Policy Development Facility

2010 to 2015

GBP 9 million

DFID

220 months of procurement, contracting, quality assurance, advice, monitoring and evaluation and dissemination

If Nigeria is to contribute to the attainment of the MDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa, it will need rapid, poverty-reducing growth that is sustained into the medium- to long-term. However, the policy and public investment framework is not yet broadly consistent with building an enabling environment for a competitive and dynamic non-oil economy to develop, particularly one that is based on pro-poor growth.

Through the Policy Development Facility, DFID will continue to support opportunities that further the development of issues-based pro-poor policy analysis and dialogue on various levels and among various partners. The majority of PDF activities will be short-medium term initiatives such as seminars, technical assistance and policy research.  Also, there will be longer term interventions, up to 12 months, for consultants working in line management positions in Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies. It will include funding ODI Fellows placed in Nigerian institutions for 24 months. Other than the ODI Fellows, these initiatives will be proposed by external stakeholders (such as government ministries, NGOs, CBOs, the private sector or other donors).

Technical policy areas supported by PDF are likely to include:

• Economics (macro, fiscal, trade, industry)
• Trade policy and relations
• Private sector development
• Public expenditure management
• Tax policy and regulation
• Fiscal decentralisation
• Social development
• Poverty analysis and social impact assessment

Following HTSPE’s successful management of the DFID-funded Policy and Knowledge Facility (PAK) in Nigeria over the last five years, HTSPE was awarded the contract for the follow-on programme, the Policy Development Facility (PDF).

HTSPE’s role is to manage the procurement, contracting, quality assurance, advisory inputs, reporting, monitoring & evaluation and dissemination of findings of all the programme activities.

In addition, HTSPE are responsible for ensuring that the mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating the project at output, purpose and goal levels are in place and are adequate for measuring the indicators included in the logical framework.

The estimated total value of funds to be managed is £7.1 million over five years, which HTSPE is pre-financing. The PDF office is based in Abuja, Nigeria.