This Day (Lagos)
Kunle Aderinokun
4 November 2008
(Page 2 of 2)
Aliyu posited that, development planning was a veritable tool for the attainment of set goals and targets by an organisation or government. He therefore said planning outfits were the gateways foe effective and efficient implementation of development projects.
He blamed the lack of planning for the slow pace in development in the country.
According to him, if proper planning had been done in the past by leaders on how to tackle the problems of poverty, backwardness in education and other vices facing the country today, the country would have been more developed by now.
Aliyu therefore enjoined leaders to imbibe the attitude of planning to avoid the trend of challenges the country is faced with.
"Because we have failed to plan in the past that is why we are facing most of the challenges we are confronted with so the best thing for those of us involved in national planning is to plan ahead to move us from where we are today", he said
Resolutions of Hope
In a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, it was recommended that states should put in motion, machinery for development of states GDP before January, 2009, and thereafter produce states GDP on a quarterly basis.
All states were also advised to participate in the sensitisation workshop and Stakeholders Consultative Forum for computation of States GDP to be organised by the NPC, in collaboration with the NBS.
Besides, the meeting urged the states to invest in human capital development in data collection, collation and processing.
Lamenting that donor agencies were in the habit of by-passing NPC which is the national focal point in aid coordination to sign memoranda of understanding (MoUs)/agreements with State Governments, the meeting recommended that henceforth, due process must be adhered to before such interventions by donor agencies/development partners.
Also, as part of the recommendations, the meeting urged States to replicate the NPC model on the format for the production of report on Donors' interventions at the state level for tracking Donor activities.
The meeting noted with concern the paradigm paralysis in the nation's move towards sustainable development as anchored by NEPAD, and recommended that all states should develop time-bound action plan to implement NEPAD strategies for sustainable development, especially in the issue of peer review mechanism.
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