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Visualizing
critical data that informs Arewa leaders and organizations of the region's
unique characteristics.
Produce a Comprehensive Arewa Region Economic Profile and Other
Informational Resources
To maximize the value of the RDM to a wider array of people and
organizations, ACRD will develop a series of user-friendly
Economic Profiles that offer Arewa region attractive document
that can guide the region's economic development plans and
activities. In this regard, our Center will partner both States
and Local Government to develop Information Briefs that are
intended
to
provide local economic development outlook, timely information
on a variety of local
and State demographic, socioeconomic, education, economic and
workforce development. The briefs will be couple of flyer-pages
to include visually effective graphs, charts and/or tables, and
be written for lay audiences. ACRD will create peer group
regional development program to be called Leading Edge Practices
(LEEP), a navigational tool designed to assist States in the
region in learning from one another, leading to new strategies
for accelerating innovation and collaboration.
Implement Programs that Build on Regional Opportunities
Introducing innovative programs that complement and add value to
all States within the Arewa region’s industry and occupational
clusters.
Strengthen Arewa Regional Collaboration and Innovation Networks
The mainstay of the ACRD Center of Excellence’s collaboration
work centers on its Strategic Doing initiative.
This program will focus on the use of States within the regional
networks to accelerate innovation, partnership and
collaboration. Strategic Doing quickly develops sophisticated
collaborations that help advance open innovation across
organizational and political boundaries within the entire
region. Strategic Doing ignites the spark of regional
innovation, partnership and collaboration enabling people in
loosely-joined, open networks to think and act strategically. In
partnership with Small Business Development Center’s across the
World, this program showcases the pivotal role of second-stage
firms to employment growth and prosperity and development growth
strategies, with the goal of making Arewa region an investment
destination.
Building Capacity of Local and State Governments to effectively
Address Economic and Environmental issues
The mainstay of the ACRD environmental considerations in the
overall policy-making, planning, and development process at
local and regional level are:
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Building capacity of local and States governments within the region to
effectively address specific environmental issues, concerns, and
strategic measures in areas like agriculture, transport, waste
management, and freshwater availability that have significant relevance
and implications in the context of sustainable regional development;
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Responding to emerging issues of concern, such as climate change and
human health impacts; and
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Fostering community-based natural resource/environment management to
achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
ICT is the convergence of communications, computing and
information technologies and has become the catalyst
that enhances development process of a nation...READ
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AREWA REGIONAL
DECISION-MAKERS (RDM)
Arewa Regional Decision Maker (RDM)
is a powerful suite of mapping websites and tools that enables
users to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently. RDM
facilitates and enables regional decision making in a number of
ways. Most importantly, it allows decision makers to interact
with data through customizable, user-friendly tools and
geographic visualization.
This high level of interactivity enables decision makers to
generate powerful insights more quickly for strategic economic
planning. The northern Nigeria’s regional economic ecosystems
and regional innovation clusters will focus on six major
opportunities.
Develop Cutting-Edge Online Data
Tools
The Center is focusing on developing its Regional Decision Maker
(RDM) data-driven platform. RDM will be designed to help Arewa
identify regional innovation, entrepreneurship
and
commercialization opportunities. ACRD
is working in partnership to develop this dynamic and powerful
decision-making tool. Plans are underway to develop map layers
that will show geographic clustering for industry and occupation
clusters via the use of spatial statistical techniques. When
fully launched, RDM will provide a set of value-added data
layers and customized tools for use in supporting the entire
Arewa regional planning.
Engage Key Target Groups in Using
and Refining RDM Tools
RDM represents a powerful tool for mapping regional assets and
opportunities. But, ensuring that these tools are seen as a
valuable, practical and user-friendly tool for guiding
decision-making by State leaders in northern region is equally
important. As such, the ACRD is seeking to enhance the skills of
individuals and groups that want to utilize the RDM. Activities
being planned include:
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Website
Development & Launch;
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Webinars
and Face-to-Face Training, and
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Technical
Support. Collectively, these important
activities are intended to help the
Center strengthen the relevance and
utility of the RDM to key stakeholders.
