F E D E R A L M I N I S T R Y O F Y O U T H D E V E L O P M E N T

ByINUWA ABDUL-KADIR, Esq

Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Youth Development

INTRODUCTION• It is an established fact that youth, as future leaders, are the most

valuable national asset and investment in their upbringing, development and empowerment is therefore very essential for the progress and development of our nation.

• The National Youth Policy defines youth as persons aged between 18 – 35 years. They constitute the largest demographic group with an estimated population of about 80 million that is rapidly increasing.

• A lot has been done for youth development but much more needs to be done considering the sheer population and complexity of the task of effective management of youth issues.

• In spite of investments in youth development, restiveness, violent crimes, drugs abuse and other social vices continue to pose serious challenges.

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Establishment of the Ministry

• The Ministry started as a unit and grew progressively from a Division to a Department through 9 Ministries in 25 years. It became a full-fledged Ministry in January 2007.

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• VISIONTo empower the Nigerian youth to become self reliant and

socially responsible

• MISSIONTo provide a sustainable framework for integrated planning and

collaboration among stakeholders for the development of policies and programmes, laws and other initiatives that promote and enhance the development of the Nigerian youth and the protection of their interests.

Vision – Mission

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Network and Social Mobilization (NSM)

Successful sitting of the YouthParliament and replication in some statesSuccessful Review of the NYCN Constitution and conduct of congressCategorization of NGO and development of working relationship guideline

Enterprise Development and Promotion (EDP)

Successful execution of the MDG Supported Youth in Agriculture ProgrammeSuccessful training on agricultural extension serviceSuccessful implementation of Vocational training

STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

The Ministry has Six Departments and Two Agencies.

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STRUCTURE AND ACTIVITIES OF DEPARTMENTS OF AGENCIES

Education and Youth Development (EYD)

Capacity building workshop for career youth development officersSuccessful training of 246 youth on civic education and responsibilitySuccessful holding of Bilateral meeting between Nigeria – NigerBi-National Commission Meeting held in Cape town , South Africa

National Youth Service Corps

Successful implementation of skills acquisition & entrepreneurship development programme Successful implementation of agro-entrepreneurship training and disbursement of loans to corps members.Deployment of corps members in three batches totaling over 227,136 in 2012

Citizenship and Leadership Training Center (C&LTC)

Successful training and reorienting of youth at risk .Increase patronage of the center programmes.5

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE PROFILE FOR THE YEAR 2012.

Budget Breakdown

Projected InvestmentPlan under 1st NIP (N)

Budget Allocation Internally Generated Revenue(IGR) (N)

Donor/PrivateSector Contribution(N)

Total Expenditure

Appropriation(N)

Budget Warrant Released(N)

Amount Cash Backed(N)

FMYDCapital   5,762,094,1

002,598,937, 420.80

2,598,937, 420.80

------- ------- 2,598,937, 420.80

Recurrent   622,843,469

622,843,469 622,843,469     622,843,469

NYSCCapital 1,126,938,5

97540,410,921 538,107,463 --------- ------ 538,107,463

Recurrent 68,946,528,221

66,738,828,310

66,738,828,310 ------ ------- 66,738,828,310

C&LTCCapital   258,200,00

0161,374,319 123,526,184 ------ --------- 123,423,695

Recurrent    942, 353, 998

951, 353, 998 

 796, 162, 123

     783, 732, 624

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KEY OUTCOMES DELIVEREDS/N PERFORMANCE INDICATOR 2012 PLANNED TARGET 2012 (ACTUAL AS AT DECFMYD1 Construction/equipping of

Youth Development centres Completion of 9 Youth Centres in Takai, Sumaila, Kudan, Katsina, Biu, Ode-Omu, Awka, Ikot-Ekpene, Agbokim

All awarded components in the Nine Youth Centres are completed 

2 Strategic partnerships in youth empowerment in agro-allied enterprises.

Provision of loans and grants to ex - Corps members for Agro-Business

M.O.U Signed with T.Y Danjuma Foundation, Discussion on-going with Songhai Centre, NERFUND, Bank of Agric, and other relevant MDAs.

