Books

Book Publications

·       In collaboration with Oxfam GB, CIDA, ActionAid International, Heinrich Boll Foundation (HBF),Pact Nigeria through USAID grant, and the Canadian High Commission, CISLAC has published several books in order to further the process of public and governmental sensitisation on key issues such as fiscal responsibility, mainstreaming transparency, and the NEITI process in Nigeria.  Past publications include:

    • The Legislature and Budget Process in Nigeria
    • Issues in Public Procurement in Nigeria:  The Legislative Challenge
    • Towards a Fiscal Responsibility Regime in Nigeria:  The civil society-legislature nexus 2006
    • Towards a Fiscal Responsibility Regime in Nigeria:  The Civil Society-Mass Media Intervention 2006
    • Civil Society and the EITI in Nigeria, Vol. I Petroleum
    • Civil Society and the EITI in Nigeria, Vol. II Solid Mineral
    • Towards the Legislative Harmonization of the NEITI Bill:  Issues and Concerns
    • Enhancing CSOS’ Participation in the NEITI Audit Process in Nigeria
    • The Legislature and Democracy in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic
    • Mainstreaming Transparency into the Political Process in Nigeria
    • Budget Advocacy: Experiences of West African CSOs
    • Oversight: Training on Role of the Legislature in NEITI Audit Process
    • Deepening State-Level Legislative Advocacy in Nigeria
    •  Strengthening Stakeholders Oversight Roles in the NEITI Process in Nigeria

 

     

 

For any government to impact positively on the lives of its people there has to be a sound financial and monetary regime predicted on the welfare and being of the population. Traditionally, such policies are expressed in regular budgets gets that are proposed by the legislature.                                                                           

     

 

The debate about managing the Nigerian economy has, since independence in 1960, been dominated by a contest between economic ideologies rather than specific models and templates. The result is that models and templates have not featured as much as choice out of economic ideologies such as nationalism, free enterprise or socialism.                              

      

Cislac is happy to eventually come out with a publication of the proceeding of civil society engagements on the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Bill. We consider it an achievement to be able to put the presentations and the discussions at the sessions in a book form. It makes for easy reference on an issue which is still new in Nigeria discourse in the ways being discussed.                                                             

Solid minerals: Avoiding the Oil Curse is a reproduction of a newspaper report. It was so decided because of the way the report has captured and synthesized the debates, the emotions and the proposals on the crisis of the mineral resource utilization by the Nigerian state since 1960.                                                

 

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