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Effective Partnership with Foundations and Non-Governmental Service Delivery Institutions with Dr Kole Shettima and Ms Ier Jonathan
This course will scrutinize the extent of and leverage of Foundations’ involvement in the delivery of national development programs, their collaboration and partnership models with government and other development providers. #SPPGFaculty#ValuesBasedLeadership#SPPGFacultyMember
The course draw lessons from impact evaluation of some Foundations’ programs in key sectors like education, health, capacity-building and agility for innovation and risk-taking.
Partnerships between Foundations, Governments and International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are helping new entrants into the world of international development to influence policies in their sectors of interest.
This can sometimes experience pushbacks as happened recently with controversies over COVID-19 vaccines. Foundations are however viewed with less suspicion than IFIs and bilateral partners.
They have more legitimacy within communities and civil society and their program delivery are broadly associated with results and reaching the targets than IFIs and bilateral partners.
Developments in Modern Political Economy with Prof Celestin Monga (@CelestinMonga) and Prof Abiola Awosika
Why are Luxembourg and Switzerland, two small, landlocked countries with virtually no natural resources other than their people and neighbours, achieving remarkable rates of growth and are among the richest economies in the world?
Why have other small, landlocked countries such as Burundi, Bolivia, or Bhutan failed to ignite similar economic processes? How do some countries manage to escape the so-called middle-income trap?
Public Policy and the Private Sector: Lessons from the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (@officialNESG) with Frank Nweke @FrankNwekeII (Faculty) and moderated by Shona Olalere (@shonalere)
Governments which have mastered collaboration with the private sector are also more effective in the delivery of sound policies, strong and dynamic institutions and the right priorities of public investments to provide critical infrastructure and skilled people for development.
The @officialNESG is the private sector-led policy think tank which has over nearly three decades aimed to influence public policy at the federal and state levels and across diverse sectors of the economy.
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Forming and Strengthening Political Parties in Nigeria to Global Best Practices with Sesugh Akume @sesugh_akume (Faculty) and moderated by Shona Olalere (@shonalere)
Political Parties are very large groups of individuals with a set of shared interests attempting to influence the political process, elections, policy outcomes, etc. A political party is a group of people who come together to contest elections and hold power in the government.
They in a quest for elective power, agree on some policies and programmes that will be presented to the society for the collective good.
Resources are finite and so, failure to make informed decisions can severely constrain the capacity of governments at all levels to successfully deliver good and targeted outcomes.
Whenever public choices and decisions are not grounded in strong analysis and shaped by factual evidence and statistical data, the result will be unfavourable to citizens.
A New Nigerian Federal Architecture: A Pathway for Equitable, Inclusive and Participatory Governance with Dr Sam Amadi (Faculty) and Century Favour (Moderator)
This course will look into the history of Nigeria's "federalism", inherent gaps in the current federal system, existing proposals for redesigns through National Conferences and regional agitations.
At #SPPG yesterday, we had a very engaging evening on electoral discourse. The office of the citizen has never been more important, and the principal-agent dilemma more apparent.
@faithlyn_7 was brilliant in her dissection of the electoral law and processes and on top of her game as one who is not merely academic about the gaps needing remediation.
Her capacity to provide solid answers to the diverse range of questions from a super-engaged class made yesterday very special for the Office of the Citizen.