EU commits N1.72bn to Nigeria’s social, financial data projects

European Union, EU, has confirmed that it had expended over eight million Euros (about N1.72bn) to support Nigeria’s efforts to generate, process and disseminate quality social and financial data nationwide.

Representative of EU delegation in Nigeria, Mr. Omotunde Oni, disclosed this at a 2-day Stakeholders’ workshop for the Validation of the Compendium of Statistical Terms and Framework for Capturing Administrative Statistics in Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, in Abuja.

On the projects to which the funds were committed, he said EU, under the 10th European Development Fund, EDF, provided support to the Federal Government Public Service Reform, SUFEGOR, programme as well as the Statistics in Nigeria project, a component of the Multi-donor Economy Management Capacity Project, EMCAP, implemented between 2003 and 2006.

Oni explained: “The EU’s contribution to EMCAP was eight million Euros. The expected result of EMCAP included the generation and dissemination of social and financial data for the country as well as the facilitation of period publication and accessibility of data.

According to him, capacity building of staff was done through EMCAP in form of training, re-training and study to benefit from best practices from other countries just as support of the EU was also provided for the SUFEGOR programme on the implementation of the National Strategy for the Public Service Reforms, NSPSR.