Recognising that dramatic shifts have been brought about by the realities of the 21st Century as well as the roles of technology in all aspects of our lives.
Key Action: Encourage/ensure the proliferation of incubation hubs across all LGAs/LCDAs in the state to support the development of startups and SMEs. Proposal/Panel: Lagos, the Industrial Hub.
Key Actions: Create a forum for startups and SMEs and angel investors to connect to the investment opportunities inherent in the State. Proposal/Panel: Lagos, the Industrial Hub.
Key Actions: Target a number of investible ventures annually which can then be showcased by the State to interested investors. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination
Key Actions: Identify and provide key infrastructure needs for SMEs like transport, power, digital etc. that need to be addressed. Proposal/Panel: Lagos, the Industrial Hub.
Key Actions: Work to reduce broadband cost to promote increased access to internet in households and schools, thereby fostering digital literacy. Proposal/Panel: 4th Industrial Revolution: The Imperatives and Prospects for the Digital Economy.
Key Actions: Create clusters in the state for specific types of digitalization leveraging on existing community strengths e.g. Shomolu [Printing Hub], Ikeja [Digital and Entertainment Hub], Victoria Island [Adverts Hub], Yaba [schools, hospitals, rail services, institutions, entrepreneurs]. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Promote digital literacy and entrepreneurship by linking hotspots with broadband e.g. schools, hospitals, LGAs and by incorporating digital literacy into education. Proposal/Panel: Lagos, the Industrial Hub.
Key Actions: Evangelise software companies via summits and other challenges and entrench the the idea that StartUps and e-Governance are the inevitable future of Lagos. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Facilitate interface between academia (LASU, Lagos Business School etc) and other experts to support capacity building for SMEs and startups and build a critical mass of talents to bolster the supply side of the curve. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Support local content by encouraging and patronizing local Enterprise Resource Planning [ERP] system developers and e-governance solution providers. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing Innovation for Development.
Key Actions: Create incentives for technology innovation including Youth Technological Startup status, mentorship, financial support, tools and fiscal tax incentives. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing Innovation for Development.
Key Actions: Create incentives for technology innovation including Youth Technological Startup status, mentorship, financial support, tools and fiscal tax incentives. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing Innovation for Development..
The need to harness the power of the youths and to put policies and programs in place to unleash the potential of our teeming youth population was strongly highlighted.
Key Action: Make provisions for training of youth on specific skills required by private organisations. Proposal/Panel: 21st century skills - closing the unemployment gap.
Key Actions: Provide financial support and access to credit facilities for the youths after training. Proposal/Panel: 21st century skills - closing the unemployment gap.
Key Actions: Develop a sustainable Youth Policy. Proposal/Panel: Equality for all - the role of youths and women.
Key Actions: Provide capacity and skills building for youth leadership through the Youth Parliament and Cabinet initiatives. Proposal/Panel: Equality for all - the role of youths and women.
Key Actions: Identify and nurture talent (leveraging resources on the internet) to support capacity development for the youths. Proposal/Panel: Mr. Iyin Aboyeji, Future Africa / 4th Industrial Revolution.
Key Actions: Create youth entrepreneurship programmes in collaboration with partners. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing disruptive innovation for Development.
Key Actions: Collaborate with successful businesses and individuals in the state to develop sports and entertainment in the state. Specific areas should be handed over to each company/ individual to ensure adequate sponsorship and regular competitions/activity. Proposal/Panel: Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce - Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Another overwhelmingly emphasized point was the need to improve the State education system through a thorough overhaul of the curriculum with a view to providing an education that meets 21st Century realities thereby reducing youth unemployment
Key Actions: Review the teacher training curriculum and increase the frequency of training and assessment, to ensure there are more professionals developed. Proposal/Panel:Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo, HC for Education
Key Actions: Partner with the private sector and other stakeholders to develop durable infrastructure for education. Proposal/Panel: Re-imagining education: learning, unlearning, and relearning.
Key Actions: Develop a model for Education whereby Students can work while schooling (learning and doing) and learn experientially, placing emphasis on both in-school and off-school training. Proposal/Panel: Roadmap to Shared Prosperity – Ensuring Inclusive Human Capital Development.
Key Actions: Increase collaboration between industry and the educational sector including Public Private Partnerships [PPP] for establishing Vocational Training Institutions [VTC] and to drive technological innovation. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing disruptive innovation for Development.
Key Actions: Consider establishing a Secondary School Exit Programme which employs secondary school leavers for 5 years. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing disruptive innovation for Development.
Key Actions: Improve transparency with the publication of annual reports of individual education institutions, public and private, so as to improve access to private funding particularly from international donors. Proposal/Panel: Re-Imagining Education: Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning.
Key Actions: Introduce job and career fairs. Proposal/Panel: Re-Imagining Education: Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning.
