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    Innovations in public finance management in Kano and Jigawa

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2009
    Kano was the first state in northern Nigeria to computerise public financial management systems to make them more accurate and transparent. Neighbouring states are following suit, showing that states can learn from each other. All that is needed is political will and senior staff willing to champion the process.
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    Water management innovations in Kano State

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2009
    The rehabilitation of the Wudil Regional Water Scheme – a scheme that serves about 198,000 people – is one of 15 regional schemes in Kano State. The state government is keen to scale-up the Wudil model to provide clean water to over one million people.
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    State governments are improving the management of public resources

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    The United Kingdom and Nigerian Governments have partnered to improve governance in Nigeria. SPARC is being funded as part of several programmes with the same aim – to help state governments improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which they use public resources.
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    Improving lives through the Millennium Development Goals Conditional Grant Scheme

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    Nigeria's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Conditional Grants Scheme (CGS) addresses the MDGs at the local level by providing financial and technical support to scale-up state and local government activities related to the MDGs.
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    Mapping mandates in Lagos State - Leaflet

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    Lagos State Government seeks to enhance its capability to deliver improved services to the people of the state in a cost-effective and efficient manner. A major first step to improving performance and accountability is to create a clearer picture of mandates and responsibilities of each ministry, department or agency (MDA).
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    Medium term budgeting and planning: more realism drives improved performance

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    In many states, a deeply ingrained practice of over-stated budgets and disconnected development strategies has obstructed rational planning and has frustrated development over the years.
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    Mandate mapping shows the way to better governance

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    The improvement of governance is one of SPARC's primary aims in its support for Nigeria to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A fundamental of good governance is that the responsibilities and structures of key ministries, departments and agencies should be clearly described.
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    Realistic budgets advance Kaduna State towards MDG targets

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    To deliver on plans, governments need to balance budgets and income. However, for many years, this has not happened in Kaduna. Overinflated budgets have been the norm, resulting in government approving large budgets, but only releasing a fraction of the funds allocated. Kaduna State has now made considerable progress towards drawing up realistic budgets.
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    Building for the future: accessing local training capability

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2011
    To gain an understanding of the existing training and development capacity of indigenous Nigerian organisations, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) state-level programmes (SLPs) in Nigeria, including SPARC, jointly undertook a training capability assessment in 2010.
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    A fast track approach to governance reforms

    State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability, 2012
    Following the declaration of a new governor in Ekiti State in October 2010, the state government developed an Eight-Point Agenda (8PA) to improve the quality of life of its citizens, and tackle head on the issue of poverty.

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