Devise Alternative Strategies for Social Sector Funding, FG Urged

The Federal Government has been urged to seek and adopt new measures and strategies to ensure continuous funding for the country’s vital social sector; to provide a viable alternative to the dwindling funding from donor countries and international organisations.

Also, members of the National Assembly and civil society organisations have been urged to partner the government in proffering holistic solutions to the current trend and challenges facing adequate and sustainable social sector financing, coupled with the need to harness and strengthen domestic resources for social sector financing in the face of dwindling donors’ funding.

The calls were contained in a release issued by the Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Mr. Auwal Musa Ibrahim aka Rafsanjani.

Rafsanjani made the calls ahead of a one-day workshop for National Assembly Members on ‘Understanding Nigeria’s Lower-Middle Income Status and Unlocking Potential for Local Resource Mobilisation for Social Sector Financing’, jointly organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation in conjunction with CISLAC, which is holding on Monday, July 17 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja

According to him, “The current but unpleasant trend arising from dwindling donors’ resources leaves Nigeria, which is one of the major beneficiaries, with a challenge and no option than to proactively brainstorm, provoke critical discussions and harness potential for domestic resource mobilisation for sustainable social sector financing to inform appropriate legislative decisions and policy directions in Nigeria.