Key Actions: Develop more mono-discipline, tertiary institutions through policies that would incentivise private sector participation. Proposal/Panel: Re-Imagining Education: Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning.
Key Actions: Increase spending on education to meet the UNESCO standard of 26% of the total annual budget. Proposal/Panel: Re-Imagining Education: Learning, Unlearning and Re-Learning.
Key Actions: Establish a Career Development and Skills Acquisition Department in the Ministry of Education to coordinate career development options between educational institutions and the private sector. Proposal/Panel: Re-imagining education: learning, unlearning, and relearning.
Key Actions: Create soft skills training content from primary to tertiary level (including critical thinking, innovation creativity, and leadership) that can be easily accessed, especially online given the youth population is highly mobile internet-enabled. Proposal/Panel: 21st Century Skills - Closing Unemployment Gap for the Next Generation of Leaders.
Key Action: Expedite work on the revision of the curriculum with support from agencies like LASRIC (STEM intervention), Digital Lagos (to embed digital technology), LSETF (Entrepreneurship) as well as the Private Sector to create a ‘curriculum plus’ approach in the formulation of policies in education. Proposal/Panel: Unleashing disruptive innovation for Development.
Recognising that dramatic shifts have been brought about by the realities of the 21st Century as well as the roles of technology in all aspects of our lives, it is recommended that Government.
Key Action: Mirror nation-state investment policies and implement reforms that attract investment. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Build economic partnerships with countries and cities with which there are strong synergies, mutual strengths and / or areas of developmental learnings. Proposal/Panel: Ms. Helen Grant - Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Improve visibility of potential investors to projects, commercial and investment opportunities. Proposal/Panel: Ms. Helen Grant - Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Establish top-level technical working groups and regular business matching sessions to drive increase in trade, capacity building and knowledge sharing. This will also further enhance the reputation of Lagos. Proposal/Panel: Ms. Helen Grant - Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Remove trade barriers for local and international companies to enhance the ease of doing business in Nigeria. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Make innovative investments in green house farming and dairy villages, working with the private sector and prioritizing involvement of young people. Proposal/Panel: Unlocking Agricultural Potential to ensure Food Security and Sustainability.
Key Actions: Leverage expertise and market demand to create a medical tourism hub. Proposal/Panel: Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Key Actions: Make the State business-friendly relative to African and Global peers by automating procedures, processes and payments, providing up-to-date information on taxes and laws with the state, streamlining taxes, rules and regulations and ensuring policy stability. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Develop sectors in which the state had a regional or global competitive advantage such as the ocean / blue economy, entertainment and the fintech sector. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Open up the market by developing strong multi-modal transportation links (road, rail, air and water channels) to leverage the advantage of proximity to other ports in West Africa. Proposal/Panel: Eko to the World: Shaping the Future of Trade and Economic Independence.
Key Actions: Establish Strategic Food Reserves in all Local Councils. Proposal/Panel: Unlocking Agricultural Potential to ensure Food Security and Sustainability.
Key Actions: Improve concessioning and Public-Private Partnership frameworks. Proposal/Panel: Eko to the World: Shaping the Future of Trade and Economic Independence.
Key Actions: Foster tourism industry stakeholders’ participation in policy formulation and implementation including developing a think tank of practitioners in the industry, improving sensitization on government intervention programs and establishing a Resolution Execution Committee for tourism. Proposal/Panel: Made in Lagos: Media, Entertainment, Culture and Tourism.
Key Actions: Create a Lagos State Tourism Development fund as well as Tourism Divisional Offices across the State. Proposal/Panel: Made in Lagos: Media, Entertainment, Culture and Tourism.
Key Actions: Establish a “Lagos Movie Village” to accommodate more than 20,000 Audience and boost investment in physical spaces the industry can utilise (e.g. theatres). Proposal/Panel: Made in Lagos: Media, Entertainment, Culture and Tourism.
Some of the conspicuous infrastructure development, especially increased road networks, housing schemes and optic fibre investments were appreciated and encouraged to be scaled up to cater for its demographic endowment.
Key Action: Create a 50-year energy plan to serve the projected 40 to 50 million people expected to be in Lagos – power plants, distribution, digital, domestic, solar, clean and sustainable energy. Proposal/Panel: Eko to the World: Shaping the Future of Trade and Economic Independence.
Key Actions: Invest in broadband internet connection around the city and continue to support infrastructure companies to make broadband internet accessible to all. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Establish a Sustainability Bond framework. Proposal/Panel: Funding Growth Sustainably.
Key Actions: Invest in continuously developing more and better roads, improving distribution terminals , fixing access roads (e.g to the ports) and roads leading out of Lagos. Proposal/Panel: Lagos, the Industrial Hub.
