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Strategic Objectives
1. Capacity Building
Engagements by the private sector and state institutions must benefit the societies they are affecting and are affected by. SDN will assist communities and civil society groups in overcoming capacity gaps to maximise their bargaining power. SDN will then facilitate the identification of leverage points over the private sector, government and other stakeholders, to use this local bargaining power to modify policies and practice and promote sustainable development solutions.
2. Awareness Raising / Research
SDN will produce a body of research and analysis that systematically documents the impact of weak governance, multinational and national extractive companies in the Niger Delta, from the perspective of the communities that are worst affected. This work will be used to identify national and international leverage points within companies and governments based on the economics of ethical engagement with communities and thus it will seek to transform these engagements so that they benefit society as a whole.
3. Replication
SDN would like to share its initial findings from working in the Niger Delta with other regions in the global South facing the resource curse and in turn learn lessons that will further enhance the model of rational stakeholder negotiation that SDN is developing in the Niger Delta. By 2011 SDN will have developed a template for similar facilitation of and networking between stakeholders in other countries and regions or in other extractive industries.
