A proposal for the creation of new agencies to monitor and evaluate Federal Government projects by the National Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies has been rejected by the Federal Government.
This came as the Federal Government frowned at the duplication of roles, saying too many agencies were pursuing the same tasks.
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, argued this at the opening session of the Dialogue on the National Monitoring and Evaluation Policy and Women’s Economic Empowerment at the State House, Abuja.
She was responding to earlier remarks by Prof. Dung Pam Sha, who represented the Director-General of the NIPSS, Kuru, Plateau State, Prof Don Pasha.
Ahmed, who was represented by the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, said, “A little while ago, when the representative of the DG NIPSS, Professor Don Pasha, was speaking, he made a recommendation for the setup of an agency to handle monitoring and evaluation.
“I do not support that. I do not think that we need more agencies. What we need now is to begin to reduce all our agencies.
“We have too many and they are playing competing roles. But what I do agree with him is what he talked about the use of technology. And as part of the current M&E framework, we have developed that.”
