BudgIT-F4ALL Extractives & Fiscal Just BudgIT, is a civic tech organisation founded in 2011 to raise the standards of transparency and accountability in public finance. Since inception, the organisation has applied technology to meld citizen engagement and institutional improvement, with the aim of enabling societal change.

BudgIT employs a wide range of creative tools and the social media to simplify the budget and public expenditure for citizens, consequently raising standards of transparency and accountability in Government. BudgIT partners with civil
society organizations, public institutions and the media, mainly in the areas of fiscal analysis, civic technology and data presentation.

Our unique approach includes deploying data mining skill sets to creatively represent informationusing infographics and empower citizens to use the information to articulate their demands for service delivery. Furthering its advocacy to reach the hearts of the people in the grassroots is TRACKA - a project tracking tool that allows citizens monitor developmental projects in their communities. Created in 2014, this web and mobile platform is currently operational in 22 States (one field officer in each State), and bridges the communication gap between elected representatives and their people, thus ensuring the completion of projects at grassroots level. Through a series of workshops, regular publication of infographics and social media engagement, TRACKA has kept State and Local Governments on their toes in the past year, fast tracking service delivery, and aims to expand its thematic and geographical scope in the nearest future.

For three years, BudgIT has also led advocacy campaigns to achieve Nigeria#s membership on the global Open Partnership initiative. In 2016,Governance Nigeria formally joined the Open Government Partnership by sending a letter of intent to the OGP Global Secretariat. BudgIT was actively involved in the development of Nigeria#s first National Action Plan which is a strategy document with actionable commitments that Nigeria (civil society, government and private sector) will work on within a period of two (2) years. BudgIT is currently the secretariat of the Open Alliance - a coalition of over 100 civil society organisation working on the OGP in Nigeria. The Open Alliance hasbeen the forerunner of OGP in Nigeria from the days of advocacy for membership.

In partnership with the Nigeria Extractive Industries Initiative (NEITI) and Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), BudgIT recorded remarkable success in bringing attention to the extractives industry, particularly with the #FixOurOil campaign. The activity has further opened up the workings of the oil and gas sector, simultaneously unmasking various economic opportunities that lie in the solid minerals sector.
The Power of Voices Partnership (PvP) is an influencing programme with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The programme  FAIR for 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 mannerthat 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 publicservices.

The Nigeria FAIR for ALL programme will be implemented by Oxfam in Nigeria and partners, aiming to: 1) Mobilize citizensand strengthen capacities of local organizations to increase the level of accountability of public actors; 2) Monitor state budgetsand 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 achieved by 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 BudgIT