MON, 04 JULY, 2022-theGBJournal| To further ensure free flow of information among various stakeholders and to guarantee more transparency and efficiency in the implementation of the Policy Framework and National Action Plan on Prevention and Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria, the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) in Collaboration with ActionAid Nigeria and Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) has launched a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Strategy on 30th June, 2022 in Abuja.
Presenting the document, the Coordinator, Counter Terrorism Centre, ONSA, Rear Admiral YEM Musa (rtd) said that the M&E Strategy was a major landmark in ONSA’s collaborative efforts to counter violent extremism in Nigeria.
Rear Admiral YEM Musa described the event as momentous, owing to the critical and holistic drive in the national efforts undertaken by ONSA to ensure an operational policy framework and national action plan for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism.
He added that the framework was critical to building a strong, national evidence base around Policy Framework and National Action Plan for PCVE implementation in Nigeria. “The document as it stands; reflects the will of the people and the Nigerian government to utilise the whole of government and whole of society approach against the threats and risks of violent extremism bedeviling the global space,” he stressed.
Musa said the document would further guide in defining the scope of activities, establish interventions when things went wrong, and give everyone an idea of how those interventions affect the rest of the activities.
Earlier in her remarks, the Head, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in ONSA, Mrs. Mairo Musa Abbas, said the activities of the unit was tied to the Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy to enable tracking and measuring of achievements of all PCVE activities in Nigeria.
Abbas said the development of the strategy, which was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2017, was supported by the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) under its SARVE III Project. According to her, relevant stakeholders made inputs, while ActionAid engaged members of the Steering Committee for PCVE to develop the document.
The Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, Ene Obi, represented by Mr. Andrew Mamedu, said that violence had become fatally routine and a daily affair in the country within the last few years. She called for active involvement of the private sector in the prevention of violent extremism across Nigeria to join donors in funding community led programmes that offered educational, vocational, and cultural alternatives for youths.
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