobilisation

Our Core Values
#   Integrity
#   Commitment
#   Partnership
#   Freedom of information

Follow The Money is a signature campaign of CODE through whichwe advocate, visualize and track government and international aid funds earmarked for capital projects for the provision of Health, WASH and Education services in rural communities. Over the past five years we have tracked projects in over 50 communities,impacting over 600,000 lives so far.
We employ both traditional and new media to amplify the voices of the people in the communities where we carry out campaigns. Follow The Money Radio (in Abuja and Kaduna) ensures that a large percentage of the grassroot population are able to participate in conversations about campaigns.

Online social media engagements also ensure that we reach a critical mass of the youth population, majority of which are on various social media platforms.
Using traditional mediato tell our stories
On the Strategic Partnership/Conflict <(>&<)> Fragility project, CODE will work on three major outcomes;
1. Influence Financial institutions that invest in commodity trading companies strengthen their policies on human rights, illicit financial flows and conflict-sensitivity
CODE will carry out series of outreaches to amplify the voices of targeted communities negatively affected by the business practices of commodity traders. The key messages from these communities will be further directed to commodity traders and other relevant stakeholders to inform the discourse on the importance of a policy shift that can influence thedecision-making process of the policies of companies that influence the business practices of these commodity traders.

Furthermore, sensitization campaigns in the communities located close to the operating areas of commodity traders will occur through town hall meetings in order for communities to take ownership of the campaign and independently take the lead on monitoring the activities of commodity traders to ensure these activities occur in a conflict-sensitive and human rights-enhancing manner. Since this is a form of civic engagement, it will lead to an increase in the accountability and transparency of commodity traders# business practices.
ThePower of Voices Partnership (PvP) is an influencing programme with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme  FAIRfor ALL led by Oxfam Novib is five year long initiative implemented jointly with consortium members Huairou Commission, SOMO and Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa) aimed at supporting and collaborating with people’s rightful demands towards companies, governments and multilateral organizations for economic, social and environmental justice, promoting global trade and value-chains that are fair for all. The main focus of the FAIR for ALL programme proposal is to support and strengthen CSOs to play their diverse roles;as educators, mobilizers, creators and watchdogs to make trade and value chains FAIR for ALL.

In Nigeria, FAIR for ALL programme aims at strengthening capacity and raising awareness about the socio-economic costs associated with the Nigerian extractives sector, while advocating for improved governance to ensure that firms in the sector operate in a manner that respects human rights and is conflict sensitive. In addition, the programme will influence policy debates and initiatives to ensure sustained and prudent management of tax revenue and other revenues from the extractive sector, and promote accountability in delivering public services.

The Nigeria FAIR for ALL programme will be implemented by Oxfam in Nigeria and partners, aiming to: 1) Mobilize citizens and strengthen capacities of local organizations to increase the level of accountability of public actors; 2) Monitor state budgets and build strong alliances (in particular with women’s organizations) towards a well-regulated extractive sector, ensuring better management of natural resources, and more transparent public-private deals; and ensure 3) Fair and inclusive trade and fiscal systems, with proper taxation of extractive industries and investment of revenues through pro-poor spending in basic services. These objectives will be achievedby increased knowledge on public finance management, including overall fiscal knowledge and literacy on public budgets and government expenses, and increasing capacity to foster citizens’participation in budget processes. To achieve main objectives of the programme in Nigeria, Oxfam will collaborate with Connected Development (CODE)