In order to draw appropriate lessons from Nigeria’s democratic experience since the commencement of the Fourth Republic, the Savannah Centre convened a commemorative workshop marking “Nigeria’s 17 years of democratic governance” in May 2016.
The SCDDD carried out a 3 –day retreat in Nasarawa State for Commissioners, Special Advisers and Assistants, Principal Officers of the State Assembly, Permanent Secretaries and some CEOs of parastatals in December 2015.
In November 2014, the Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), hosted a “Regional Workshop on Combating Insecurity and Violent Extremism in the Sahel: Implications for Socio-Economic Development”.
| In August 2014, Savannah Centre, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, created a Council of the Wise consisting of elder statesmen who served as a trusted voice for the promotion of peaceful elections during Nigeria’s 2015 elections. |
The SCDDD replicated a 3 – day retreat in Kogi State on “Innovative Strategies for the Development of Kogi State” in August 2016, aimed at collaborating with the State Government to generate more realistic or innovative ideas that would practically leverage on the States exploitable human and material resources and build capacities focused on learning from the lessons of the past to promote durable unity and peaceful co-existence among the multi-ethnic groups of the state for sustainable economic growth and development that would bring the State to a comparative development level with the rest of the federating units.
