The Centre for Extractives and Development Africa (CEDA) is a research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting better governance of mineral resources in Africa. Established in 2014, CEDA works with partners across the continent to ensure that natural resource revenues are used effectively to improve the lives of African citizens. Through evidence-based research and advocacy, CEDA aims to influence policy decisions and promote sustainable development strategies that maximize the benefits of mineral extraction while minimizing its negative impacts.
A future where the strategies for the exploitation of Africa’s extractive resources are derived from and placed at the centre of its development policy discourse to promote efficient management of the mineral and petroleum endowment of the continent for the public good.
CEDA works to place Africa’s extractive sector at the centre of its development policy discourse through evidence-based research, training and capacity building, policy advocacy and citizen mobilisation for the efficient, transparent and accountable management of the sector for the improvement of national life.
To be a leading regional centre in Africa’s extractives and development policy discourse through evidentiary based research, training, citizen’s mobilisation and advocacy.
CEDA seeks to promote and adopts a no-compromise stand on the following values:
