The Coalitions for Change Programme (C4C) is a direct response to DFID Nigeria's Drivers of Change analysis which argued that individuals and organisations acting on their own would be hard-pressed to drive meaningful long-term change. So, to tackle the fundamental constraints to change in Nigeria, an approach was developed that identifies and supports coalitions of interest across civil society, government, the private sector and the media.
These coalitions are working on issues that engage their stakeholders and have the potential to lead to institutional change.
C4C is DFID Nigeria's main vehicle for supporting and testing this new and innovative 'issues-based approach' (IBA) to development. It has now developed and implemented a series of eight specific issue-based projects (IBPs). These in turn aim to drive change in the institutions that sustain two of the principal constraints to Nigeria's achievement of the MDGs: the mismanagement of public revenues and weak formal accountability.
IBPs 