As part of the effort to achieve the objectives of Strengthening Citizens Resistance Against Prevalence of Corruption (SCRAP-C) project, Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) together with Action Aid Nigeria and Centre for Communication and Social Impact organized a capacity building workshop in Abuja from September 11-13 for social groups and network on social audit and social mobilization for accountability.

In his opening remark, the project manager, Lukman Adefolahan, said the project was about changing the mindset of citizens to own the fight against corruption through the instrumentality of social audit.

He said the project at the federal level would be focused on engaging policy makers, while social groups would be the target in the States.

The essence of the activities, which have so far been implemented in Lagos, Enugu, Borno and Akwa Ibom States, is to empower citizens to demand accountability using social audits in four thematic areas which include taxation, power, health and education.

The facilitator of the workshop, Suleiman Arigbabu of Human and Environment Development Agenda (HEDA), explained a wide range of issues around social audit, including the features, the stakeholders, the importance of social audit, how to conduct social audit and the challenges encountered by social actors in Nigeria. He said the ultimate objective of social audit was the attainment of justice.

Participants were also exposed to tools for social mobilization and campaign against corruption.