Edo MDGs Holds Stakeholders’ Workshop

BENIN CITY - Edo State MDGs has held a five-day training workshop for secondary stakeholders who are involved in the implementation of MDGs in the State.

This became necessary in view of the fact that government functionaries who are involved in the daily delivery of the programmes and activities geared towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals must be repositioned through training and retraining in order to ensure prompt and effective service delivery.

The Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHSCF) and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs conceptualized the capacity building workshop and mandated the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, to conduct the training for secondary stakeholders on MDGs across the country. Edo State has now taken its turn in the training of its staff in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who are involved in the implementation of MDGs in the State, and about 25 members of staff have been trained.

It is instructive to note that the capacity building programme arose from the observed lapses in the implementation of the development strategies of the Federal and State Governments in Nigeria during 2004 - 2008.

To address the observed challenges, the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation in collaboration with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs embarked on this laudable programme to build and strengthen the capacities of civil servants with a view to improving the implementation of MDGs across the country.