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Franchise conference report
This event report summarises a one-day conference and round table that brought together different actors in the franchise industry to discuss leveraging the potential of the industry in Nigeria.
Guidelines for Embedded Advisers
These guidelines for Embedded Advisers provide practical advice on the challenges Embedded Advisers are likely to encounter in the course of their assignments within the public sector.
Identifying and spurring high-growth entrepreneurship: experimental evidence from a business plan competition
This report evaluates the impact of the YouWin! business plan competition, finding that it had large positive effects on the winning firms.
Implementing green bonds
Obinna Ugochukwu, a PDF II Climate Finance Adviser attached to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Finance, discusses his role planning and implementing Nigeria’s Green Bond Initiative.
Improving cancer treatment
PDF II efforts to improve the competency and credibility of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) generated additional funds to invest in critical development projects – including the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre.
Improving communications of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority
This story of change explains how a communications adviser helped the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority become more proactive in its communications strategy and be seen as a credible body for fiscal discipline and a trusted development partner.
Improving government accountability
Dr. Greg Ezeilo, Adviser to the Pubic Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, talks about his efforts to clear the backlog of PAC reports which had not been published for 10 years.
Improving the audit function: support to the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (OAuGF)
This story of change explains how support from Policy Development Facility Phase II has helped Nigeria’s Office of the Auditor General of the Federation improve its performance in key areas and launch a five-year strategic development plan for 2017– 2022.
Improving the coordination of trade and investment policy
Adetola Onayemi, Assistant Chief Negotiator for Nigeria and Head of Trade Remedies at the National Office for Trade Negotiation, discusses his efforts to address the lack of trade and investment policy coordination at the national level.
Inclusive growth: Impact of women’s participation on Nigeria’s macroeconomic performance
This literature review provides a global context for the links between women’s participation in economic activity and economic growth, and recommendations to overcome key challenges to the economic empowerment of women in Nigeria.
