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Nigerian House Committee on Millenium Development Goals

Client Request

Conduct a two week study tour during which 11 member s of the Nigerian House Committee on Millennium Development Goals would come to Atlanta, GA USA and would train with EuQuant employees and various other specialists in order to determine best practices in areas such as monitoring and evaluation, health, sustainability, education, gender equality, nutrition, and many others. The curriculum of this study tour would identify challenges that Nigeria, and the committee, face trying to create sustainable economic growth within the country, discuss best practices for moving Nigeria towards it 2015 Millennium Development Goals, and create possible legislation that the committee could enact to aid Nigeria in this process.

Euquant Solution

As leaders of the EuQuant team and highly respected authorities in the area of economics and transportation, Dr. Thomas Boston and Dr. Catherine Ross first created a two week curriculum that addressed every area of interest to the committee. Next, they assembled an elite group of specialists in the areas of health, sustainability, nutrition and wellness, gender equality and education, good governance, procurement, and many other areas to meet with the 11 Nigerian House Committee members and discuss best practices with regard to their area of expertise along with propose legislative solutions to some of the challenges the country faces.

Euquant Insight

One of the specialties of EuQuant’s services is the ability to uniquely tailor its solutions to meet the needs of its clients. This is of even greater importance when working with international clients of developing countries that operate in distinct and unique environments. Some of the insight that was provided to the committee included, a list of case studies in the area of education, such as PROGRESSA, that can be siphoned for ideas to achieve universal education in a developing country, a list of ideas for legislative acts in the area of health, such as a national flu season, that the committee can institute, a list of best practices regarding procurement that will assist the committee in tracking and monitoring all of its current government projects, a list of sustainably best practices, such as creating environmental stewardship agencies, that can ensure that environmental regulations are being followed, and a list of metrics that the committee can use to measure the progress of the country toward reaching its millennium development goals by the year 2015.

EuQuant Deliverables

Over the two week study tour, EuQuant staff documented and recorded all of the proceedings that took place. Additionally, the participants were provided with a full copy of all of the presentations that were made which will be followed by a full report that encompasses a thorough review of the challenges, solutions and notes that were made throughout the course. Moreover, EuQuant will follow up with the committee over the next few years to ensure that any assistance that the committee may need regarding implementing some of the recommendations that were made during the tour will be provided. The study tour represented the first installment of what will be a long relationship between the Nigerian House Committee on Millennium Development Goals and the EuQuant Staff. Furthermore, EuQuant anticipates the arrival of additional committee members in the future that will undergo the same two week study tour.