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Goal 3 sets out to promote gender equality and
empower women, with four indicators of progress.
Two of these indicators (i.e., ratio of girls to boys‘
enrolment in all level of education, and literacy
rate of women to men between the ages of 15-24)
appear to receive more attention and have made
more progress than the others. Very little progress
has been made in measuring and increasing share
of women in wage employment in non-agricultural
sector, while DRG projects targeted at increasing
the number of seats held by women in national
parliament were not monitored due to late release
of information to the M&E consultants.
The report presents the health-related Goals 4, 5
and 6 together due to interconnectedness of
expenditures and activities on each. The greatest
investment in these Goals was made through the
Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS), which
represented 43% of total expenditures on them.
Projects under Quick-Wins scheme, though 58.7%
completed, suffer more from lack of communitydriven
needs assessment.
Compared to the previous years, a general
improvement in the execution of Goal-7-related
projects was noted. A total of 7,190 intervention
projects in the 2009 budget were geared towards
achieving Goal 7,which hopes to ensure
environmental sustainability inNigeria. The
projects were spread among different MDAs such
as the Federal Ministry of Housing (182 projects),
the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs (41
projects) and the Federal Ministry of Defence (24
projects). Special Projects in the Quick-Wins
Sector (with 3,039 projects) and the Conditional
Grants Sector (with 3,904) also got appropriations.
Projects under Police Affairs recorded the highest
performance with 100% completion, though some
were poorly executed.
This M&E report, for the first time, attempts to
evaluate progress being made on Goal 8, which is
not a DRGs-funded Goal. The report notes that
global partners failed in fulfilling their own terms
for meeting this Goal and, by extension, the other
Goals. Most indicators for this Goal have not been
met, except for debt relief granted Nigeria in 2005.
Pervasive discontentment with the responses of
global partners and the desire to deepen
sustainability of the achievements has spurred the
OSSAP-MDGs to domesticate most of the Goals,
notching the standards of indicators higher than
the internationally agreed ones. In the case of Goal
8, the domestication took the form of looking
inward to form a country-level partnership for
development with other tiers of government and
the private sector, following the failure of
developed nations to transfer technology and
increase developmental aid to Nigeria.
Challenges encountered and the lessons learned in
the course of implementing the 2009 projects are
documented in the report. Notable among these is
the exclusion of certain groups of potential
beneficiaries during project design. Stringent
applications of conditions in the Conditional Cash
Transfer programme implemented by NAPEP
made a difference in 2009 as beneficiaries were
closely monitored in the utilisation of the funds.
The report noted underfunding, which threatens
sustainability of some projects, and delays in
project execution due to late release of funds to
contractors. Nevertheless, the report commends
the establishment of the OSSAP-MDGs as a
coordinating organ; this has removed rough edges
in the administration of DRGs-MDGs.
The report recommends an increase in budgetary
allocation, especially to education, particularly in
the building of more classes to cope with growing
enrolment of pupils as well as more training and
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