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from debt relief for poverty<br />
eradication programmes;<br />
In collaboration with the NPC,<br />
design a coherent approach <strong>to</strong><br />
achieving the MDGs and<br />
reporting periodically <strong>to</strong> the<br />
Economic Management Team<br />
(EMT);<br />
With the support <strong>of</strong> the NPC,<br />
provide quarterly reports <strong>to</strong> the<br />
Presidential Committee on<br />
progress and challenges <strong>to</strong> the<br />
delivery <strong>of</strong> the MDGs<br />
nationwide and <strong>to</strong> provide<br />
Secretariat services for the<br />
Presidential Committee;<br />
Assist in revision <strong>of</strong> sec<strong>to</strong>r<br />
plans harmonised with Vision<br />
20-2020 objectives <strong>to</strong> achieve<br />
the MDGs and incorporate<br />
them in<strong>to</strong> budget processes<br />
accordingly; and<br />
Develop in collaboration with<br />
other agencies, a matching<br />
grant mechanism incentive for<br />
states <strong>to</strong> undertake MDGs and<br />
set targets for implementation<br />
within the framework <strong>of</strong> their<br />
State Development Priorities.<br />
Armed with the above mandates and working<br />
through both national and international<br />
partnerships, OSSAP-MDGs has been able <strong>to</strong><br />
success<strong>full</strong>y domesticate the MDGs in <strong>Nigeria</strong> in a<br />
way that reflects the national, state, and local<br />
contexts. As a result, some <strong>of</strong> the MDGs‘ globally<br />
designed targets and indica<strong>to</strong>rs have been<br />
realigned <strong>to</strong> ensure that they relate <strong>to</strong> the realities<br />
in the country at all the three levels. OSSAP-<br />
MDGs has tried <strong>to</strong> do this through a series <strong>of</strong><br />
methodology consultations at the federal, state,<br />
and local levels most <strong>of</strong> which involved the<br />
country‘s political decision-makers and<br />
development partners as well as extensive civil<br />
society participation.<br />
In this context, therefore, one <strong>of</strong> the key findings<br />
<strong>of</strong> the M&E exercise is that OSSAP-MDGs has,<br />
whenever appropriate, introduced and moni<strong>to</strong>red<br />
additional indica<strong>to</strong>rs that reflect higher MDGrelated<br />
development endeavours committed <strong>to</strong> by<br />
governments at all levels. This way, OSSAP-<br />
MDGs has been able <strong>to</strong> ensure that the <strong>Nigeria</strong>n<br />
government through the priorities it has set in its<br />
broader development agenda is always in a<br />
position <strong>to</strong> own the overall MDGs agenda while at<br />
the same time complying with the global MDGs<br />
requirements. In this regard, OSSAP-MDGs has<br />
success<strong>full</strong>y demonstrated how the MDGs can be<br />
domesticated within the country‘s operational<br />
development agenda. OSSAP-MDGs has been<br />
able <strong>to</strong> accomplish this difficult task by:<br />
Twining MDGs indica<strong>to</strong>rs and<br />
those in the country‘s key<br />
development strategies in ways<br />
that permit both international<br />
comparisons as well as<br />
realistic interpretations <strong>of</strong> local<br />
reality. With this approach, the<br />
two sets <strong>of</strong> indica<strong>to</strong>rs can be<br />
used simultaneously with the<br />
global MDGs indica<strong>to</strong>rs used<br />
<strong>to</strong> facilitate international<br />
comparisons while the local<br />
indica<strong>to</strong>rs serve as a basis for<br />
moni<strong>to</strong>ring national<br />
development. For example, the<br />
OSSAP-MDGs is adopting a<br />
more demanding target,<br />
compared <strong>to</strong> that prescribed in<br />
the global MDG on education<br />
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