Key Actions: Position Lagos as the first green city in Africa by transitioning the public transportation system to cleaner alternative fuel (CNG, LNG, electric) and efficient technology vehicles and developing a roadmap to ensure all cars in the city would be electric-powered cars after 10 years. Proposal/Panel: Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce.
Key Actions: Phase-out used cars from Lagos roads to encourage the growth of the automobile industry. Proposal/Panel: Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce.
Key Actions: Build production clusters to create viable economic communities e.g. entertainment, maritime, technology. Proposal/Panel: Eko to the World: Shaping the Future of Trade and Economic Independence.
Some of the conspicuous infrastructure development, especially increased road networks, housing schemes and optic fibre investments were appreciated and encouraged to be scaled up to cater for its demographic endowment.
Key Action: Create a 50-year energy plan to serve the projected 40 to 50 million people expected to be in Lagos – power plants, distribution, digital, domestic, solar, clean and sustainable energy. Proposal/Panel: Eko to the World: Shaping the Future of Trade and Economic Independence.
Key Actions: Invest in broadband internet connection around the city and continue to support infrastructure companies to make broadband internet accessible to all. Proposal/Panel: Destination Lagos: Becoming the World’s Best Investment Destination.
Key Actions: Establish a Sustainability Bond framework. Proposal/Panel: Funding Growth Sustainably.
Key Actions: Invest in continuously developing more and better roads, improving distribution terminals , fixing access roads (e.g to the ports) and roads leading out of Lagos. Proposal/Panel: Lagos, the Industrial Hub.
Key Actions: Position Lagos as the first green city in Africa by transitioning the public transportation system to cleaner alternative fuel (CNG, LNG, electric) and efficient technology vehicles and developing a roadmap to ensure all cars in the city would be electric-powered cars after 10 years. Proposal/Panel: Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce.
Key Actions: Phase-out used cars from Lagos roads to encourage the growth of the automobile industry. Proposal/Panel: Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce.
Key Actions: Build production clusters to create viable economic communities e.g. entertainment, maritime, technology. Proposal/Panel: Eko to the World: Shaping the Future of Trade and Economic Independence.
The invaluable role of data in economic growth and development was noted and Government was enjoined to upgrade the functions of the Lagos Bureau of Statistics to be an independent, professional Bureau so as to boost data management for development.
Key Action: Implement the required regulation to govern harnessing data from various sources. Proposal/Panel: Security Law and Order.
Key Actions: Democratize data by facilitating contributions to the centralized data bank to encourage citizen participation in data generation. Proposal/Panel: Professor Kenneth Amaeshi / Sustainability, measurement, and reporting.
Key Actions: Establish government databank where information can be aggregated from all available databases to ensure objective data is available for planning of State priorities. Proposal/Panel: Security Law and Order.
Key Actions: Improve data collection, identity management, house numbering, and property identification. Proposal/Panel: Funding Growth Sustainably.
Key Actions: Harmonize, upgrade and digitalize the multiple intra - agencies and intra- state data systems, delineating areas of specialization to avoid overlap and duplication. Proposal/Panel: Professor Kenneth Amaeshi / Sustainability, measurement, and reporting.
Key Actions: Leverage every opportunity to request the relevant data from Citizens. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Train staff to be digitally competent and abreast of rapid changes in ICT with a view to being more customer-centric and e-governance enabled. Proposal/Panel: Security Law and Order.
Key Actions: Strengthen the research agencies. Proposal/Panel: Security Law and Order.
The Summit recommended that greater attention to be paid to matters of women and children and emphasised that Government must continue to pay attention to the inclusion of people with disabilities as well as the poor and vulnerable in the society.
Key Action: Drive for inclusive Health Insurance for all. Proposal/Panel: Shaping the Future of Health.
Key Actions: Establish a campaign for the restoration of family values and norms. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Promote citizen participation in the process of governance to stimulate accountability and transparency by leveraging digital governance and use of social media for feedback mechanism on public service delivery. Proposal/Panel: Role of Transparency, Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability in Governance.
Key Actions: Allocate more resources to address special issues, particularly capacity building for women. Proposal/Panel: Security Law and Order.
Key Actions: Implement strong family planning regulations to curb the antithetical practice of giving birth to children with no economic plan for their development. Proposal/Panel: Roadmap to Shared Prosperity – Ensuring Inclusive Human Capital Development.
Key Actions: Tackle Child Malnutrition right from pregnancy through to infancy. Proposal/Panel: Roadmap to Shared Prosperity – Ensuring Inclusive Human Capital Development.
Key Actions: Establish reliable database of out-of- work /unemployed individuals at Local Government level for necessary assistance. Proposal/Panel: Roadmap to Shared Prosperity – Ensuring Inclusive Human Capital Development.
