Equal Basis Development Initiative - EBDI

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year from all of us at EBDI 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Every December 10th is International Human Rights Day.2025 Theme:Human Rights Our Every day Essentials. Fundamental human Rights are not abstract but vital for daily life.Disability Rights are human rights too.Human rights are not optional the are Our Everyday Essentials.

Our organization was part of the North Central Open Government Partnership Regional Meeting by African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre L*D) with support from Macarthur Foundation under the Project Promoting Transparency and Accountability in Governance Processes through Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Nigeria Project 11.

This two days meeting which took place 29th -30th September 2025 was to deepen engagement in OGP process in Nigeria.It was a learning progress being made in the respective States on Open Government Partnership challenges and what can be done to sustain the tempo.

The essence of the peer learning is towards improving and enhancing the co-creation process of OGP reforms and making governance a strategic priority for sub national government.

The concept of OGP is a process of government being a reformer is to serve the citizens in providing better services noting that the civil society and government are partners in providing better service delivery.
Participants were drawn from State and non State actors , steering committee members from North Central States of Plateau,Niger, Kogi, Nassarawa, Benue.