The Nigeria Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project is a five-year project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Palladium through a cooperative agreement with USAID. The goal of the project is to improve public accountability, transparency, and sustainable service delivery in Nigeria. The strategic objective is to strengthen the financial, management, and advocacy capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) and business membership organizations (BMOs) in Nigeria to create a more accountable, transparent, peaceful, and democratic Nigeria with more effective and efficient public service delivery. The Project emphasizes leadership and innovation and explicitly aims to engage marginalized populations, including women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other minorities in the process.

The project has five main components:

• 1. Improve Organizational Capacity; Managerial, Financial, and Institutional capacity.
• 2. Enhance Capacity for Improved CSOs/BMOs Advocacy, Collaboration, and Management.
• 3. Improve the Policy and Regulatory Enabling Environment for Civil Society.
• 4. Countering Trafficking in Persons (CTIP); and
• 5. Sector (Sexual and gender-based violence, Child and Early Forced Marriage) Strengthening and Advocacy

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