Abstract
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is one significant break through in development policy. Nigeria’s quest for sustainable development and its subsequent endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in September, 2000 indicates a concerted and pragmatic attempt on the part of government and international agencies, to align with a major development agenda. A critical examination of the number of years of implementing the MDGs goals and targets by various implementing agencies – the Federal, States and Local Governments and the attendant low level of progress (based on the available MDGs progress evaluation report) adds weight to this study. The study, which is purely descriptive, indepthly assesses and examines the prospects, challenges and implications of attaining the MDGs in Nigeria, even with very few years to the target year. The specific objective of this paper is to justify the status of sustainable development in Nigeria vis-a-vis MDGs related programmes and projects. The paper notes some inherent dysfunctions and constraints on Nigeria’s MDGs, and proffers useful recommendations on how some of these goals could be partially achieved – in terms of good governance, public private sector partnerships, pro-poor social policies and effective development cooperation between donor and partnering organizations and different tiers of government in the country. Keywords : UN Millennium Summit; Development Cooperation; Accountability and Transparency; Progress Reports, Human Development
Highlights
The Nigerian nation in its quests for sustainable human development has experienced and embarked upon a number of development models and strategies, some of which could rightly be seen as either dependent, exogenous and endogenous strategies (Ake 1996; Essang, 1975; Ogbuagu, 1995). One of such development models or strategies which has assumed a central place in current development studies and discourse is the World Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
This paper succinctly addresses major contending issues bordering on the problems and prospects of achieving the widely acclaimed, cherished and accepted World Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria
The Millennium Development Goals have the enormous potential for the sustainable development of Nigeria, as a developing country
Summary
The Nigerian nation in its quests for sustainable human development has experienced and embarked upon a number of development models and strategies, some of which could rightly be seen as either dependent, exogenous and endogenous strategies (Ake 1996; Essang, 1975; Ogbuagu, 1995). One of such development models or strategies which has assumed a central place in current development studies and discourse is the World Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals reflect social, economic, political, cultural, ethical, moral and even religious influences in a particular environment
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