In 2009, after over three years of intensive militancy activities that saw the nation’s oil production capacity drop to an all-time low, President Umaru Musa Yar’dua declared the Presidential Amnesty Program. This report contextualizes the amnesty program, and holds the perceptions of mismanagement of funds against the actual state of affairs. The report also considers…
Peaceable Livelihood Assessment for Community Engagement (PLACE) is one of the tools adopted by the Foundation for understanding its target communities. In this exercise, the tool is used to focus on communities indigenous to the Economic Development Centre (EDC). The tool is designed to engage the constituents of the target communities for the purpose of…
This case study is about an approach to community engagement involving Chevron Nigeria Ltd.(CNL) and local communities in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. In the wake of a violent inter-ethnic crisis in 2003, CNL — the third largest oil producer in the country — dramatically reshaped its community engagement strategy. The new process is known as the…