ICYMI: Watch the #DCdays19 closing plenary, where among others, Bisola Akinmuyiwa from @sdinet spoke eloquently about how young slum-dwellers are pushing for positive change --> https://t.co/JH5X0lgSxb
“Too often we talk too much and do too little on human rights” - @EUinNigeria Ambassador Ketil Karlsen // Let’s take this message to heart as we mark #HumanRightsDay & plan what we can do better in 2020 to #EndForcedEvictions#EndSGBV and so much more
ONGOING NOW: Community film screening at Sagbo-Kodji.
Ever heard of our ongoing project - LEGENDS OF LAGOS?
We go into different communities to screening our films for the voice of our Legends to be heard.
#InclusiveLagos#EveryStreetMatters
ONGOING NOW: #ForcedEviction of nearly 1,500 residents of #2ndBadagry community in #Lagos — no notice, just a promise of compensation to a handful of residents who filled an unexplained “enumeration form.” @followlasg — we can do better than this? Time to #EndForcedEvictions!!!
The late Jockin Arputham, founder of @sdinet is this year’s winner of the @SarphatiAward for Lifetime Achievement for his decades of work improving life and sanitation for slumdwellers across the world. This week he was honored by his friends & colleagues: https://t.co/GWqPDoyFcH
We started profiling Idi Araba Community April 2019 and finished off early May. In May, we began Enumeration and wrapped it up in July. And today we are presenting their community data to them, which they can use to plan for the betterment of their community!
#KnowYourCity
“With this data — you have power to negotiate with government to improve drainage, improve access to services” — Obafemi Goriola of Lagos Urban Renewal Agency (@lasura01) #KnowYourCity
“Before we can plan for upgrading, we must know ourselves” —@NaijaFederation convenes presentation of community-led enumeration data in Idi Araba Oworonshoki as part of collaboration w/ University of Lagos (@UnilagNigeria) and Lagos Urban Renewal Agency (@lasura01) #SDG11@sdinet
Got a minute? Check out the amazing work of @NaijaFederation Media Team --> Reclaiming the narrative of #PortHarcourt waterfront communities, one story at a time. https://t.co/11usmpB82q cc @SamPhotographs
For @sdinet it has always been exclusion that has created the necessary dialogue with cities to create carbon neutral cities #UrbanOpportubity @c40cities
@justempower community paralegal @fynmissjay speaks at #NationalParalegalSummit about critical role of paralegals in providing grassroots legal aid to indigent clients and urban poor communities
Ondo State contributes 12% of Nigeria's over 37billion barrels of crude oil proven reserves. To harness this huge potential, the State has signed a MoU with Crown Refinery & Petrochemical Ltd., to build a 30,000bpd capacity Refinery in Ilaje LGA and to be completed in year 2022.