3 Commencement of the Nigerian Youth Entrepreneurship Development Programme (NYEDP) 

Part of a two year plan for capacity building and strengthening of relations with the Commonwealth Office.

Engagement of Technical Adviser from the Commonwealth Secretariat, London Office. 

4 MDG funded programme for Youth in Agriculture.

Training and Empowerment of Agro- Entrepreneurs

634 Youth trained and awarded grants of N200,000.00 each. 

5 Implementation of Constituency project for Zamfara West Senatorial District

To facilitate the training of Youth in Agro-Allied Skills.

279 Youth were trained and awarded grants and Materials

6 Establishment of Nigerian Youth Parliament and its replication at State Levels  

To inaugurate the Sitting of the Second Parliament and advocate the establishment of State Youth Parliaments.

Sitting of the second session of the Youth Parliament, Annual town hall meetings and the establishment of State Youth Parliaments in Kano, Bauchi, Kogi, Benue States. Akwa- Ibom.

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7 Implementation of the reform of the NYSC and its restructuring.

Reviewing the Posting Policy and the restructuring of the NYSC and its activities for corps members

Posting policy implemented and Reform Committee submitted its report. 

8 Partnership with International Ecological Safety Collaborative Organization (IESCO) to provide technical assistance on green jobs, Ecological/Environmental safety and climate change for youth.

To provide equipment and technical expertise to the existing Youth Development Centres in the Country.

M.O.U Signed

9 Partnership with UN Habitat To establish a one Stop Youth Development and Information Centre for West Africa in Nigeria.

M.O.U Signed   

10 Providing a platform for young peoples’ voices to be heard

Repositioning of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) to meet the global set standards

NYCN Constitution reviewed and Elective Congress to be Conducted.

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UNDP Junior Professional Officers (JPO) Programme

Recruit and expose young Nigerians to the UN System and international Civil Service.

M.O.U Signed with the UN System, Road map for implementation developed and Selection of participants to commence.

KEY OUTCOMES DELIVERED contd.

Over 1,781,826 Youth were empowered in 2012

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ACTIVITIES OF

THE MINISTRY

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ACTIVITIES OF

THE MINISTRY

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STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENTS

Meeting of the 5th National Council on Youth Development•The Council Resolved and urged the Federal Government to:

– Undertake an effective anti-drug abuse campaign programme.

– Execute a National Action Programme for Value Orientation and Effective Engagement of Youth.

– Convene a National Stakeholders’ Summit on Youth Development.

– Continue collaboration with relevant stakeholders to create jobs for youth through Agro-related businesses.

– Continue the survey for a National Youth Index that will provide detailed data on the status of youth in Nigeria .

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• Second Sitting of the Second Session

of the Nigeria Youth Parliament was convened and resolutions on issues affecting young people were passed for onward transmission to the National Assembly for consideration.

• The Nigeria Youth Parliament held a Town Hall Meeting in Minna, Niger State.

• State youth parliaments were established in Bauchi, Osun, Kano, Benue and Akwa-Ibom,

• Commonwealth Youth Parliament- African Region held its sitting in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State.

• The African Youth Day was marked.• National Youth Council of Nigeria

(NYCN) Zonal Consultative meetings were held as part of the efforts to transform the council.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENTs cont’d.

Speaker of the Youth Parliament

Youth Parliament in session

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STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENTS Cond

Open conversation with Ministers from relevant MDAs was held as part of activities marking the 2012 International Youth Week where Ministers interacted with young people on their Ministries activities on youth empowerment.

A participants asking question during theOpen Conversation with Ministers.

Hon. Minister of Youth Development withHon. Minister of State Trade and Investment,Chairman House Committee on Youth and DG-NYSC during Open Conversation Forum.

