SPP has helped to increase activities of civil society in Nigeria. This has created consciousness on the part of government. Successful execution of key developmental projects, which may be otherwise abandoned.

Added a voice to efforts of civil society, thereby, helping to create attention to messages from CSOs.

Some of the SPP’s international connections has help at mounting pressure on government to do the right things. Building a foundation for technological development through training and retraining.

Provision of technical aid, where the right skills are not available. This has direct impacts on the fiscal policies, as skills are developed to make good policies. SPP has shaped fiscal policies of government, through inputs received from civil society. This was made possible through partnership with Oxfam, which should be praised!

“I have learnt a lot from NDEBUMOG, as follows”:

Budgeting individually at household level and on how government budgets.

Learnt about gender equality.

Community needs assessment.

Monitoring and evaluation, which is not only to establish businesses but being able to monitor it effectively to achieved desired result.

I want to thank NDEBUMOG, because, through NDEBUMOG, women, were able to hire land, planted vegetables, waterleaf, and cassava, etc.

NDEBUMOG gives women a sense of belonging.

Peace enumerated the following benefits from being, NDEBUMOG Staff:

Learning and growing in the process of working

Adequate knowledge on gender equality- she demands for her right nowadays, even within a cultural setting that marginalizes women.

She is bold and courageous.

She has been trained on self-development, so she can meet, demands of life.

“I attended training on gender sensitivity, and this has greatly helped me in self- programming and community development. I now volunteers for other organization and used the knowledge gained to do gender programming e: g, distributions of books to school, especially, to female adolescents, etc”.

“I am proud to see women efforts in NDEBUMOG, after trainings”. Women were able to form themselves into budget tracking and livelihood groups, bought lands, planted, harvested and made inflows to be used for budget tracking”. “NDEBUMOG also empowered women through Livelihood activities, example, poultry is in progress”.

“After the SPP Town Hall Meeting at Awgu that I attended, it assisted me to do my work with ease”.

“As HOD-Budget, I now conduct needs assessment among communities in the LGA” “Needs are analyzed   and prioritized for chairman’s approval, where necessary”.

“After attending a fiscal related training on taxation by NDEBUMOG, capacity I garnered capacity that engendered my appointment as a member of Anambra State Committee on Bilateral Projects. It is a committee that interfaces on budget discussions with different Ministries, Departments and Agencies”.

“Also, I am a member of Anambra State Budget monitoring Group, which does drafts, monitoring and tracking of budgets’ implementations”.

“SPP through NDEBUMOG influences my constructive thinking towards budget development and inclusion of PLWD in fiscal programs”.

“After attending a (Gender Based Budget) training for women and planning officers of LGAs, under the SPP, which was strategic, I partook in budget development for my LGA”.

“I influenced a gender-based budget, conducted needs assessment and saw that a health center, which needed a good toilet and facilitated the process of building a good toilet and succeeded”.

Chika said, “ I met with Chairman of a Local Government to convinced him to include only projects, which he thinks, he can do in the budget… Transparency and accountability have been my watch word, due to influence of fiscal trainings from NDEBUMOG”.

“I was chosen to be the head of an audit group, found different issues, addressed it, though almost turned negatively on my job. However, after NDEBUMOG’s training, i braced up and has faced life positively”.

Gertrude said, “I attended 3 trainings and went back to advocate for the inclusion of women in the village council. As at today, percentage of women in the village council has increased to between 40-60”.

Barr. Ebere, said, she thought, “budget was an official document, which cannot be gotten by anybody”. However, it was given to her, when she demanded for it from the budget office in her state through fiscal capacity and exposure through the SPP”. This was after she attended a training organized by NDEBUMOG. She said, “…needs assessment was conducted with a Local Government Chairman about projects in the community, which was, after another needs assessment training by NDEBUMOG”. She said, “There were deliberations with the Chairman and water, as a basic need was provided”. NDEBUMOG was delighted to hear that “…wow, there is good water in the community”.

He said, after trainings through SPP on shadow budgeting, Pius and others picked some capital projects for monitoring in various communities. They looked out for levels of completion and different years of planning in the budget. Some 2016 budget line items in the Rivers State University were repeated in 2018, even while, they discovered, there was no work done in (previous) 2016 allocation. According to Pius, it was discovered, different roads were not constructed, as was captured in the budget. He said, reports were sent to appropriate quarters to address those issues. He mentioned quality monitoring and evaluation, getting pre and post pictures, enhances results. Monitoring federal government’s budget, which was the beginning of knowledge through mentorship by NDEBUMOG accelerated his expertise in budget work.