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Support to the Presidential Committee on Port Reform, Lagos Draft Final Report

This report conducted in 2013 analytically quantifies Lagos ports’ efficiency by traffic and cargo type both internally and vis-à-vis international benchmarks, with poor efficiency scores being recorded in container operations most notably at the landside interface. It examines Lagos port concessions particularly with regards to their activities, size of investments, duration, performance requirements. The analysis shows that there is a need to audit and review the existing concession arrangements and properly plan and design future ones. It provides a summary of recommendations along with an action plan for implementation and improvement. This was done as part of the FCDO (formerly DFID) PDF project Support to the Presidential Committee on Port Reform.

Strengthening the structure of Trade Associations in the Non-oil Export sector for better Governance and Leadership.

This is a presentation from the second day of the Trade Associations capacity building titled – Strengthening the structure of Trade Associations in the Non-oil Export sector for better Governance and Leadership. It covers Member Relations & Communication, Advocacy and Stakeholder Management, Fundraising & Financial Management as well as Leadership & Corporate Governance.

Youth employment summit: a snapshot of the market place participants

This information leaflet summarises job creation initiatives that were showcased during a youth employment summit organised to help to learn lessons from past job creation schemes and explore new ideas to generate employment and raise incomes.

Selected Achievements

This document presents a selection of outcomes have been curated as a snippet into the work PDF II has done over the span of 5 years

Reducing poverty sustainably, boosting economic activities: selected achievements from PDF II

This information leaflet showcases PDF II’s achievements in promoting financial efficiency, clean energy generation, and trade and investment, in order to boost economic activity and reduce poverty.

STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF NIGERIA’S RICE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS

This study discloses that import restrictions on rice have focused largely on the demand side, playing down the required governmental attention on supply. It recommends that government needs to focus more on supply enhancing policy initiatives in favour of local production.

Dialogue on inclusive growth and women’s participation

This event report summarises a dialogue to discuss women’s participation in Nigeria’s economic growth and address challenges to their empowerment.

SET: reinvigorating economic transformation in Nigeria

This paper examines how new areas of economic growth for Nigeria might be identified and charts a way forward for economic transformation efforts in the country.

Collective Action on Corruption in Nigeria; A Social Norms Approach to Connecting Society and Institutions

The findings from this report presents new evidence of the social beliefs and expectations that influence some day-today forms of corruption in Nigeria. It also diagnoses what drives corrupt behaviour in Nigeria, and the types of beliefs that support practices understood to be corrupt. Its findings are based largely on a national household survey in collaboration with Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics with support from FCDO (formerly DFID).

Tailoring Nigeria’s response to COVID-19

With the global COVID-19 pandemic came the need for local manufacturers to step up to the challenge and produce face masks, face shields, and PPEs due to dwindling supplies caused by high demand the world over. The support provided by government agencies to these entrepreneurs was critical, this in turn was derived from the technical advice supplied by the PDF Bridge programme under the Trade Policy Workstream through dialogues, studies, and roundtable events. The workstream focuses on non-oil exports by bringing underrepresented voices into economic policy and strengthening the participation of exporter groups in trade. The workstream engaged with representatives of Abia State Government during its dialogues particularly with the Director-General of the Abia State Marketing and Quality Management Agency (ASMQMA). This engagement led to increased capacity and redirection of strategy for the Aba Textile cluster in the production and distribution of finished goods. With help from the State Government’s agency on quality and standardization, Abia State Marketing and Quality Management Agency (ASMQMA), tailors generated an estimated $4-5million for the Nigerian economy from Abia State alone from the production of PPEs. This created a 110% increase in tailoring personnel.