CSEA’s Director of Research, Dr Adedeji Adeniran, participated in the RISE Annual conference 2023. The two-day conference was held at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK from 21-22 September 2023. The conference marked the end of the RISE Programme, encompassing comprehensive discussions of the various themes that have been explored in the past decade.

During this period, various research under the Programme were undertaken in Mexico, Nepal, Jordan, Tanzania, Liberia, Botswana, Nigeria, India and South Africaas well as other developing countries.

The conference featured eight (8) research sessions and one (1) invited panel session. Dr Adeniran participated in the session on “Foundation Learning and Instructional Coherence” where he presented the research paper on Instructional Alignment in Nigeria using the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum.

CSEA in partnership with Cancer Research UK and Development Gateway and the Federal Ministry of Health conducted a multistate Capacity Development Workshop on Tobacco Control in five states (Oyo, Rivers, Enugu, Gombe and Kano).

The workshop was designed to provide a platform for stakeholders in the tobacco sector to discuss findings from CSEA’s latest research titled “Nigeria Tobacco Policy Landscape: The Role of States in Tobacco Control”.

The workshops consisted of various sessions which included: presentations of the research brief and the MPOWER framework as well as a practical session on how to use the the toolkit on tobacco control developed by CSEA’s Research team and a demonstration of the Tobacco Control Data Initiative (TCDI) dashboard on the Development Gateway platform.

The group break out sessions provided a platform for participants to discuss various issues around tobacco based on prevalence, taxation, Tobacco harm, industry interference, illicit trade, and shisha.

Stakeholders were drawn from across various institutions including the states Ministries of Health and Environment, the Nigerian Customs Service and other Non-governmental Organisations.

You can read the policy brief here.

CSEA’s Director of Research, Dr Adedeji Adeniran, participated in 2023 UKFIET conference which brought together scholars and practitioners in the field of international education, training, and learning for diverse and critical dialogue and debate on ways forward in this crucial field of research and practice. The Conference which was held under the theme Education for Social & Environmental Justice was held at the University of Oxford Examination Schools, Oxford, UK., from September 12 to 14, 2023.

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CSEA in collaboration with the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)convened experts and stakeholders at dissemination event titled “Towards Reconciling Economic and Debt Management Policies with Gender and Climate Objectives in Nigeria,” in Abuja on Wednesday, September 6 2023, to deliberate research findings from a three-fold report that shed light on fundamental fiscal policy options for growing out debt in Nigeria.

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CSEA hosted its founder, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at a breakfast session in Abuja Nigeria, together with the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Nigeria Mr. Cui Jianchun; Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Nigeria, H.E. Zdeněk KREJČÍ;  Lukas Schifferle, Deputy Head of Mission at Embassy of Switzerland in Nigeria; and Topias Tamminen Deputy Head of Mission at Embassy of Finland in Nigeria.

Also at the meeting was the Executive Director of CSEA, Dr. Chukwuka Onyekwena, the CEO of NOIPolls, Dr Chike Nwangwu and CSEA’s Director of Research, Dr. Adedeji Adeniran.

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala also received the Nigerians in the Diaspora Icon award from the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), presented by the CEO of NIDCOM , Hon. Abike Dabiri Erewa.