Hamzat Lawal – ‘Follow The Money’ Can Save Lives

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Hamzat Lawal is an activist who has successfully led grassroots campaigns in over 40 African countries with over 15 years experience in the non-profit sector and specializes in practical issues associated with Climate Change, Open Data, advocacy campaigns and development policies as it affects rural and deprived grassroots communities.

He is also the Founder of Follow The Money, the largest Pan-African grassroots data-driven movement and leads a team of technology and innovation-driven campaigners to amplify the voices of marginalized grassroots communities in promoting accountability as it affects utilization of public funds focusing on specific communities across Africa. His Follow The Money initiative emerged winner of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Mobilizer 2019 Award, at the Bonn SDG Global Festival of Action, Germany.

Hamzat Lawal an important story on building advocacy and accountability effort that transformed lives of children and women who had previously died from lead poison in Zamfara State, Nigeria.

Hamzat Lawal in 2015 was a graceful speaker at the Statesman Idea with FemiDlive were he spoke on accountability and the dynamic initiative of Follow The Money; his ideas at the event have formed the fundamentals of advocacy among Nigeria youths and success of democracy in many African nations.

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