OrderPaper Nigeria will host the national assembly committees on health in a citizens’ meet-up webinar to discuss healthcare funding, budget tracking and service delivery during the OCID-19 pandemic.
According to Oke Epia, executive director, OrderPaper Nigeria, the programme is in furtherance of the organisation’s citizen-parliament engagements.
In the third edition of the monthly OPEN – Online Parliamentary Engagement Nigeria – civil society groups and citizens be engaging Chukwuka Utazi, chairman senate committee on primary health care and communicable diseases; and Tanko Sununu, chairman, house of representatives committee on health care services.
The webinar will take place by 2pm on Tuesday.
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It will moderated by Epia alongside Greg Anyaegbudike, federal team leader, PERL- Engaged Citizens.
This special citizens-parliament meet-up is being implemented in collaboration with Partnership to Engage Reform and Learn (PERL) of the British Department for International Department (DFID).
OPEN was launched as a platform to have virtual discussions with lawmakers, civil society actors and other professionals with the view to increase citizen’s participation in legislative business.
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The first edition had Akin Alabi, chairman house committee on inter governmental affairs, and Nimah Arigbagu, a public policy expert, as guests.
The second edition featured Benjamin Kalu, spokesman of the green chamber; Adebowale Olorunmola, country representative of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and Frank Tietie, executive director, Citizens Advocacy for Economic and Social Rights (CASER).
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