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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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