ALAB- Inclusion through Citizen Feedback Accountability Lab Nigeria has proposed under this grant to engage with Nigerians particularly the rights holders of Voice, on their role as citizens in the Open Government Partnership. The project will focus particularly on the current Nigerian Action Plan.

Civic Action Teams (CivActs) are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process. CivActs collect critical information from communities to solve daily problems for marginalized citizens, close the loop on challenges, and create tools that strengthen communities# ability to self-advocate.

This approach was developed by the Accountability Lab in Nepal after the earthquakes of 2015 to improve the disaster response, it will beadapted to the Nigerian contextto focus on issues of marginalization and exclusion. The process involves training community members (Community Frontline Associates, or CFAs) to collect data on community needs and their perceptions of critical challenges,and feed that data up to decision-makersand back to the community in formats that are both understandable and useful. Through multi-stakeholder town hall meetings, CFAs bring powerholders and community members together to discuss the challenges and perceptions surfaced through the data collection, creating a space where trust can be built and solutions can be co-created.

Under this project, the CivicActs will support women, youth,and persons with disabilities in the Niger Delta region. The CFAs willgenerate data around fiscal governance issues that will be useful to these groups for improving grassroots advocacy using community radio conversations, multi-stakeholder debates and dialogues,and dissemination of infographics. With this, these excludedgroups will be more informed and grassroots activists better equipped to advocate for improved policies, with proposed policy changes as an output.

The current project will use an array of digital toolsand platforms to improve engagement with excluded citizens, and facilitate cross-communication between citizens and government institutions. Responses from citizens will be aggregated in reports and sent to government institutions to request that the latter act in the best interests of excluded groups.

Thus, the sole goal of this project is to equip communities, and marginalized groups in particular, who are affected by a lack of accountability in the extractives sector with useful citizen-generated data for self-advocacy, and disseminate accurate information to engage a broad audience, and create multi-stakeholder spaces that foster trust-building and solutions-driven dialogue.

To achieve this, the project proposes the following objectives:

- to empower marginalized groups through multi-stakeholder dialogues and townhall engagements with public officials in 3 OGP states (Imo, Delta, and Edo) and generate constant feedback to government officials and concerned companies to meet obligations to the communities

- Increase meaningful participationand strengthen the voice of young people, women and other persons with disabilities in governance processes by providing simplified and inclusive information around open governance (such as fiscal transparency e.g. NEITI 2017 Audit Report, etc.) through street vibes, music, infographics and monthly tweet chats.

The activities that will help achieve these objectives are:

Activity I: Sensitizing communities and generating dialogue on transparency in communities affected by extraction, and enablingcitizens to participate in decision-making processes.

Activity II: Outreach and Engagement
We will also support NEITI report to translate the report content in creative ways using film, music and infographics to help young people and marginalized groups better understand the report content.