The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) is partnering the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and the Federal Government to fund the building of a Nigeria COVID-19 Incidence and Resource Tracker, Dashboard and Predictive Analytic Platform (Systems Platform).
The NESG Chief Executive Officer, Laoye Jaiyeola, said on Wednesday in a statement that once deployed, the systems platform would provide a National and Sub-National Inventory Management System.
According to Jaiyeola, this is to assist in the containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.
The Systems Platform solution is expected to provide a robust, up-to-date database of Federal and Sub-National resource and availability requirements for the COVID-19 response, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended resource specifications on packages for COVID-19.
Jaiyeola said: “This will give national visibility of what is procured, in-stock and out-of-stock across the Federal and State Testing, Treatment and Isolation Centres.
“The real-time data provided will enable the government, private sector, international organisations and other donors to mobilise more effectively in providing the critical human and material resources needed to support the country’s response to the pandemic.’’
Also, Ofovwe Aig-Imoukhuede, a Director of AIG, said: “This is key for the future of Nigeria’s COVID-19 response.
“This is beyond improving the transparency, accountability and governance of national resources co-sourced from public, private and development sectors towards the COVID-19 response.
“The Predictive Analytic Model embedded in the Platform will enable the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, and the NCDC to predict and project the rate of infections, deaths and consequent resource requirements,” Aig-Imoukhuede explained.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on May 19, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 endorsed the partnership between AIG and NESG for the development of the Systems Platform.
The systems platform is equally deployed in collaboration with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.
The PTF on COVID-19 is made up of Heads of the Federal Ministry of Health, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies of government.
The systems platform is expected to improve the National and State Health Information Management System by adding the platform’s capabilities seamlessly to the country’s existing data ecosystem.
The objective is to help in galvanising efforts at efficiently plugging nationwide resource gaps across the three priority areas of Testing, Treatment and Isolation and Contact Tracing and Tracking in the context of COVID-19.
AIG is a not-for-profit founded to inspire the transformation of Africa’s public sector. AIG works with governments, academic institutions and other partners to improve governance and transform public sector performance.
AIG’s pioneering initiative brings proven private sector innovation, leadership and funding to the public sector in a private-public partnership that seeks to attract, inspire and support future leaders of Africa’s public sector.
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is a private sector led think-tank and research-based policy advocacy organisation that promotes sustainable and inclusive growth in the Nigerian economy.
It is a not-for profit/non-partisan organisation with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into an open, private sector-led economy that is inclusive, globally competitive on a sustainable basis.