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REFORMS OF THE NYSC

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REFORMS OF THE NYSC• The need to review policies, restructure and realign the NYSC Scheme with

the Federal Government’s Transformation Agenda led to the setting up of a Ministerial Committee, which came up with the following recommendations:– Review of the current posting policy: review of the current posting

policy as a result of challenges encountered in its implementation to allow Corps members to benefit from private and public sector experiences in order to increase their chance of gainful engagement and employment after service.

– Adoption of Information Technology for Documentation and Certification of Corps members

– Revival of the NYSC Agriculture Farms

– Establishing synergy between NYSC and NUC, NBTE, JAMB to harmonize carrying capacity of Corps deploying institutions to obtain reliable data on Corps mobilization.

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PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURAL INITIATIVES:

• 634 youth trained in the MDG Supported Youth in Agriculture Programme for 2012.

• 667 youth trained at farm centres in Delta, Katsina and Rivers State.

• The Ministry signed an MOU with TY Danjuma Foundation to provide training in Agro-business and grants for ex-corps members .

 • 279 youth were trained and empowered in the

Agricultural Empowerment Programme for Youth in Zamfara West Senatorial District. It also featured an exclusive programme for female youth in the District.

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YOUTH IN AGRICULTURE

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YOUTH IN AGRICULTURE

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PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURAL INITIATIVES:

Youth Entrepreneurs assemble for training at a pastry and milk processing plant at Owode-Egba

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PARTNERSHIPS UN SYSTEM:•UNIDO: The Ministry commenced discussions with UNIDO on developing the mechanism that will attract young people into Agriculture as catalyst for development.

•UNDP: Nigeria signed an MOU with the UNDP in December to recruit young Nigerian Professionals to work in the UN System for a minimum of two years through the Junior Professionals Programme (JPO).

•Since the inception of the JPO programme by the UN System over 50 years ago, Nigeria is the first African Country to become a donor member. Nigeria is starting with 37 JPOs. Hon. Minister, (second from right, second row) at the

9th Meeting of National Recruitment Services and UN Organisations on the Associate Expert/JPO/APO Programmes in Stockholm, Sweden

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• United Nation Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA): The Ministry is working with UNFPA to implement youth friendly initiatives under the UNFPA’s 6th Country Programme of Assistance (6th CPA). Some of these include:– Establishment of Youth Friendly Centres within the

Ministry’s Youth Development Centres and training of officers who will work as Counselors at the Centres.

– Development and production of a National Framework on Adolescent Reproductive Health for the country in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Health,

– Supporting the reforms of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) by facilitating the review of its constitution as well as the development of a Strategic Action Plan for the Council.

• UN HABITAT: the Ministry signed an MOU with the UN-HABITAT to establish a ‘One Stop’ Youth Development & Information Centre in Nigeria for West Africa.

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• UN Habitat is Supporting the Ministry to develop a framework for managing its Youth Centres in the areas of skills acquisition, ICT, etc

• Ministry is in partnership with International Ecological Safety Collaborative Organization (IESCO) in developing mechanism for Green Jobs and other environmentally friendly initiatives for youth engagement.

• The IESCO will train and certify 1000 Nigerian trainers in China on green jobs, climate change and other wealth creation opportunities.

• Thereafter, similar institutions and training would be replicated in Nigeria.

Prof. Jian Mingjun, President of IESCO, Inuwa Abdul-Kadri, Esq, Hon. Minister YouthDevelopment and Prof. Oyebanji Oyeyinka, Director, Research UN Habitat, signing an MOU. 22

COMMONWEALTH YOUTH PROGRAMME, AFRICA CENTRE

•12 Youth Development Officers in the Ministry participated in the 2012 edition of the International Programme on Youth Entrepreneurship Training (IPYET) Zambia

•The University of Abuja is running a Commonwealth Professional Diploma programme on Youth Development on behalf of the Ministry.

