CSCSD Meeting with DAWN Commission

DAWN Commission, Friday September 21 2018, held a strategic meeting with the Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development.

The meeting focused majorly on how the two organisations could build a mutually rewarding relationship as well as foster partnership along the Commission’s activities on the Ease-of-Doing Business in the Western Region of Nigeria.

The discussion centered around DAWN’s intervention area with DFID-PERL/ARC on “Improving the Business Environment” for better service delivery, with the recently inaugurated Regional Ease-of-Doing Business committee, comprising of states and non-states actors, set up to specifically to address the bottlenecks business owners experience in the Region.

Highlights:

(1) Membership on the Southwest Regional Ease-of-Doing Business Committee (SWREC)

(2) Partnership in organising Southwest SDG Summit

(3) Partnership in other development areas, among other things

The meeting had in attendance the National, Regional and States coordinators/representatives of CSCSD including Dr Tola Winjobi. It was facilitated by Economic Competitiveness/Investment Pillar (EoDB team) of DAWN Commission.

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