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- to build and develop partnerships with federal and state government
agencies and various institutions that might require the professional skills
of volunteers;
- to mobilize specialized skills and channel such skills towards the needs,
objectives and programmes of recipient organizations (Federal Government
of Nigeria, 2005).
Other institutional actors
The following ministries are also involved in migration management (refer
to the relevant policies for further details): the Ministry of Health (2006 National
Human Resources for Health Policy); the Ministry of Youth Development (2009
National Youth Policy); and the Ministry of Women Affairs (2006 National Gender
Policy).
e.2 analysis of migration policy coherence
Policy coordination
Policy coherence requires a mechanism whereby the roles of the key
institutional actors, such as government ministries, embassies, international
agencies and diaspora groups, are coordinated in order to improve the
effectiveness of policies related to migration.
For policy coherence to be a basic operational strategy, the allocation of
responsibilities must be well delineated to avoid duplication and redundancy
at different levels and between different sets of actors. Such coordination
calls for established principles and procedures for the effective development
of programme initiatives. Adequate funding and efficient management are
also prerequisites for achieving effective coordination. In addition, sufficient
awareness is needed among the actors as to the inter-ministerial and
interdisciplinary nature of migration issues.
By these standards of policy coherence, Nigeria’s migration-related
policies and the institutional arrangements dealing with migration could not
be described as coherent. Coordination mechanisms do not yet exist, although
the draft national policy on migration foresees a central agency responsible
for coordinating the implementation of the policy. While the draft policy still
awaits ratification, the key institutional actors dealing with migration issues tend
to work independently from each other without greater coordination of their
activities.
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