Category: Policy briefs

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global body that formulates standards used by countries combating money laundering (ML) and the financing of terrorism (FT). FATF’s 40+9 Recommendations and compliance mechanisms constitute a comprehensive set of measures to combat money laundering, counter-terrorism financing and facilitate cooperation between law enforcement authorities around the world. Recommendation […]

Since 2013, non-profit organizations (NPOs) operating in Nigeria have been designated as obliged reporting entities under various national anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) programs and regimes. SPACES FOR CHANGE has led advocacy pushing back on governmental restrictions on civil society either framed around countering terrorism and protecting national security or resulting from the perception of […]

Memorandum Submitted at the Public Hearing on the bill to amend CAMA 2020 to the Senate Committee on Trade and Investments and Diaspora and NGOs, MARCH 2022.   Download the Memorandum here:

A new NGO Bill, HB. 712 & 673, has scaled through first reading in the Nigerian House of Representatives. Sponsored by Senator Abass Tajudeen, the bill seeks ‘’An Act to Establish the Civil Society Regulatory Commission and for Connected Purposes’’, this latest NGO Bill accounts as the third major attempt to introduce a bill that […]