By Linus Aleke
On Tuesday, the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD) began the capacity building of state and non-state actors on the open government partnership (OGP) in Ondo state.

The Program Coordinator of the Centre, Mr Lawal Amodu, in a statement, said the capacity building is targeted at both government and civil society organizations in the state.

He said, the training which is captured under its project “Deepening Transparency and Accountability in the governance process through the implementation of Open Government Partnership in Nigeria” with support from the MacArthur Foundation, is meant to bring the actors up to speed with the understanding of the OGP principles to facilitate a smooth implementation of the action plan.

He also, noted that the Ondo State Action Plan will be developed during the training programme.

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Mr Amodu added that the Open Government Partnership is hinged on the principles of Co-creation which necessitates that government and the civil society actors work together on the best strategy to bring development to the people, while government drives the process.

“Ondo state is amongst the latest to sign up to the OGP in Nigeria with the intent to make governance process in the state open, transparent, and accountable to the needs of its citizens. Today a total of 24 states have signed up to the principle which is governed by four key principles: Transparency, Accountability, Citizens Participation and Technology and Innovation,” the statement concluded.