1. A SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK/ROADMAP FOR NIGER DELTA STATES AND THE REGION
NDDF 2017

2. Under this roadmap/strategy, government and key partners including private sector will seek short to long-term ways of addressing the underlying social crisis in the Niger Delta bearing in mind the need to mainstream youths and gender. The framework/roadmap anticipates that we need to envisage what social change will look like in the future as well as ensure that implementation is premised on sustainability.
A social framework should not be seen as an isolated intervention, challenge for the region and there is need to integrate these social development considerations into the economic and political strategy with a view to address endemic levels of social crisis, poverty and inequality as underpinning reasons for the restiveness in the Region.
. It’s a framework to assist governments in the Niger Delta Region to deliver inclusive governance and ensure sustainable development for its people. The framework covers the period , , which is consistent with the UN-SDGs and Agenda 2030.
Introduction

3. The Nigeria Inequality report published by Oxfam, states with poverty incidence being highest in the North west (71.4%), followed by North East at 69.1 % and North Central at 60.7 %. The South West has the lowest poverty rate at of % followed by the South- South (55.5%) and South East (59.5%). There is also gender inequality mediated through a myriad of discriminatory traditional and socio-cultural practices that put women at disadvantage in many areas compared to men. 
The report points out that the annual economic growth averaged over 7 % in the 2000s. But the paradox is that as the country gets richer, only a few benefit and majority continues to suffer from poverty and deprivation.
This is what inclusive social development framework is all about and this is what makes it transformative premised on a TOC that says transformation will come when the multiple levels of inequality are reduced.
Justification

4. Examination of Existing Policy Dimensions -Starting with an interrogation of current policies and programme interventions.
Diagnostic Assessment of the current social status of the Region. This is to serve as the baseline for designing the building blocks on which interventions in each state will unleash a new future for the region.
Development of new Vision or the specification of new strategic directions for the Region that is transformative based on the two previous processes.
Defining Specific Thematic Programs and Initiatives follow the specification of direction
Provide timelines for the framework and indicators for measuring progress- along with the linkage of this framework to the SDGs
Addressing the institutional mechanism for delivery on this framework
Exploring funding sources –creative financing in mind.
Framework and road map

5. Strategic Vision -Inclusive and Sustainable Transformation of the Niger Delta
Overarching Goal – Reduction of social exclusion and tackling dimensions of poverty through remunerative, sustainable and resilient programmes
Strategic Objectives
SO1 -Reduce factors that increase the vulnerability of poor and excluded peoples of the region
SO2 -Increase young persons and women’s productive capacities
SO3 – Increase the benefits that socially excluded persons, poor and marginalized get from the economy and state.
SO4- Strengthen the policy and governance structure to address socially appropriate investments and reduce income inequality.
SO5- Address well-being issues and enable productive choices for the region and its environment
Thematic components

6. Strategic Framework Outcomes
Enabling socially relevant policies, programmes and budgetary commitments by all states within the region in collaboration with partners and private sector.
Increase levels of investment in socially generated, focused and related programmes
Improved regional capacity for social development programmes, implementation and evaluation
Transform current perspectives of disability, gender and youth and ensure their full and equitable participation in all spheres of life including their capacity to make choices.
Strategic Framework
Pillars of Delivery of Results
-State Programme Delivery frameworks which consist of instruments of planning, managing and monitoring an array of themes and objectives are fully developed across the Region.
-Programmes support that enable simplification and realistic application of framework in the field. This is important as many have complained about the rigorous requirements of the SDGs framework,
-Targeted and tailored state by state approaches that recognize state and local specific challenges and opportunities.
-Decentralization of programmes such that they are proximate to those targeted
-Knowledge management and dissemination-sharing what is working and reviewing where there are problems.
-Carry out periodic impact measurement to build evidence based knowledge for improvement.
-Engagement and partnership for internal oversight, institutional efficiency and functions,
-Ensuring financial and human resource capabilities and opportunities to back the framework

7. M&E Monitoring and Evaluation Activities and Projects
By 2020, ensure that each state is able to utilize the knowledge built, policy engagement, dissemination of activities and enhanced capacity-building support to the region, including to state and local government levels to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in Niger delta context.
Activities and Projects
State by State Social Development Frameworks drawn along the key thematic components of this overall framework. This shall constitute an appendix to this Regional Framework and used in periodic assessment of progress.
Progress in realizing this Framework will be measured through an SDG generated results measurement frameworks (RMFs) agreed with member states of the region.
M&E

8. Component themes Health Education WASH Social Services Sports Youth
Street kids
Girls and Women
Disabilities
IDPs
 Environment
The achievement of results faces risks depending on the local, country, regional or global context, and these risks may be of a policy, political, institutional, technical, environmental, security, financial or economic nature.
Component themes

9. What the framework will be is a set of state by state frameworks, drawn on any of the components of social development listed below or as specified by the state.
The state framework which will address context and peculiarities will be used to justify activities under the regional and such action will be integrative, sustainable and evaluative in nature including things like building the capacity of different state to participate.
The regional framework will become the document on which to negotiate and engage with all interventionist bodies.
Periodic state assessments, peer review including capacity building and statistics for planning and review could be done through the BRACED commission or any other non state body.
Bottom –Up to regional

10. Transformation is premised on a Theory of Change (ToC)that must tackle the key findings in the Nigeria Inequality Report published in 2016 by Oxfam. It notes in relation to the current state of poverty and economic inequality in Nigeria that …poverty in Nigeria is very high and that the country is among the 30 most unequal countries in the world. As at 2010, more than 112 million people were living in poverty. According to the Human Development Report, Nigeria had the highest number of people living in multi-dimensional poverty (88.4 million) in the world, followed by Pakistan (83 million) and Ethiopia (78.9 million).
Reduction of social exclusion and tackling dimensions of poverty through remunerative, sustainable and resilient programmes
What change looks like