Arewa
Green Deal
Green Deal as Arewa’s new growth strategy to
make the North and its social environment
economy fit for a healthy planet. This Deal
is to address environmental issues such as
biodiversity, waste, pollution and climate
change, through the transformation of food
systems, agriculture, energy, industry,
buildings and mobility. The set of proposals
which will form part of the Green Deal
action plan would set out ambitious targets
for climate change, biodiversity, floods and
set out strategies for transforming systems
supplying energy, food and mobility to
Northerners. As the North’s new growth
strategy, the Deal and its initiatives will
central to achieve a sustainable and rapid
recovery and ultimately a just and fair
transition, which leaves no person and no
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Restructuring
is good for the North because
the North has so many Potentials of
Solid Mineral Exploration, so great
that by the time the northern
Governors realize it they will
almost forget about allocation funds
coming from Federal Government and
too much Taxes on its citizens to
generate more internally generated
revenue (IGR). The potential is
great and better than crude oil of
the south. Gold, Uranium, Iron Ore,
Gemstones, Columbite, Tantalite,
Kaolin, Goshenite and other precious
minerals are everywhere across the
north, but also Lithium Brine Rocks,
lithium-bearing pegmatite and
spodumene, a critical component for
making electric car batteries. By
2030, oil will no longer be that
important as electric cars will take
over, lithium batteries will also be
used for powerhouses and so much
more. The potentials for export of
these natural minerals and local use
in manufacturing from the north are
unparalleled. The Southerners are
just beginning to realize the
potentials and if we begin to
explore them, what it will mean to
their so-called oil; and clamour for
Restructuring. That is why some of
them are beginning to downplay the
issue of restructuring now: every
region to control its resources, but
the north must insist on
Restructuring Now. Because the
southerners erroneously believe that
northerners are backward and
uneducated and think that the north
is dependent on the south simply
because they have oil while
forgetting that the south depends on
the north for its staple foods. 80%
of food consumed in the south, apart
from cassava comes from the north:
rice, beans, maize, guinea corn,
yam, wheat, tomatoes, onions,
pepper, spices and meat: cow, goat,
and donkeys, etc. Nigeria plans to
spend 15 billion naira, about $42
million over the next year or so to
explore minerals and attract
investors into mining and reduce its
dependence on oil. Also, the north
has oil too but abundant of natural
resources: solid minerals. The North
must get its act right and the
future will be much brighter, more
prosperous and better. The teaming
Youths will have ample jobs and
things to do; and for every mining
job, 4 more jobs will be created and
the north will virtually have
near-zero-unemployment.
The
northern demographic shifts will
fuel the growth of new sectors,
markets and service lines. They will
begin to innovate and with
creativity build viable businesses
in areas of the business supply
chain, and in agriculture, livestock
mainstreaming, no more transporting
live animals to the south but
slaughtered and freight in
refrigerated trucks, renewable
energy like solar farming, ICT,
Business Processing Outsourcing and
in healthcare, manufacturing and
revitalize the Kannywood
entertainment industry in
partnership with Indian Bollywood.
Staple food commodity would no
longer be transported to the south
but buying-zones can be created
along the borderlines between north
and south for southerners to come
and purchase there. “Wallahi it is a
matter of time and the time is very
soon, it has already begun. The
unity of northern diversity is the
power that will propel the business
communities and consequently, the
northern upcoming industries into
new dimensions of performance. Soon
there will be on the horizon, more
northern banks, northern media and
corporations; and northern
intelligentsia that will meet every
contemporary challenge; build
capacity and human capital
knowledge-pool; and the end of
youths banditry, kidnappings,
communal crises, terrorism and
religious violence because everyone
will have work and meaningful things
to do under strong, compassionate
leadership, propelling the country
to a Greater Height as a whole. ICT-enabled
solutions in healthcare,
agriculture, education, financial
services and States-public services
will drive socio-economic inclusion
of everyone in the region and the
country faster, cheaper and more
efficient than traditional methods.
Indeed, the North; and Nigeria will
be Great Again. The PAN-Niger Delta
Forum said that the news that
Northern leaders, who identified
themselves as Friends of Democracy,
advocated a return to the 12-state
federal structure of 1967 and 100
percent resource control was
thought-provoking but calls for
restraint and further
cross-questioning. The Pan-Yoruba
socio-political organization,
Afenifere, said it agrees with most
of the views of the northern leaders
and hoped to inter-face with them
later, but said for a group of
northerners to now be advocating for
100 percent resource control, calls
for caution and further
interrogation.
The question been are asked is that
who will suffer if Nigeria is
restructured or in the event of a
break-up of the country in terms of
food security or development?...
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“Given the emergence of
new regional dynamics in development policy and
practice, Arewa region MUST fine-tune current regional
development perspectives and
to develop new ones that are not only more in sync with
the present and future global context but with the
governance systems being currently adopted that are
becoming more and more decentralized and grassroots
oriented. States Governors within the Arewa region must
come together to create and adopt the Arewa Regional
Economic Plan with emphasis on a balanced approach to
development and opportunity for all diversity
irrespective of one’s tribe, social class, religious
belief and even political affiliation; and establish
targets for economic growth of the entire region taking
advantage of our Demographic Shifts, which will fuel the
growth of new sectors, markets, and service lines in our
communities. The ability of our diversity to build
strength and unity is the power that will propel the
region and consequently, the Nigerian industry, into new
dimensions of performance and inclusive growth.
Catalyzing Inclusive Growth Through ICT-enabled
solutions in healthcare, education, financial services
and public services can drive socio-economic development
and inclusion of more than 30 million citizens each
year, faster, cheaper and more effectively than
traditional models. The economic plan should be built on
current regional opportunities, collaboration and
innovation linking States macroeconomic models with
regional development and economic plan termed: Regional
Econometric Model”…President
ACRD
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