Month: September 2017

The NGO Regulatory Bill, proposed by Umar Buba Jibril, stated that the NGOs bill is primarily to set up a commission to regulate their activities and provide a platform for robust relationships between them and the government for the interests of Nigerians. A lot of Nigerians are of the perspective that; this bill will constrain […]

Beyond FATF: Trends, Risks and Restrictive Regulation of Non-Profit Organisations in Nigeria is the first part of the research report on Closing Spaces for Democratic Engagement and Civil Society in Nigeria. The report examined the (in)adequacy of Nigeria’s legal framework for countering terrorism-financing and money laundering in order to determine whether a proper evidential link exists between […]

The report, Closing Spaces for Civic Engagement and Civil Society in Nigeria, generates a database of closing spaces across Nigeria, presenting the evidence of restrictions on citizens and civil society operations, perpetrated under the guise of ‘national interest’, ‘national security’ and ‘other money laundering and terrorism financing considerations.    

Beginning from November 2016 to April 2017, SPACES FOR CHANGE launched a systematic inquiry into Nigeria’s legal regimes for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism in order to understand if any connection exists between the country’s compliance with FATF’s Recommendation 8 and the shrinking spaces for civic engagement and civil society operations in Nigeria. The […]

Do you work for a non-profit or non-governmental organization (NGO), more broadly referred to as civil society groups? SPACES FOR CHANGE’s FATF Factsheet Series provides concise pieces of information designed to increase sectoral understanding of the Financial Action Task Force and the implications for civil society operations in Nigeria.  

Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF’s) Recommendation 8 (R8) applies to non-profits, and this includes the civil society sector. This Factsheet explains what non-profits have to know about R8 and the implications for their charitable operations.  

The implementation of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations can influence policy choices and governmental measures designed to curtail criminal activity in the domestic arena. This Factsheet examines how FATF influences Nigeria’s regulatory framework for anti-money laundering (AML) and for countering financing of terrorism (CFT).      

Understanding National Risk Assessments and FATF Evaluations is a presentation by the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) at SPACES FOR CHANGE’s public dialogue on closing spaces for civil society in Nigeria held on May 29, 2017. The presentation sheds light on National Risks Assessments (NRA) | Why the NRA is important | How […]

This report sums up the proceedings at the one-day public forum on Citizenship, Civic Spaces and Civil Society in Nigeria, held on February 28, 2017, in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria. The public forum forms part of a broader strategy for gathering information from a  wide spectrum of non-profit stakeholders in order to gauge […]