Thinking and Acting Politically Supporting citizen engagement in governance: The experience of the State Accountability and Voice Initiative in Nigeria

This paper has been written to share some of the working methods, lessons and insights emerging from the State Accountability and Voice Initiative’s (SAVI) experience and to contribute to debates on effective governance programming within DFID. It shows to what extent SAVI, building on lessons learned in programmes funded by DFID Nigeria over the past decade, is succeeding in supporting more responsive state governance, and how a sustained pattern of constructive engagement between citizens and state governments is beginning to emerge.