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with the responsibility <strong>of</strong> evolving creative<br />

national, state, and local processes for identifying<br />

key strategic interventions that are likely <strong>to</strong> have<br />

the greatest impact on achieving the MDGs, and<br />

then designing appropriate systems for tagging<br />

and tracking public expenditure line items that<br />

will impact on the MDGs at all levels.<br />

The Millennium Declaration provided the<br />

opportunity for <strong>Nigeria</strong> <strong>to</strong> re-focus on the MDGs<br />

as important pillars <strong>of</strong> the country‘s development<br />

agenda including its Vision 20:2020. The DRGs<br />

provided the much-needed additional resources<br />

specifically targeted at the MDGs (<strong>to</strong> date<br />

approximately N570billion has been appropriated<br />

for pro – poor MDG related programmes) and<br />

highlighted the importance <strong>of</strong> measuring the<br />

results <strong>of</strong> development initiatives. With the<br />

establishment <strong>of</strong> OSSAP-MDGs <strong>to</strong> track and<br />

coordinate expenditures on the MDGs, <strong>Nigeria</strong><br />

became one <strong>of</strong> the first African nations <strong>to</strong><br />

demonstrate ample political will <strong>to</strong> adopt a resultsbased<br />

approach <strong>to</strong>wards poverty reduction and<br />

improvement in the living standards <strong>of</strong> its people.<br />

The <strong>of</strong>fice became the secretariat for both the<br />

Presidential and Steering Committees on MDGs.<br />

Moni<strong>to</strong>ring and evaluation <strong>of</strong> the inputs, activities,<br />

outputs, and outcomes <strong>of</strong> the DRG investments<br />

was an expected corollary <strong>of</strong> the country‘s<br />

political will <strong>to</strong> build and entrench a culture <strong>of</strong><br />

good governance manifested by a movement<br />

<strong>to</strong>wards accountability and transparency, greater<br />

development effectiveness, and the delivery <strong>of</strong><br />

tangible results at all levels.<br />

OSSAP-MDGs’ Results-Based Moni<strong>to</strong>ring and<br />

Evaluation Framework<br />

To enable systematic tracking <strong>of</strong> the Debt Relief<br />

Gains (DRGs), a Virtual Poverty Fund (VPF),<br />

otherwise known as Overview <strong>of</strong> Public<br />

Expenditure under NEEDS (OPEN), was<br />

established. The VPF is a mechanism <strong>of</strong> tagging<br />

specific poverty-reducing items in the national<br />

budget and tracking their performance. Its<br />

operation entails integrating the MDGs<br />

interventions resulting from debt relief as budget<br />

line items in the relevant sec<strong>to</strong>rs anchored on the<br />

various MDAs or States. OPEN is the wider<br />

process, <strong>of</strong> which the M&E framework is but one<br />

component for tracking the performance <strong>of</strong> DRG<br />

investments and evaluating their impact. Through<br />

the involvement <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional consultants and<br />

civil society organisations (CSOs), this M&E<br />

framework enables OSSAP-MDGs <strong>to</strong> empower<br />

Governments at all levels (Federal, State, and<br />

Local Government) <strong>to</strong> demonstrate the results <strong>of</strong><br />

their efforts <strong>to</strong> use DRGs funds, as well as funds<br />

from other government sources, <strong>to</strong> achieve the<br />

MDGs.<br />

The OPEN is driven by independent moni<strong>to</strong>ring<br />

and evaluation pr<strong>of</strong>essionals comprising a<br />

consulting firm and a CSO at the national level<br />

(jointly constituting the National Moni<strong>to</strong>ring and<br />

Evaluation Team, NMET); supported by) State<br />

Moni<strong>to</strong>ring and Evaluation Teams (SMETs), also<br />

comprising <strong>of</strong> consultants and CSOs or<br />

community based organisation (CBOs). An<br />

important aspect <strong>of</strong> the OPEN process is the<br />

development and application <strong>of</strong> a web-based<br />

NMET M&E portal <strong>to</strong> streamline the data<br />

collected by the state teams for s<strong>to</strong>rage and<br />

analysis. During the 2009 M&E exercise, the<br />

database created using the portal was enhanced <strong>to</strong><br />

capture and key in ―vital information‖ that was not<br />

covered during the 2008 M&E, including<br />

qualitative data from human accounts, background<br />

and supporting information on project utilisation<br />

as well as on the fac<strong>to</strong>rs affecting project<br />

performance. The portal‘s Instantaneous<br />

Reporting System (IRS) that allows the national<br />

and state teams‘ <strong>to</strong> tag projects that require urgent

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