•A job creation strategy to provide 10,000 jobs in two years has been developed by the Ministry in collaboration with the Commonwealth. To this end, a Technical Adviser has been deployed by the Commonwealth Secretariat to work with the Ministry from 2013 – 2015 towards achieving this.

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ECOWAS COMMISSION •The Ministry supported 12 Nigerian youth to participate at the ECOWAS Annual Youth Empowerment Programme/ Training for Youth in Agriculture and Mechanical/Electrical works which were held in Songhai, Porto Novo, Benin Republic and Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso respectively. •Beneficiaries were supported with take-off grants by the Ministry.

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POLICY INITIATIVES• 7 new policies were initiated:

1. Introduction of Leadership, Value Orientation and Reorientation Components in all Youth Development /Empowerment Programmes either skilled or knowledge based

2. Introduction of the National Patriot Campaign- this is aimed at launching a campaign for patriotism among young people through revamping the volunteer activities of school and faith based youth organizations i.e the Scout, Girls’ Guide, Boys Brigade.

Hon. Minister with National Leader of Girls’ Guild during courtesy visit.

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POLICY INITIATIVES3. Scaling up and Sustaining Youth Development and Empowerment Activities in Nigeria through PPP arrangement. 4.Scaling up and strengthening of Partnership with relevant MDAs, and NGOs to develop an elaborate Youth Empowerment Project.

Hon. Minister with the Leadership of the Nigerian Scout Movementat their 2012 Annual General Meeting .

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POLICY INITIATIVES5. Reform of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN): Ministry has supported and supervised the review of the NYCN Constitution 6. The Ministry is developing a framework for National Mentorship Programme7. Restructuring of the Ministry’s departments and units to align with Commonwealth recommended standard.

Youth participants at the C&LTC camping programme

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National Youth Index• The Ministry commissioned the National Bureau of

Statistics for the first time to conduct a nationwide survey on the status of youth in Nigeria for the development of a National Youth Index.

• The survey covers areas of youth in education, health, employment, agriculture, migration, ICT, conflict resolution, crime, and drug abuse

• The data is being processed and the outcome will be published soon.

A group of Students during life skill training at C&LTC Centre

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YOUTH MOBILISATION AND NETWORKING:

• The Ministry has designed and undertaken a number of initiatives to give the youth a voice. These include:– Reactivation of a Tweet Conference on Social Media. – Upgrade of the ministry’s website to Youth Development

Virtual Resource Centre– Strengthening and repositioning of working guidelines

between the Ministry and Voluntary Youth Organizations(VYOs).

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE• Opening of Zonal

Offices: the Ministry operates 6 zonal offices, one in each geo-political zone to decentralize its programmes to States and Local Governments.

 • Building Youth

Development Centres: currently, the Ministry is supervising the construction of additional 29 Youth Development Centres as constituency projects across the Country. Above: National Youth Centre, Owode Egba, Ogun State

Below: National Youth Centre, Ode-Omu, Osun State

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE

National Youth Development Centre, Gwaram, Jigawa State

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE

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SECTION B: AGENCIES OF THE MINISTRY

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NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS (NYSC)

• Mandate: To mobilize Nigerian Youths for national cohesion, development and self-reliance.

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ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS

•The NYSC annually mobilizes an average of 250,000 graduates. However, 227,136 corps members served in 2012.

•658 Corps members were trained and empowered under the MDGs to establish agro-enterprises.

•131,659 Corps members were given Skill Acquisition and entrepreneurship development training.

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ACTIVITIES OF NYSC

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ACTIVITIES OF NYSC

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ACTIVITIES OF NYSC

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CITIZENSHIP AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING CENTRE (C&LTC)

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CITIZENSHIP AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING CENTRE (C&LTC)

• The Citizenship and Leadership Training Centre (CLTC), is one of the oldest national institutions established since 1951.

