Kunle Aderinokun
4 September 2008
Accra, Ghana — The Federal Government has received a total of N722.88 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from development partners in eight years, spanning 1999 to 2007.
The amount represented $3.244 billion grants from 12 main donor countries/agencies, seven of which are in the United Nations System and Credits of $2.826 billion from multilateral institutions, as well as $12.905 million Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
These were contained in a Special Report titled "A Review of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Nigeria, 1999 to 2007," launched at the on-going High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Accra , Ghana , organised by the Word Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The report, produced by the National planning Commission (NPC), revealed that of a total commitment of $6.277 billion, which was made by donors and agencies in about a decade ago, only 50 per cent was disbursed, out of which institutions in the UN system contribute the lion share.
According to the report, together, institutions within the UN system have the biggest contribution. Their collective budgeted and disbursed figures form 89 per cent and 52 per cent respectively of the total grants received in the last decade.
The report lamented that the aids and grants were disbursed by donors and agencies directly through project interventions, thereby making it difficult to track figures declared by various donors and the reality on the ground by the authorities.
The report, however, indicate that "as donors are primarily responsible for management and disbursement of funds, they must be held accountable for any inefficiency, waste and ineffectiveness."
Also in the report, it was stated that, "there is evidence that interventions in social sectors such as education, health and water and sanitation have no in-built intention
for sustainability. Therefore, a community that receives a motorised borehole may not be able to sustain that facility, once it falls into a state of disrepair and Nigeria is littered with such unsustainable projects."
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