Welcome to the Central Delivery Coordination Unit (CDCU)

The Central Delivery Coordination Unit (CDCU) is a unit under the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation with the mandate of tracking the performance towards the delivery of the Nine Presidential Priority Areas of the President Buhari Administration. Beyond performance tracking and project management delivery support, the CDCU has been set up as an enabling platform to support Ministries, Department, and Agencies of Government to deliver on the Priority Areas, Mandates, and Deliverables assigned to Honourable Ministers and Permanent Secretaries as a performance bond to drive the achievement of the Presidential Priority Areas.

The CDCU is housed in a state of the art facility located at the Cabinet Affairs Office (CAO) in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. The Unit is tasked with identifying bottlenecks and supporting MDAs to highlight key challenges and opportunities for scale at the highest level of government with the aim of enabling delivery and supporting Honourable Ministers to focus on priorities that provide the maximum derivable value for the citizens of the country.

While the Federal Government has rightly focused on developing strategic plans and policy development frameworks around achieving sectoral priorities as shown in the 9 Presidential Priority Areas, the implementation and execution required to achieve those targets are usually more difficult to track when assessing for impact.

It is this component that the CDCU is tasked to solve by changing the culture of government to one that is focused on accountability, results delivery, and improving the way the government gets better results quicker.  The core functions of the CDCU are further provided below:

3.0      Core Functions of the Delivery Unit

The core functions of the Delivery Unit focus on the following:

• Track the implementation of the 9 Priority Areas of Government by reviewing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) submitted by MDAs and ensuring they are specific, measurable, and time-bound targets and can be tracked for value for money and result delivery.

• Review and agree on KPIs especially as it relates to engaging and analyzing results of implementation through stocktake meetings to determine enablers and bottlenecks that can limit the achievement of the ministerial mandates and provide a framework on how these issues can be resolved through the highest level of government.

• Work closely with the Delivery Task Teams across MDAs to operationalize the Delivery Management through (1) Selection of projects, programs, and policies that can deliver results at scale, (2) Provide technical support around data & quality assurance (3) Track early warning signals and(4) Provide reports on sectoral performance as it relates to the implementation of the Ministerial mandates

• Perform monitoring spot checks to determine what is happening at every part of the delivery chain process; identifying areas where implementations are (not) working and why?

• Integrate citizen engagement as part of the reporting chain and facilitate an independent platform to gauge the perception of citizens' in delivery government enabled services both from a service delivery and service quality perspectives.

• Partner with MDAs or NBS to carry out external validations and sector performance reviews and evaluation studies on the impact of government’s programme, policies and projects to the achievement of the strategic objectives.