Category: Publications

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 […]

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 […]