The Partnership for Agile Governance and Climate Engagement (PACE) is a 48-month programme funded by the United Kingdom’s International Development and managed by DAI Global UK in collaboration with specialist partners, including The Policy Practice, Women Environmental Programme, The International Centre for Energy, Environment and Development, Accountability Lab, Integrity, and Bridge that Gap Nigeria.
PACE aims to support partnerships that advance Nigeria’s governance and climate objectives, ensuring that poor and vulnerable citizens benefit from accountable institutions, stronger climate resilience, improved public services, and inclusive economic growth.
The programme focuses on strengthening governance and climate systems as foundations for inclusive economic growth, investment confidence, and job creation.
Key interventions include improving public financial management, budget credibility, procurement integrity, audit effectiveness, and fiscal transparency, while integrating climate action into policy, planning, and financing.
PACE also supports trade facilitation, private sector participation, and climate-positive investment by enhancing regulatory, institutional, and market conditions.
Operating through multi-stakeholder partnerships at both federal and subnational levels, PACE engages government, civil society, media, research institutions, and the private sector.
Media engagement, knowledge management, and thought leadership ensure that reforms are visible, understood, and widely supported.
Adaptive political economy analysis guides the sequencing and implementation of programme activities.
The programme applies a Whole of Society approach that advances democratic systems, citizen influence, and institutional performance, including governance of climate finance.
PACE builds on over two decades of governance reform experience in Nigeria, drawing lessons from programmes such as PERL (Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn), SPARC (State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability), SAVI (State Accountability and Voice Initiative), and the State and Local Government Programme (SLGP).
While implementation is focused on Kaduna, Kano, and Jigawa states, PACE’s targeted federal and regional engagement ensures influence extends across all thirty-six states of the federation.