The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Secretariat has canvassed for an effective participatory budgeting process that brings in the voices of the unheard and underserved and considers equality of voices in decision making processes for inclusive governance. The National Coordinator Open Government Partnership (OGP) Secretariat, Dr. (Mrs) Gloria .K. Ahmed […]
Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has inaugurated a 17-member National Steering Committee for the States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability, and Sustainability (SFTAS) Programme-For-Results. The minister inaugurated the committee on Tuesday in Abuja, charging members to consider the assignment as a call to national duty and ensure results were achieved within specified[…..]
States will be responsible for achieving the program results and thus will be leading the implementation of the PforR component. To support the implementation of the Program in each state, a state steering committee will be established in each of the participating states. The membership of the committee shall include representation from the key MDAs[…..]
The proposed Program is a hybrid with two components of activities that support Nigerian states to achieve the key result areas of the Program: (1) a performance-based financing component for state governments, which will be implemented as a PforR; and (2) a technical assistance (TA) component for states and selected national-level institutions, which will be[…..]