The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, DAWN Commission, has announced the Southwest Governance Innovation Summit 2017 with the support of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) Programme – Partnership to Engage, Reform and Learn (PERL).
Addressing media practitioners at a press conference to officially announce the summit, Dipo Famakinwa, Director-General of the commission said the summit is a three-day conference, that would hold from the 20th-23rd February 2017
The Southwest Governance Innovation Conference 2017 which is scheduled to hold in Abeokuta, Ogun State, will afford the Southwest States the opportunity to showcase their most successful reforms, encourage State-to-State networking, peer learning, stimulate collaborations, and encourage the adoption and replication of innovative practices by all the States.
“The primary rationale underscoring this Conference therefore is for our States to present game-changing State-level innovations and reforms that have been tested, and that have proven critical to the improvement of the effectiveness of the governance sector in their respective States. We are also concerned about the deepening of systems and people capability in the delivery of public goods and services in different areas of Governance,” Famakinwa said.
“The Conference is expected to bring together State actors, civil society groups, private sector players, the legislature, international development organisations and interested members of the public from across the Southwest States to interact and share innovative governance practices and experiences, especially those that are worthy of being replicated across all the States in the Region.
“And of course, central to the Conference is the desire by our various State Governments to approach innovation in governance in its most profound sense, with a stronger focus for devising new methodologies, creating new instruments, improving the capability of the public sector to support the aspirations of all the citizens, to improve the investment environment, build new skills and capability that would lead to achieving high levels of social and economic performances that meet the yearnings of all who interact with the public sector.