Key Actions: Provide more support to formalise the informal sector and enable them access credit facilities. Proposal/Panel: 21st Century Skills - Closing Unemployment Gap for the Next Generation of Leaders.
The State Government must continue to build strong law enforcement institutions, develop zero-tolerance for law breaking and indiscipline as well as hold its Public Officers accountable for unethical behaviour.
Key Action: Address the constitutional arrangement as well as challenges with accurate data which still remain an impediment to efficient justice delivery. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Rejuvenate the judiciary to embrace new technology in the discharge of its constitutional responsibility to the citizenry and automate procedural processes where possible, in line with best practice e.g. the process of case allocation to Judges. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Eradicate use of professional delay tactics in the course of justice delivery by stakeholders. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Abolish Fancy Dress (silk & gown) operational in the Judiciary. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Abolish excessive proceduralisation in the Judiciary. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Establish a mechanism for thorough investigation of Public Office holders indicted of any wrongdoing. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Improve transparency of institutions to help reduce pressure and gradually remove the norm of ‘begging’. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Improve transparency of decision-making processes, what is accruable to the Government, disbursement of public funds and framework for funding candidates and political parties. Proposal/Panel: Role of Transparency, Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability in Governance.
Key Actions: Evolve a dynamic resolution mechanism with emphasis on quick dispensation of Justice. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Automate procurement process and operations of government from end-to-end and continue to improve on all transparency compliance mechanism. Proposal/Panel: Role of Transparency, Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability in Governance.
Key Actions: Strengthen regulation and enforcement such that citizens are afraid to break the law and collaborate with key stakeholders to jettison the axiom that “laws are meant for the fools”. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Uphold merit-based recruitment and appointment into public office. Proposal/Panel: Role of Transparency, Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability in Governance.
Key Actions: Implement a robust performance management framework with and SMART goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), with appropriate support system to help achieve evidenced- based institutional transparency and strong consequence framework to achieve self-ownership of success and failure. Proposal/Panel: Role of Transparency, Institutional Effectiveness and Accountability in Governance.
Key Actions: Develop a roadmap for sustainable, competent and efficient digital e-governance and adopt digitisation across all government businesses e.g. go paperless, digitalize payments. Proposal/Panel: Shaping the Future of Governance with Technology.
The current level of public enlightenment and publicity of Government’s plans, projects and programs needs to be improved. There is a need to ramp up and find new ways of creating public awareness and improving participation in government programs.
Key Action: Policy formulated must be well communicated to the citizens for wider acceptability and obedience without coercion. Proposal/Panel: Strengthening Governance, Institutions and Legislations.
Key Actions: Jointly determine a common set of values which will be held sacred by all Lagosians. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Establish more fora for open, transparent, sustained and accessible communication including holding more localized and decentralized Town Hall meetings in the Local Government Areas. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Encourage greater interface and accessibility between the Local Government tier and citizens. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Involve Civil Society Organisations in the monitoring of projects as well as public advocacy and enlightenment. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Work actively to change the perception of non-inclusion - every citizen must feel involved. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Pay particular attention to the aspirations of young and old citizens, especially to address the existing political apathy of the youth. Proposal/Panel: Citizen Participation in Governance.
Key Actions: Leverage the media to increase awareness on the idea of sustainability. Proposal/Panel: Mainstreaming sustainability in Governance and Business.
Key Actions: Extend incentives to COVID-19 impacted entrepreneurs to ensure that their businesses do not undergo permanent damage. Proposal/Panel: Funding Growth Sustainably.
All parties stressed the importance of and renewed commitment to improved partnerships and collaboration across National, State, and other Sub-national Governments, the Private Sector, Civil Society, and the International Community.
Key Action: Raise awareness among international business and donor communities of socially and commercially beneficial investment projects. Proposal/Panel: Ms. Helen Grant MP / Destination Lagos : Shaping up as the world’s best investment destination.
Key Actions: Intensify and foster a deliberate and conscious collaboration of higher institutions in Lagos State and partnerships with international organizations on the environment, technology/informatics etc. Proposal/Panel: Professor Kenneth Amaeshi / Sustainability, measurement, and reporting.
Key Actions: Seek to leverage research support grants. Proposal/Panel: Achieving Resilience through Partnerships and Collaboration.
Key Actions: Partner organisations utilizing their resources for interventions in areas like emission reduction, zero carbon reduction etc. Proposal/Panel: Achieving Resilience through Partnerships and Collaboration.
Key Actions: Establish a Disaster Management Trust Fund to facilitate collaboration between agencies in the disaster preparedness. Proposal/Panel: Achieving Resilience through Partnerships and Collaboration
Key Actions: Create a Sustainability Plan with defined roles for public as well as private sector to encourage participation leveraging the UNDP SDG framework. Proposal/Panel: Mainstreaming Sustainability in Governance and Business.