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The DRGs funding for MDGs projects and programmes represents only a small fraction <strong>of</strong><br />

funds committed <strong>to</strong> poverty-reduction in the country. Almost every budgetary expenditure <strong>of</strong><br />

the three tiers <strong>of</strong> government, in principle, contributes <strong>to</strong> poverty reduction. However, the<br />

DRGs fund and activities hinged on it have become major advocacy and sensitisation efforts<br />

for the feasibility <strong>of</strong> poverty eradication in <strong>Nigeria</strong> with all the human and natural resources<br />

at the country‘s disposal.<br />

The OSSAP-MDGs, as a coordinating <strong>of</strong>fice for the national response <strong>to</strong> the Goals, has<br />

demonstrated the importance <strong>of</strong> planning, moni<strong>to</strong>ring and creative policymaking <strong>to</strong> public<br />

administration, which have been the lost ingredients in governance. The moni<strong>to</strong>ring and<br />

evaluation exercise <strong>of</strong> the DRGs spend carried out in accordance with its OPEN framework,<br />

provides an incomplete picture <strong>of</strong> the status <strong>of</strong> <strong>Nigeria</strong>‘s progress <strong>to</strong>wards achieving the<br />

MDGs. The complementary part <strong>of</strong> that picture, if at all possible, should be made up <strong>of</strong> an<br />

evaluation <strong>of</strong> expenditures from the DRGs at the level <strong>of</strong> state governments, and <strong>of</strong> the<br />

annual budgets <strong>of</strong> all the three tiers <strong>of</strong> government. Other picture elements <strong>of</strong> the MDG<br />

progress would include expenditures by international NGOs, private sec<strong>to</strong>r CSR initiatives,<br />

developmental assistance by foreign governments, and community self-help projects. This<br />

M&E report, focusing as it does only on the DRGs spend, gives an opinion only on the<br />

potential contribution <strong>of</strong> the DRGs <strong>to</strong> the specific items <strong>of</strong> the MDGs.

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