MAMACENTER- Accountability4Empowerment In 2018, Mothers And Marginalized Advocacy Center (MAMA Center) implemented a Voice empowerment Project called ‘EMPOWER’, aimed at strengthening the capacity of Amachala Ngwo women, on advocate skills. The skills acquired emboldened the women group and facilitated opportunities for them to engage key government stakeholders who helped address some of the issues that border them in the community. This endeared Amachala community women to other women groups in neighboring communities.

Current project- Accountability for Change (A4E) seeks to provide similar intervention but with broader reach- Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State. Udi women have many indigenous farmers who derive most of their income from the sale of their farm products. However, road network from their villages to markets and to other neighboring towns like Ekeani Enugu village via Etiti via Amachala via Umuase to Nsude mission market to Orieagu and Nkwoagu markets are unmotorable. The state government during the past administration awarded contracts to build the linking roads for ease of movement from the hinterland to the cities, but these projects were abandoned with no accountability. With poorstorage facility and no access to roads, the women are not able to get value for their farm products. They therefore seek capacity building opportunity in public project monitoring <(>&<)> tracking, to enable them hold relevant stakeholders accountable for the abandoned roads.

The overall goal of the Project is simple- that Udi women gain relevant skills needed to push the government to complete abandoned roads so as to improve their means of livelihood. To achieve this, they propose the following activities:
1. Baselinestudy of the current situation of abandoned livelihood projects with direct impact on rightsholders' socio-economic advancement in Udi LGA.
2. Conduct 3 target-led advocacy visits to the relevant Ministries to track allocations and releases for the abandoned projects.
3. Organise a Town Hall Meeting to present fact-findings from the baseline assessments of the abandoned livelihood projects inUdi LGA
4. Organise a 2-day Capacity Building Workshop for the rightsholders on their 'Rights to Know' public spending, and demand accountability on the abandoned livelihood projects
5. Organise 2 Accountability Dialogue Sessions for the rightsholders to voice their concerns and elicit commitments for legislative oversight on the abandoned livelihood projects.
6. Organise one Rightsholders-Executive-Media Accountability Town HallDialogue to elicit policy commitment for the completion of the abandoned livelihood projects across the LGA.
7. Organise one Capacity Building Workshop on budget tracking, to track budgetary allocation and releases of abandoned livelihood projects acrossUdi LGA.
8. Organise 4 target-led learning visits to abandoned project sites among rightsholders groups across Udi Local Government Area to strengthen synergy in advocacy and demand accountability.
10. Conduct follow-up actions and support to the rightsholders in the LGA.
11. Documentation and publication of the project lessons learnt and end-line analysis.


The theory of change will unfold when the capacity of female farmers from Udi LGA is built to know their rights and be empowered to go outinone voice to demand accountability from their leaders in the area of socio-economic development to enhance their earning capability. Through a series of capacity building sessions under the project,  it is hoped that the women will be well equipped to continue beyond the project to advocate for accountability for empowerment, just as their counterparts in Amachala-Ngwo did. Ultimately, it is hoped that the advocacy engagement will bring about accountability in completing governments’ abandoned projects.This in turn willimprove the lives of rightsholders in Udi LGA, whose farm produce will have more markets, earning capacity will improve, more people will gain employment and development will set in.