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CHAPTER 10: DOMESTICATION OF THE MDGS
The quest to achieve the MDGs in Nigeria
represents the country‘s commitment to the global
partnership that originated from the country‘s
endorsement of the Millennium Declaration at the
Millennium Summit of 2000. Because the MDGs
are stated as stand-alone goals, national attempts
to achieve them often blur the multi-sectoral links
between all goals, targets and indicators. From the
on-set, the OSSAP-MDGs implementation
strategy was based on the understanding that the
Millennium Development goals and targets are
interrelated and should be addressed as a whole.
This is why the MDGs have been closely
integrated with the country‘s national
development agenda.
In the Nigerian context, the MDGs represent a
social investment in line with the country‘s Vision
20:2020, and to help integrate the DRGs
investments into the wider developmental goals of
the country‘s development strategies, the OSSAP-
MDGs is mandated to:
Sensitise senior public sector
managers in collaboration with
the Ministry of Finance,
Budget Office, Debt
Management Office, National
Planning Commission and
NAPEP in the design and
implementation of Virtual
Poverty Fund (VPF);
Evolve a consultative process
meant to identify key strategic
areas likely to have the
greatest impact on achieving
MDGs with senior public
service managers,
representatives of IDPs, the
World Bank, DFID, UNDP
and civil society;
Design appropriate systems to
tag and track public
expenditure line items that will
impact on the MDGs at both
national and state levels;
Work in collaboration with the
MOF, BOF, NPC and DMO
for the operation of a virtual
poverty fund designed to effect
results from the use of
domestic resources derivable
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