The Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG) is a consortium of several Civil Society Organizations with a large repertoire of media partners birthed with the sole purpose of assisting the government and the people in ensuring that effective services are rendered by government institutions especially those that have been mandated specific statutory functions. Importantly, the covenant of ISDMG is premised on assessing and verifying on- going and completed physical projects and ascertaining the quality of Service Delivery by Federal, State and Local Government, Ministries/Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

Following the return of Nigeria to democratic rule, the political firmament became more or less recharged. This came with the need to do things right. The Nigeria civil service came under great scrutiny, contracts were screened and agencies and commissions to control corruption all came into being.
Government seemed not to be satisfied and it went further by insisting that all its agencies implement a feedback mechanism that will ensure that government lived up to its promise to the citizens by drawing what has come to be known as the SERVICOM Charter.

It thus came out clearly that government was ready to x-ray its activities and subject it to public scrutiny.
However, as noble as this idea may be certain posers arose: Will government also score itself? Will government’s introspection be thorough and all revealing? Will its report sheet be credible? This gap to be filled led to the conception of the idea of a civil society watch coalition aimed at ensuring that those entrusted with public funds put such funds to the use for which they were given. The Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group was therefore birthed with the purpose of providing honest, unbiased, independent and transparent assessment of Government’s activities especially in the different Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

The ISDMG, 6years (since 2005) verified and assessed the activities of some Government agencies a few of which are Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) under the leadership of pioneer Executive Secretary Barr. Yusuf Hamisu Abubakar, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Education Trust Fund (ETF), and the Government of Ondo State (Under Dr. Olusegun Agagu).