REFORMS to Address the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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   Problem: Nigeria ranked low in most measure of human development and was spending a large chunk of its resources on servicing external debt rather than investing in human development.
   
   Reform Actions:
   - Securing debt relief from the Paris Club of Creditors and establishing the Office of the Senior Special Adviser to the President on MDGs
   - Conditional Grants Scheme for states
   - Conditional Grants Scheme for Local Government
   - Conditional Cash Transfer
   - Village Health Worker Scheme
   - Midwives Service Scheme
   - Roll-back Malaria Scheme
   - Nigeria MDGs Information System
   - MDGs Acceleration Framework for Goal 5
   - Development of Post 2015 Development Framework

• Main Achievements: 
  (a) Nigeria has attained self sufficiency in food supply and met Goal 1 of the MDGs; 
  (b) numerous projects in water and sanitation, health, education, Power and economic and social development; 
  (c) reduction in prevalence of HIV/ AIDS from 5.4% in 1999 to 3.4% in 2013; and 
  (d) fall in maternal mortality from 800 deaths per 100,000 births in 2003 to 350 deaths per 100,000 births is 2012.
  
  Key Challenges: 
  (a) slow implementation of projects at the sub-national level; 
  (b) low capacity for funds utilisation at the sub-national level; 
  (c) security challenges, particularly in the northern part of the country; and 
  (d) unscientific cultural beliefs hampering efforts at health improvement.
  
  Reference:  Public Service Reforms in Nigeria (1999-2014) - A Comprehensive Review
  
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