The State and Local Government Programme (SLGP) was a governance development programme in Nigeria financed by the British Government Department for International Development (DFID). This programme worked mainly at state level, and originally in four states. Later the identities of these states were changed, and the number of states engaged with increased to 6.
The Programme finished in May 2008, after seven and a half years, but was effectively replaced by a new programme called State Partnerships for Accountability, Capacity and Responsiveness (SPARC). A new web page for this programme is being developed, and you will shortly be able to navigate between that site and this one.
During the life of SLGP a great deal of knowledge was accumulated and much documented. This website provides access to this knowledge. The site is intended for a variety of stakeholders, including development practitioners, state and local government officials, and for civil society organisations and the general public.
The material is divided into five categories:
• 5 formal reviews of the Programme undertaken by DFID;
• 104 reports produced by consultants;
• 8 success story pamphlets;
• 9 lesson learning reviews (completed towards the end of the Programme); and
• 5 sets of formalised training material.
In order to assist you in finding what you want, there is a covering access page to each of these sections.
You may also download a document that describes the Programme history and objectives overall. This paper helps to set the Nigeria development and political context in which the Programme wa implemented, and it traces DFID’s thinking about its engagement in Nigeria during the years of the Programme’s implementation. You should find it easier to make sense of the material available in this site if you read this paper first.
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Finally there is a key-word search facility covering the documentation.