Monitoring & Evaluation of MIllennium Development Goals Projects and Programmes

As a result of the debt cancelation by the Paris club of Creditors, Nigeria made a commitment to allocate funds that would have been used to service debt to the implemetation of projects and programmes that will assist in the attainment of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) in the country. A sum of N100billion was allocated by the past administration to 10 MDG related MDAs which include: Agriculture, Water Ressources, Power and Steel, Works, Youth and Intergovernmental affairs, Housing and Environment, Education, Health, Women Affairs.
This project involves the monitoring and evaluation of the use of public funds across the 6 states (including federal capital territory) within the North central zone in Nigeria. In order to demonstrate quality results, the government of Nigeria through the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the president on MDGs (OSSAP-MDGs) initiated and innovative process of bringing the organized Private Sector (OPS) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to partner as stakeholders in the fight for accountability and transparency. Based on this framework, YARAC was selected as the North central lead consultant.
The monitoring and evaluation specific goal and objective was to ensure proper coordination of Community Based Organizations(CBOs) within the North central states whose primary responsibility is to administer the field questionnaires in the project communities and send their independent reports to YARAC. in addition, YARAC makes input on submitted reports and provide timely, technical and accurate information on MDG projects and programmes funded from the debt relief gains (DRGs) to the CBOs as handed down by the National Team.
some of our achievements so far include:

• Development of an Interim Reporting Model for the state CBOs at the commencement of the M&E exercixe
• collection and distribution of MDG-DRG related documents from the National to the State CBOs
• Buiding trust, collaboration and partnership between the CBOs and the Organized private sector (OPS) at the state and Zonal level

Other activities to be conducted within the next few months include:

• Onward distribution of relevant MDG-DRG related documents from the National Team to state CBOs
• On-The-Spot Visit of MDG-DRG projects and programmes in the North central states
• Continuous collaboration partnership between the OPS and CBOs at the state and zonal level

Foward questions and enquiries to yaracjos99@yahoo.co.uk