STIMULATING EFFECTIVE POLICY MONITORING AND EVALUATION IN THE FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICIES IN NIGERIA PUBLIC SECTOR

Abstract

This study tries to explore policy monitoring and evaluation system in formulating government policies in Nigeria. While appreciable monitoring data and reports are being generated, the Nigeria Federal government still faces a lot of significant policy challenges. The current economic recession is a strong indicator, x-raying significant policy failure both from the previous and present administration. Issues discussed in this paper includes introducing policy monitoring and evaluation structure in the process of policy formulation; Comparative analysis of policy stability in some practicing countries in relation to the Nigeria experience. Deriving from the Marxian theory of social production, the potentials of change in government policy formulation strategy becomes very necessary and the institutional capacity of the federal government to engineer this change is problematized.