The Lagos State Public Procurement Agency has begun developing a 10-year strategic plan to institutionalise procurement reforms and prevent gains in transparency, accountability and efficiency from being lost to changes in government.\n<\/p>\n
The plan, tagged Vision 2036, is being developed in partnership with the European Union-funded Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC) Programme, managed by International IDEA, to strengthen the agency\u2019s institutional capacity and establish a sustainable framework for public procurement in the state.\n<\/p>\n
The roadmap is expected to guide the agency\u2019s operations beyond successive administrations, with provisions for digital transformation, professional development, policy implementation and periodic performance assessments.\n<\/p>\n
The LSPPA disclosed this in a statement on its strategic engagement with the RoLAC Programme to review and validate the roadmap, obtained by The PUNCH<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The RoLAC State Coordinator, Ajibola Ijimakinwa, represented by Samson Onwusonye, said the initiative was designed to establish a governance framework that would entrench transparency, accountability and efficiency in public procurement.<\/p>\n He said the partnership was building on previous interventions by RoLAC and the LSPPA, which had produced key policy and operational documents, including the Guidelines for Disposal of Assets, the Procurement Policy Document and the Sustainable Public Procurement Policy.\n<\/p>\n He said, \u201cVision 2036 is expected to serve as a flagship legacy project for the agency, providing a long-term framework for institutional development, consolidating procurement reforms and strengthening governance systems beyond successive administrations.\u201d<\/p>\n Onwusonye added that the roadmap could provide a template for other states seeking to establish transparent, accountable and efficient public procurement systems.\n<\/p>\n Declaring the engagement open, the Director-General of the LSPPA, Fatai Onafowote, described the roadmap as an institutional development process requiring sustained commitment, periodic reviews and continuous improvement. <\/p>\n He said the agency had recently completed new document-handling processes to improve professional standards in public service delivery, adding that the strategic plan would further optimise government procurement and strengthen institutional capacity.\n<\/p>\n Onafowote stressed that the participation of stakeholders was crucial to producing a comprehensive and nationally benchmarked document.\n<\/p>\n He said the validation exercise would ensure that the roadmap reflected the agency\u2019s operational realities and provided practical direction for achieving sustainable good governance in the state.\n<\/p>\n The facilitator from A&E Law Partnership, Chibuzo Ekwekwo, said the validation process would go beyond the initial statistical and foundational analyses to examine the document chapter by chapter.\n<\/p>\n He explained that the participatory approach was intended to give officers collective ownership of the roadmap and enable them to understand and justify the inclusion or omission of specific provisions.<\/p>\n Ekwekwo said operational challenges identified during the exercise would be treated as opportunities for improvement, with practical, step-by-step interventions incorporated into the strategic plan.\n<\/p>\n He also disclosed that the roadmap\u2019s key performance indicators would be formally reviewed every two to three years to ensure that its targets remained relevant and responsive to emerging institutional needs.\n<\/p>\n Other priorities identified for the agency\u2019s development include stakeholder engagement, capacity building, digital transformation, policy implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and the sustainability of procurement reforms.\n <\/p>\n Source: <\/p>\n The Lagos State Public Procurement Agency has begun developing a 10-year strategic plan to institutionalise procurement reforms and prevent gains in transparency, accountability and efficiency from being lost to changes… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}