Federal Government Economic Reform and Governance Project

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In line with the federal government's goal to significantly strengthen govemance and accountability, reduce corruption and deliver services more effectively, the aim of the Nigeria Economic Reform and Governance Project is two-fold: (a) to improve the federal government's economic and financial management systems and processes; and (b) to firmly establish a reform process o f the federal civil service to improve professionalism and the government's ability to deliver services. The project provides four broad areas of support: (1) public resource management and targeted anti-corruption initiatives; (2) pilot civil service administrative reforms; (3) pensions reforms; and (4) statistics and statistical capacity. The information technology components for this project may be grouped into three sub-areas: 1) Infrastructure consisting o f the network, desktops computers, servers and office productivity suites, email and Web access; 2) Common Business Systems consisting of information systems that are common across the agencies including the payroll and personnel management system; and 3) Specific Business Systems consisting of applications that are specific to the work processes of the agency.