The Federal Government, on Tuesday, announced plans to develop and strengthen the monitoring and evaluation frameworks that would support the delivery, tracking and reporting of policies for promoting women economic empowerment.
The measure, according to the government, is in line with the aspiration of Nigeria’s Medium Term National Development Plan 2021-2025, which aims to have an economically vibrant country that has gender balanced growth and development.
The Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, who was represented by the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Zakari Lawal, announced this during a one-day symposium with the theme: ‘What works and success factors in managing women’s economic programmes in Nigeria.”
The event was organised by the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Development Research and Projects Centre, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Agba said, “To ensure more credibility in the generation of information, better utilisation and ownership by stakeholders, the ministry is moving forward with incorporating and deploying more innovative tools and strategies to promote transparency, citizen participation and ownership of the M&E processes.
“Among these innovative strategies is the current development by the ministry of a citizen-centric web application, the Eye-mark that will provide citizens with capability to track and report back on projects and programmes earmarked in the government’s annual budgets.”
The Director-General, NIPSS, Brig Gen Chukwumeka Udaya (retd.), said the national policy on monitoring and evaluation was one of the most important national policies to be formulated recently with implications for national development.
Source: Punch NG
