:: Federal Ministry of Science and Technology ::

The Planning Research and Policy Analysis (PRPA) Department is, as usual, the hub of most of the key activities of the Ministry; as a result, the PRPA is an extremely busy department all the year round

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Until recently, the Department was made up of three divisions, but due to enormous volume of work of the divisions, it became necessary to request for the creation of a fourth division. Presently, therefore, the following divisions have been proposed:

           Planning Division
           Research Division
           Policy and Linkages Division
           Bi-& Multilatéral Relations Division

Details of the organizational structure, the schedule of each desk officer is as follows:

The department is grossly understaffed both at the top and the middle cadre with only two Deputy Directors, one Assistant Director and one Assistant Chief.
One division (Bi- and Multi-lateral Relations) has no management staff at all, as a result the schedule of two divisions are merged into one and put under the Assistant director who has been in the Department much longer than the two Deputy Directors.
Three key top management and middle level officers namely, Mr. I. A. Bakori, Mr. E. A. Anyanwu and Mr. B. Mbahi, although are on the official staff list of the Department, are physically absent as indicated in the table A. above.

As usual with ‘PRS’ departments service wide, the Department handles quite a wide range of activities; the key functions may be outlined as follows:

Planning Division:
- Departmental Admin. Matters,
- Capital Budget/Rolling Plan Preparations,
- National Council on Science and Technology (NCST) Matters,
- Organisation of Meetings, Workshops & Conferences,
- Liaising with the National Assembly,
- Supervision of the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM).

Research Division:
- Project Monitoring & Evaluation,
- Compilation & Documentation of quarterly/annual reports of the Ministry and its parastatals,
- Organisation of Annual Ministerial Press Briefing,
- Supervision of the National Institute of Science Laboratory Technology (NISLT),
- Research grant solicitation, sourcing & administration,
- Collation of statistical data and their interpretation,
- Federal Executive Council (FEC) Memos,
- Organisation’s Operational and Management (OOMR),
- (Moribond) Management of National S&T Risk Fund,
- Library & Documentation,
- Handling of Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) issues.

Policy & Linkages Division:
-        Linkages with Research Institutes of other MDAs, Industries & Private Sector,
-        Linkages with National & International Scientific Organizations and the Educational Sector,
-        Linkages with NUC & Tertiary Institutions,
-        Linkages with other Federal & State MDAs,
-        Linkages with NPC especially on NEEDS, MDG & VISION 20-20/20
-        Linkages with SGF on NNVS & DIASPORA DAY

Bi- and Multilateral Division:
-        Coordination of Bilateral & Multilateral Organizational issues,
-        Handling of S&T Policy issues,
-        Settlement of Nigeria’s Obligation/debt to International Organisations,
-        Handling of HPAC/S&T matters,
-        Handling of African and Nigerian Academy of Sciences (AAS) issues.

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