The role of the MSTF will be to catalyse development in the Niger Delta region in addition to, but not as a replacement for or alternative to, Federal, State or Local Government functioning in the region. In the first instance, the following activities of the MSTF in the implementation of the Action Plan are foreseen:
1. The provision of Grants & Revolving Credit Schemes for individuals, Community Based Organizations, Civil Society, Cooperatives etc. to support their participation in inclusive enterprise models or M4P programmes.
2. The Provision of Technical Assistance. There is a need to provide expert advice and support to companies, groups, stakeholders who want to implement, participate in or learn from inclusive enterprise models, or pilot M4P approaches.
3. Establishing a Challenge Fund instrument. Challenge funds are a mechanism for allocating and disbursing public funds efficiently and fairly. The intention is to get funds to the organizations that truly need them and can use them effectively to realize the broader aims of public policy; and to do this transparently. In the case of the Niger Delta thenterprisee instrument would be used to provide support to organizations that have proven inclusive models which they want to scale up or replicate. Provision of “additionality” investments. There are many opportunities for strategic coordination and shared services which are unlikely to be embarked upon by individual states but if done will provide huge additional benefit.
4. Large scale, longer-term Investments. The fund will eventually also coordinate efforts by state & local government where its role would be primarily planning and coordination, rather than delivery of actual investment sums, which would remain the role of the parties responsible for the actions in question under the Nigerian constitution.
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