Learning, Evidence and Advocacy Partnership (LEAP)
Led by ODI, the Learning, Evidence and Advocacy Partnership (LEAP) is one of three pillars that make up the Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL) funded by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). PERL is a governance programme that brings together governments and citizens groups to collectively address governance challenges associated with the delivery of pro-poor public goods and services in Nigeria.
Flagship report
Twenty years of UK governance programmes in Nigeria: achievements, challenges, lessons and implications for future support
The report shares findings of an unprecedented research into how the UK government partnered with four Northern Nigerian States and worked with government officials, parliaments, civil society and the media to reform how policies and budgets are prepared and implemented. The report puts forward 15 recommendations to governments, development agencies, civil society and other practitioners to improve governance and development programmes.
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Webinar series
Over the past two years, LEAP has undertaken research on PERL and predecessor UK Government-funded programmes to strengthen the evidence base for governance reform in Nigeria. With LEAP coming to a close at the end of October 2021, we are organising a series of public events to share lessons from 20 years of UK governance programmes in Nigeria.
The events will showcase findings and lessons from our research on the impact of PERL and predecessor programmes on core governance reforms and service delivery improvements, as well as ways of working, looking in particular at 20 years of UK investment in four Northern states in Nigeria. We will ask:
- How can governance reforms be supported effectively, including in terms of bringing more closely together the ‘demand’ side (citizen voice) with the ‘supply’ side (state capacity, accountability, and responsiveness)?
- Is governance linked to improved services, and, if so, how?
- How can international development actors think in more politically aware ways and design and implement complex reform programmes that are anchored in learning and adaptation?
To attend the webinars please visit the event pages above and click on the “register now” button.
Videos
About LEAP
LEAP leads on learning across PERL. It works closely with the other two PERL pillars, Accountable, Responsive and Capable Government (ARC) and Engaged Citizens (ECP), to ensure that the programme has the space to reflect, iterate and adapt in real time in response to both internal reflection and research emerging from within the programme.
With workstreams focusing on learning and adaptation, research and evidence, and communications and knowledge management, LEAP has two core objectives:
- To develop greater clarity and a shared understanding of what learning means across PERL, and to support and capture learning and adaptations through a variety of processes and mechanisms (see LEAP-led learning and adaptation approach); and
- To better understand and strengthen the evidence base for governance reform in Nigeria by analysing the impact of PERL and predecessor FCDO-funded programmes on core governance reforms and service delivery improvements, and drawing out implications for future governance programming in Nigeria and beyond (see LEAP-led research and evidence approach).
If you would like to learn more about PERL , please visit the programme website.
The team
- Adejumobi Fashola – Learning Facilitator
- Adekolapo Adegboyega - Operations Manager
- Alina Rocha Menocal – Deputy Project Director
- Anne Buffardi - Researcher
- Bamidele Aderigidge – Learning and Adaptation Manager
- Clare Cummings - Researcher
- Ed Laws – Researcher
- Emmanuel Obande – Learning Officer
- Gareth Williams – Research and Evidence Lead
- Helen Derbyshire – Researcher
- Jem Cairney - Project manager
- Jon Mitchell – Strategic Advisor
- Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou - Project Director
- Laure-Helene Piron – Technical Director
- Myani Bukar – National Team Lead
- Onyinye Oguntoye – Communications and Knowledge Management Manager
- Paola Abis - Communications and Knowledge Management Lead
- Samuel Sharp – Researcher
- Tiina Pasanen – Learning Advisor
- Tobechukwu Nneli – Research Manager
- Tom Aston – Learning Advisor
- Yetunde Adegoke – Learning and Adaptation Lead
Donors and partners
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UK AID (UK AID)
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Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL)
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The Policy Practice
