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CHAPTER 2: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS, 2006 – 2008<br />

The debt-relief secured in 2005 provided an<br />

opportunity <strong>to</strong> commit additional resources <strong>to</strong> the<br />

MDGs. Since then, <strong>Nigeria</strong> has closely integrated<br />

the MDGs in<strong>to</strong> its national development agenda.<br />

The DRG Funds are appropriated in the annual<br />

budgeting process and their use is intended <strong>to</strong><br />

scale-up existing high-impact MDG-related<br />

interventions through the operation <strong>of</strong> a virtual<br />

poverty fund that earmarks and uses domestic<br />

resources derivable from debt relief for the design<br />

and implementation <strong>of</strong> poverty eradication<br />

programme at all levels <strong>of</strong> government.<br />

This chapter seeks <strong>to</strong> review the trend in the<br />

allocation <strong>of</strong> DRG financial resources <strong>to</strong> the<br />

different Implementing Agents <strong>of</strong> DRG projects<br />

from the programme‘s inception in 2006 till date<br />

and provide a summary <strong>of</strong> achievements <strong>of</strong> the<br />

investment funds there<strong>of</strong>.<br />

Review <strong>of</strong> Financial Allocations: 2006 - 2008<br />

Since 2006 the OSSAP-MDGs has been working<br />

in collaboration with its national and international<br />

partners <strong>to</strong> implement government reforms aimed<br />

at increased responsiveness and service delivery.<br />

This work has focused on MDAs, and state and<br />

local governments <strong>to</strong> leverage DRG funding <strong>to</strong><br />

strengthen their constitutional responsibilities for<br />

poverty reduction. From the inception <strong>of</strong> the<br />

programme in 2006 <strong>to</strong> date approximately N570bn<br />

has been appropriated for pro-poor, MDG related<br />

programmes through the Federal MDAs, the<br />

Conditional Grants Scheme and the Quick-Wins<br />

programme.<br />

Allocations <strong>to</strong> MDAs<br />

The respective MDAs are assigned the<br />

responsibility <strong>to</strong> plan, design and execute the<br />

DRG-funded projects and programmes within the<br />

framework <strong>of</strong> established due process, while the<br />

OSSAP-MDGs exercises overview function on the<br />

delivery <strong>of</strong> these projects along the principles <strong>of</strong><br />

the OPEN initiative.<br />

Table 1 below provides an indication <strong>of</strong> the<br />

allocations <strong>of</strong> DRG funds <strong>to</strong> the different<br />

Implementing Agents between 2006 and 2009. As<br />

can be seen, ministries executing projects in the<br />

Works and Power sec<strong>to</strong>rs were cut <strong>of</strong>f following<br />

very poor performances in 2006 and 2007<br />

respectively. While these MDAs were cut <strong>of</strong>f,<br />

their absence was somewhat balanced by the<br />

introduction <strong>of</strong> special programmes in the form <strong>of</strong><br />

the Conditional Grant Scheme (CGS) and Quick-<br />

Wins projects <strong>to</strong> address some obvious gaps in the<br />

MDG implementation framework.<br />

Table 2 aggregates the DRG investment<br />

allocations for the period <strong>to</strong> the three major<br />

categories <strong>of</strong> Implementing Agents, i.e., MDAs,<br />

CGS, and Quick-Wins.<br />

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