The lock-down policy across the country in the past few weeks as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic currently ravaging the world has prevented farmers, who are supposed to be preparing for the 2020 planting season, from accessing direly needed agro-inputs due to the disruption of inputs supply logistics within the Southwest agronomic service market. […]
Intricately linked to the health issues associated with COVID19 pandemic is a looming food crisis. There are fears that the lock-down across Nigeria and other parts of the world could disrupt the food chain, especially at the supply end, as farmers preparing for the 2020 planting season may have challenges accessing inputs due largely to […]
by Abiodun Oladipo, Head of Programmes, DAWN Commission The Federal Government recently disbursed N43.2billion to twenty-four (24) eligible States based on their achievement under the performance-based grant component of the World Bank-assisted States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability (SFTAS) programme in 2018. Out of the N43.2billion disbursed, the five (5) eligible States from the Southwest […]
by Ololade Fatunsin (Ph.D) and Oludele Folarin DAWN Commission on April 25, 2020 facilitated a virtual meeting in response to the imminent economic challenges that the country, particularly at the sub-national level, is bound to face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which has adversely impacted the global economy and specifically for Nigeria, the […]
prepared by The Economic Desk of DAWN Commission with additional contribution from Dr. Sade Taiwo This paper examines the economic implications of the lock-down on six States in the Southwest Region of Nigeria, sequel to the incidence of COVID-19 pandemic. The lock-down became imperative as a result of the spread of the disease. The disease, […]
How the Southwest States are achieving Regional Integration through the DAWN-DFID/PERL Partnership Governance, as it has been described, is central to development conversations. The World Bank (1992) defines it as the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country’s economic and social resources for development. According to the Bank, one of […]
DFID – Department for International Development PERL – Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn The Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL), a programme of the Department for International Development (DFID), supports how governments organise their core business of making, implementing, tracking and accounting for policies, plans and budgets used in delivering public goods (economic […]
In response to the interest shown by the Governments of Six Southwest States towards improving the quality of basic education in the Region, DAWN Commission, with the support of DFID, facilitated a meeting of Education Policymakers and other Stakeholders; ranging from the Education Commissioners to SUBEB Chairs, Chairs of different Houses of Assembly’s Committee on […]
There is an indisputable relationship between economic development and security, and most security challenges are essentially economic challenges. The importance of security cannot be overstressed as it is the most fundamental of the socio-contractual responsibilities of the State to its citizens which directly or indirectly affects everybody. Thus, security is the protection or defence of […]
Data is to development conversations what blood is to human beings. Data is the major enabler of a good development plan. Planning without data is like driving without a compass. It is to this end DAWN Commission has shown interest in developing data infrastructure through a concept tagged; Southwest Sustainable Open Data Management System (ODMS). […]
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