The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has released its 2020/2021 Business Made Easy Report and the 2021 Executive Order 1 compliance report.
This was even as it identified Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority, Nigerian Export-Import Bank, Nigeria Content Development Management Board, and the National Pension Commission as the top overall five performers in compliance with Executive Order 01 (E01) for the period between January 2021 and June 2021.
For clarity, the EO1 report presents an analysis of the monthly reports submitted by Ministries Departments, Parastatals and Agencies.
The MDAs’overall EO1 performance score combines scores on the Efficiency and Transparency measures at a ratio of 70 per cent and 30 per cent respectively, efficiency score is measured by MDA compliance to service delivery timelines, as well as compliance to the Default Approval and One Government directives of the EO1.
Meanwhile, transparency is measured based on the existence of a website, an interactive online service portal, detailed content of services, timelines, costs, requirements, customer service contact details.
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“Besides the aforementioned measures, the report, for the first time, introduces an additional new set of metrics, which took effect in January 2021, in a bid to deepen the scope and depth of the compliance metrics,” says Dr. Yemi Oduwole Special Adviser to the President, Ease of Doing Business/PEBEC Secretary, in a statement obtained by the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday.
“The new metrics includes a stronger emphasis on functional social media channels for communication, as well as the incorporation of the Website Assessment Ranking of the Bureau for Public Service Reforms and the Ethics and Integrity Scale of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).”
Prior to the introduction of refreshed assessment metric, between January 2020 to December 2020, under the old assessment scale, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (5th, 64.59 per cent), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (4th, 69.96%), Nigeria Content Development Management Board (3rd, 70.58%), Oil and Gas Free Zone Authority (2nd, 71.24%) and the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (1st) emerged top five performers.
However, the report shows that all agencies fell short of the timeline for resolution as the average overall performance score for all MDAs for the period 2021 was 33.58 per cent, reflecting a drop in the overall compliance compared to their performance in 2020.
“In the same vein, MDA compliance to the 72-hr timeline mandated by the Federal Executive Council for complaint resolution on the ReportGov.NG platform leaves a lot of room for improvement,” it stated.
According to Dr Oduwole, the newly published report was in line with its commitment to measure continuously, the compliance to the Executive Order (EO1) on the Promotion of Transparency and Efficiency in the Business Environment and to periodically capture the footprints of the PEBEC reform agenda.
“The Business Made Easy Report records the reform journey from January 2020 to June 2021, a particularly challenging period for the business environment due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
“This reflected in the suboptimal performance recorded for the 5th and 6th National Action Plans at 44 per cent and 43 per cent respectively. Notwithstanding the challenges, the Nigerian business environment recorded some progress, particularly with the signing into law of the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA)2020 on August 7, 2020, which has been adjudged as Nigeria’s most significant business legislation in three decades,” she said.
However, she said the result establishes the need to intensify EO1 compliance across all MDAs towards making Nigeria a progressively easier place to do business.
“As the PEBEC moves to consolidate the business climate reforms of the past six years, a renewed emphasis will be placed on improving the technology maturity level of MDAs for improved service delivery to all Nigerians.
“Furthermore, the ReportGov.NG platform will be strengthened with the enlisting of all PEBEC priority MDAs and wider communication of the platform to drive up feedback from the private sector,” she said.
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