ANEEJ ENGAGES BPP ON UNDP CASAN PROJECT

Anti-corruption

December 1, 2016

ANEEJ ENGAGES BPP ON UNDP CASAN PROJECT

The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, had a meeting with the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, on Wednesday November 30, 2016, at the Bureau’s office in Abuja, FCT. The meeting was held in pursuance to the “Civil Society Advocacy to Support Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (CASAN) project with support from UNDP under the EU founded 10^th European Development Fund (EDF).

img-20161201-wa0012 — *Sitting from left: ANEEJ team interfacing with officials of the Bureau for Public Procurement seated on the right*

The meeting was held to brief the BPP on ANEEJ’s new project, the role the Bureau is expected to play and to generally seek the collaboration of the Bureau to implement the project. Mr. Innocent Edemhanria, Manager programmes, briefed the BPP on the project details including goal, objectives and proposed activities. He then mentioned to the stakeholders the areas the project seeks to engage to include the following:

the Bureau of Public Procurement
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Communications
the EFCC
National Assembly
CSOs
Journalists

Mr. Edemhanria also hinted the Bureau on activities of the project that are pertinent to the BPP involvement and which include:

ANEEJ to hold initial meeting with the BPP for briefing and to seek their support for effective implementation of the project
the BPP to attend the inception meeting to give goodwill message and discuss their involvement with the implementation of Open Government Partnership with particular reference to the open contracting platform.
BPP to be ready to respond to ANEEJ call to resource person(s) for training of CSOs and journalists in Abuja and Lagos.

Outcome

After the briefing, Mr. Aliyu E. Aliyu, the Director of Database and Regulations Department at the Bureau of Public Procurement, thanked ANEEJ. He gave a summary on their involvement in the implementation of the OGP and progress made with the set up of open contracting Portal and other platforms, noting that the portal is currently being designed.

BPP committed to working with ANEEJ on the project as the activities proposed for ANEEJ projects complements the work of BPP. Reference was made to the MOU ANEEJ and a few other CSOs have with the BPP.

BPP introduced Mr. Mokuolu Adesina and Mr. Ikenna Ilogboko as the focal persons taking a lead in BPP working on the OGP/Open contracting issue.
ANEEJ would shortly write again to the DG of the bureau and present the agreement reached at the engagement meeting and as well make reference to ANEEJ’s previous relationship and engagement with the bureau.

BPP TEAM

Aliyu E. Aliyu, Director of Database and Regulations Department

Mokuolu Adesina, Senior Procurement Officer

Ilogboko Ikenna, Procurement Officer II