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The National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) consist of the following (Commissioners or Executive Board Members):

  •  The Chairman of the Commission

  • The Duty Chairman of the Commission Contract Operations Project Management Director

  •  Contract Operations Project Management Director 

  • The Statistics & Protocols 

  • Audit Report Implementation Committee

  • Administration and Human Resources.

  • Physical Development Committee

  • Communication Committee

  • The Financial Committee 

The introduction of National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) followed Rural and Urban Areas  Procurement Assessment survey conducted in 1997 which established the link between poor/weak public procurement procedures and corruption as well as it’s far reaching negative consequences on rural and national development especially in the area of infrastructural development. 

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The Assessment report revealed that 600,000 was being lost to underhand practices out of every N1.00 spent by Government and that an average of Ten Billion US Dollars ($10billion) was being lost annually due to fraudulent practices in the award and execution of public contracts through inflation of contract cost, lack of procurement plans, poor project prioritization, poor budgeting processes, lack of competition and value for money and other kinds of manipulations of the procurement and contract award processes

 

In order to address the above shortcomings, the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) initiated the Public Procurement Reform as part of its Economic Reform agenda designed to restore due process in the award and execution of general contract tenders. This led to the setting up of the Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligent Unit (BMPIU known as Due Process) in 2001 to implement the National And Rural Development Commission Procurement Reform Policy aimed at minimizing open abuses to known rules, processes and standards in the award and execution of public sector contracts in Urban and Rural Areas.

 

Following the growing Public demand that the reforms are sustained and institutionalized with legal backing, a Public Procurement Bill was articulated in 2003/2004 by the Leadership of BMPIU and presented to the National Assembly. The Public Procurement Bill was thereafter passed by the National Assembly on the 30th of May, 2007 and subsequently signed into Law by the  National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) Board Committee Members on the 4th of June, 2007.


The Commission operates through a number of committees whose composition changes with the focus of a medium-term development plan (in the case of the Thematic Committees) or the needs of the Commission as determined by its current members (the Standing Committees). 

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In accordance with the provision under Article 87 of the Constitution, the core mandate of the Commission is to “advise the President on development planning policy and strategy” and, “at the request of the President or Parliament, or on its own initiative,” do the following:  

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  • Study and make strategic analyses of macro-economic and structural reform options;

  • Make proposals for the development of multi-year rolling plans taking into consideration the resource potential and comparative advantage of the different districts of rural and urban contract project and development.

  • Make proposals for the protection of the natural and physical environment;

  • Make proposals for ensuring the even development of the districts of rural and urban areas by the effective utilization of available resources.

  • Monitor, evaluate and coordinate development policies, programmes and contract projects.

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The Commission, according to the Constitution, “shall also perform such other functions relating to development planning as the President may direct”.

 

.Act 479 operationalises these broad functions by prescribing, among other things, the qualifications and tenure of Commissioners; the composition and responsibilities of staff of the Commission; the divisions of the Commission; as well as “financial and miscellaneous provisions” dealing with matters such as funds of the Commission, auditing requirements and annual reports.

 

The commission is “responsible for the efficient organization and management of contract projects in all the urban and rural areas.” It states further that all government departments, agencies, and “other public authorities… shall cooperate fully with the Commission in the exercise of its functions under the Act”.  

 

The Commission works very closely with the Multilateral Development Banks, Ministry of Finance, Public Procurement, Economic Planning, Federal and State Government.

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