Passing Nigeria’s Tobacco Control Regulations

Client: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Washington DC Context: Four years after the passage of Nigeria’s National Control Act 2019, the regulations needed to implement the law stalled at the parliament. With a few months left until the end of the tenure of the members, our client engaged us to develop a high-impact advocacy and pressure campaign […]

5 ways your organisation should engage with government

An African telecommunications market leader, MTN was fined by Nigerian government regulators sometime in October 2015. The company eventually paid the government a hefty sum of over US$1 billion, representing about 20% of its market capitalisation. The firm survived this regulatory action through a costly negotiation process that involved many consultants including lawyers, accountants and […]

Building National Support for an anti-tobacco regulation

Client: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Washington DC Context: Gatefield in partnership with CTFK, and other in-country civil society partners successfully lobbied the Federal Ministry of Health to approve nine tobacco control regulations and generated huge media coverage for the ministerial announcement on the May 31st World No Tobacco Day event. Understanding that the measures would […]