Category: Infographics

Starting from 2016, SPACES FOR CHANGE | S4C has been curating incidents of closing civic space in Nigeria on the Closing Spaces Database: www.closingspaces.org. Beyond tracking and documenting the drivers, perpetrators, victims, tactics, and the flashpoints of shrinking civil society space in the West Africa sub-region, the database groups the incidents tracked into eight distinct legal categories: […]

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).