International Budget Partnership 125d ago

🌾 From subsistence farmer to state-level budget advocate, Mama Oyo's story shows what becomes possible when women gain the tools to demand their fair share of government investment. 💪 Roseline Atinuke Akinbade — known as Mama Oyo — joined the Small Scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria (SWOFON) in 2016 and discovered that the government's agriculture budget could work for her community. With training from IBP's SPARK program, SWOFON uncovered a critical finding: women handle 75% of Nigeria's food processing but receive almost none of the agriculture funding. 📊 Armed with data and determination, Mama Oyo began engaging directly with Oyo State's Ministry of Agriculture — building a partnership with Abimbola Agbaje, Head of Women in Agriculture, that transformed advocacy into lasting government commitment. 🇳🇬 In 2024, for the first time, allocated agriculture funds reached smallholder women farmers in Oyo State, delivering farming tools, equipment, and training to thousands of women who grow Nigeria's food. 🌍 This is what budget transparency looks like in practice: communities don't just demand a seat at the table — they help set the agenda, shape the budget, and harvest the results. 🎯 Press play and discover how one woman's journey is changing Nigeria's agricultural future. ✨ 📊 Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction: Mama Oyo's Life Before SWOFON 01:00 - Joining SWOFON and Discovering Advocacy 02:00 - IBP Budget Training and the 75% Finding 03:00 - Building Partnership with Oyo State Ministry of Agriculture 04:00 - 2024 Breakthrough: Agriculture Funds Reach Women Farmers 05:00 - When You Train a Woman, You Train a Nation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Explore More Resources ✨ 🔗 IBP's Nigeria Country Work: https://internationalbudget.org/countries/ 🔗 SWOFON - Small Scale Women Farmers Organization in Nigeria: https://shwfarmers.net/ 🔗 IBP's Work on Gender-Responsive Budgeting: https://www.internationalbudget.org/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About This Channel Welcome to the International Budget Partnership – your gateway to transparent, inclusive, and accountable public budgeting worldwide. 🌍✨ Discover the transformative power of fiscal transparency and embark on a journey toward democratic governance and social justice. Our content is crafted to: 🏛️💚 Advance transparent and participatory budget processes 🌍❤️ Strengthen civil society engagement in fiscal policy 🚪🌟 Promote accountability in government spending and revenue 💭✨ Cultivate informed public participation in budget decisions Whether you're a civil society advocate, policymaker, researcher, or engaged citizen, we provide tools for budget analysis, fiscal advocacy, and democratic participation. Join us as we work toward a world where fiscal systems serve all people equitably—one budget at a time. Subscribe now and make budget transparency a part of your advocacy toolkit. 📊🏛️🌍 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔🚨 Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/@IntBudgetPartnership?sub_confirmation=1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #BudgetTransparency #FiscalTransparency #OpenBudgets #TransparentBudgets #AccessibleBudgets #OpenFiscalData #GovernmentAccountability #PublicAccountability #BudgetOversight #BudgetMonitoring #BudgetCredibility #ExternalAudits #PublicAudit #SupremeAuditInstitutions #SocialAudits #ParticipatoryBudgeting #BudgetParticipation #BudgetAdvocacy #AdvocateForBudgets #BudgetLiteracy #FiscalLiteracy #CivicEngagement #CivicBudgeting #BudgetEducation #PublicSpending #GovernmentSpending #PublicExpenditure #StateExpenditure #FiscalPolicy #EquitableFiscalPolicy #EconomicJustice #FiscalJustice #TaxEquity #FairTaxation #DebtAccountability #ResponsibleDebt #GenderBudgeting #GenderResponsiveBudgets #InclusiveBudgets #BudgetsForAll #InternationalBudgetPartnership #IBP #IBPGlobal #OpenBudgetSurvey #OBS #OpenGovernmentFinance #OpenGovFinance #SAI #BudgetJustice #PeoplePoweredFinance #BudgetInclusion #RightToInformation #PublicFinanceMatters #DemocratizingFinance #FiscalDemocracy #CivicPower #TransparencyMatters #AuditTheBudget #BudgetForEquity #BudgetChampions #OpenData #RightsBasedBudgeting #FiscalActivism #AccountableSpending #DataForAccountability