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PDF Bridge Monthly Newsletter – Fourth Edition
The PDF Bridge Team provides secretariat support to Economic Policy Coordination, Office of the Vice-President. Read about the efforts being made to steer Nigeria during and post-COVID19. Sign up for our upcoming training. Details are in the newsletter.
Improving Nigeria’s Non-oil Exports: Aba Industrial City
Aba Industrial City is an aggregation of thousands of MSMEs and mass producers of industrial goods including garment and leather products. If properly harnessed, the mass production capacities of component clusters of AIC and similar models are capable of positioning Nigeria at a competitive advantage in the global garment and leather industrial space. In 2016, the Textile, Apparel, and Footwear sector contributed N2 trillion ($6.6 billion), approximately 2% of Nigeria’s total GDP, to Nigeria’s economy.
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.
Nigeria: Sovereign green bonds for climate action
This story of change describes how an Embedded Adviser provided by Policy Development Facility Phase II supported Nigeria in issuing sovereign green bonds to help finance environmental projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
PDF Bridge Monthly Newsletter – Tenth Edition
We are happy to share the March special edition of the Bridge Digest with you. This edition features the official presentation of the Study To Inform The Ratification Of The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) by the PDF Bridge Programme Manager Dr Titilola Akindeinde to the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment (FMITI), Otunba Richard Adeniyi Adebayo CON. This story and many more have been put together for your reading pleasure.
Nigeria diaspora study dissemination dialogue
This event report summarises a dialogue held to disseminate the findings of a study that examined the potential to engage with Nigeria’s diaspora to generate productive investments and resources for development.
Reviving the mines and steel industry to diversify the Nigerian economy
This story of change describes how an Embedded Adviser provided by Policy Development Facility Phase II helped Nigeria’s Ministry of Mines and Steel Development develop a roadmap to revive the country’s mining industry.
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.
Capacity Building for Trade Associations
Trade Associations play a role in promoting appropriate policies, regulations, and necessary reforms relating to their sector of operations. They create opportunities for networking and consultations among industry players as well as being a voice when it comes to new regulations and legislations while encouraging best practices among its members. According to Peter Gomersall[1], trade associations exist to support their members and further their interests, to defend them when they are under threats and to promote a common position on issues affecting the environment in which they operate.
Given the foregoing, the PDF Bridge Trade Policy Workstream organised a two-day capacity-building session targeted at strengthening the leadership of non-oil export-related trade associations and improve on their business strategy to position them to take advantage of the opportunities in the non-oil export value chain. The sessions had in attendance delegates from government agencies such as FMITI, NAQS, FMARD, NOTN, CBN as well as executives of trade group drawn from various industries including agricultural commodities farmers, agricultural commodities exchange and aggregators, industrialists, agro-processors, women, and youth development groups, textile and apparel among other participants.
[1] https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEDS/article/download/7852/8030
Capacity Building for Trade Associations (Day 2)
Trade Associations play a role in promoting appropriate policies, regulations, and necessary reforms relating to their sector of operations. They create opportunities for networking and consultations among industry players as well as being a voice when it comes to new regulations and legislations while encouraging best practices among its members. According to Peter Gomersall[1], trade associations exist to support their members and further their interests, to defend them when they are under threats and to promote a common position on issues affecting the environment in which they operate.
Given the foregoing, the PDF Bridge Trade Policy Workstream organised a two-day capacity-building session targeted at strengthening the leadership of non-oil export-related trade associations and improve on their business strategy to position them to take advantage of the opportunities in the non-oil export value chain. The sessions had in attendance delegates from government agencies such as FMITI, NAQS, FMARD, NOTN, CBN as well as executives of trade group drawn from various industries including agricultural commodities farmers, agricultural commodities exchange and aggregators, industrialists, agro-processors, women, and youth development groups, textile and apparel among other participants.
[1] https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEDS/article/download/7852/8030
