Expert Wants States To Share Best Practices

The National Programme Manager, State Programme for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability (SPARC), Dr Joe Aba, has said that sharing of best practices amongst states in the same region will fast track the country’s development.

He stated this in Lagos at the second Governance Share Fair organised by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) for states in the South West of the country.

The two-day event was organised by the forum with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under the SPARC Programme.

“Each state has a commendable practice, if you can get the people to come together and share experiences about their challenges, successes and lessons they had learnt, development would be made faster.

“This is why we are doing these at regional level because each region has its own peculiarity and they are mutually dependent on each other.” Aba said.

The programme manager said that this was why what affected one state, would affect the others in the region.

He added that Lagos State’s improved internally generated revenue and the Ondo State “Abiye” programme which had reduced maternal mortality rate were all commendable initiatives.