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