Partnership with DFID has greatly helped governance reforms – Gaidam

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has said partnership with the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) has led to the adoption of a result-based management (RBM) system which is guiding the state’s socioeconomic reform agenda meaningfully.

Gaidam who spoke yesterday at the opening of a two-day workshop organised by the Bureau for Public Procurement in collaboration with DFID to sensitise officials in the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of the state government on Yobe’s Procurement Law, said the reforms had resulted in financial discipline and optimum utilization of funds.

He listed the reforms some of of his administration as the institutionalization of comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation system (M&E) to track budget performance and the development of Medium-Term Sector Strategies (MTSS), Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and MediumTerm Fiscal Framework (MTFF) for financing various sector plans, adoption of budget classification and chart of accounts.

The governor said, “As part of the effort to internalise the lessons learnt through collaboration with DFID, our administration has made it mandatory for ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to conduct their activities in a transparent manner. This has checked the diversion of funds, misappropriation, revenue leakages, and misuse of public funds.”