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CITIZENSHIP AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING CENTRE (C&LTC)

•The Centre has two main mandates: – Providing citizenship and leadership training. – Establishment and management of Man O’ War

Organizations.

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ACTIVITIES• The Centre partnered with the Gombe State Government

for the training and reorienting of over 350 dis-engaged political thugs, popularly known as ‘yan kalare, to be good citizens suitable for employment as health and environmental inspectors.

• The 350 youth are currently gainfully engaged.• engaged

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ACTIVITIES contd.SN PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

 2012 ( PLANNED TARGET)

2012 (ACTUAL AS AT DEC.)

1 Inculcating The Virtue Of Self-reliance and selfless service to the nation

255,000 266,840

2 Imbibe the concepts of good and responsible leadership as well as community development

555,850 468,855

3 Youth with market ready skills. 14,050 9,4904 Understand the unpleasant

consequences of belonging or patronizing cultism

7,200 4,800

5 Establish a platform for Man”o”War development

5,000 6,257

6 Understand various investment opportunity and determine to be productive and employer of Labor

255,000 266,840

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REPOSITIONING OF MAN ‘O’ WAR

• Establishment of a functional national command office with adequate staff , well equipped office accommodation and the purchase of a Peugeot 406 official vehicle.

• Held the first joint national meeting with all national officers, state commanders and state secretaries in attendance.

• Training programme held for Man ‘O’ War information technology state command officers in Abuja on the use of IT systems provided for each state command.

• Reintroduction of Man ‘O’ War in schools for Citizenship and Leadership education.

The Leadership o the Man O’ War Nigeria Voluntarily undertook the following:

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C&LTC PARTNERS• The C & LTC has recorded increased patronage from numerous

clients across the country in both the public and private sectors. Among them:

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SUCCESS

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SUCCESS OF THE MINISTRY AND ITS AGENCIES

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NYSC C&LTC

1 Skills Acquisition Programme of the Scheme has worked as Corps members embraced it . 

Leadership and life skill training activities in the seven (7) Units 

2 The NYSC MDGs War Against Poverty Programme has worked as it exposed and sensitized all Corps members to the need for self reliance through job creation. 

Sensitization programme properly executed 

3 Collaboration with stakeholders has worked especially in the area of electoral reforms/conduct of elections and Corps empowerment. 

Re-organization of Man O War Club and Associations was successfully executed 

4 Implementation of the approved expansion of the Administrative Structure of the Scheme has worked as it has helped to drive the policies of the Scheme thereby enabling it to cope with the dynamics of youth mobilization and management for national development and self-reliance.

Execution of treasury funded projects

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KEY CHALLENGES OF THE MINISTRY

• Non -Implementation of the National Youth Policy, especially with regard to the National Youth Development Council .

• The National Youth Policy provides that there will an inter ministerial Council to be called the National Youth Development Council under the chairmanship of the President. It will comprise all the Chief Executives of the core relevant Ministries, e.g Youth Development, Women Affairs, Education, Labour and productivity, Agriculture, Health and Trade and Investment. To serve as forum and clearing house on all youth policy matters of National interest.

• Inappropriate placement of Youth related projects/programme in other MDAs and inconsistency in government implementation policy

• Problems associated with land allocation within areas where centres are to be built as well as lack of appropriation for the running of the youth development centres and personnel.

• Insufficient and late release of funds.

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CHALLENGES OF NYSC

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CHALLENGES OF C&LTC• Insufficient and late release of fund• Lack of permanent office accommodation for the

Headquarters.• The Centre has only three (3) permanent Training Units in

Lagos, Plateau and Delta states. Others are operating on temporary sites

• There is a need for more working equipment and mobility item for movement of participants

• Construction of standard office accommodation for staff in the Training Units

• Reduction in the number of participants as a result of security challenges in the country .

• Staff training and exchange programmse with Outward Bound International has declined.

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RECOMMENDATIONS contd.

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RECOMMENDATIONS contd.

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EXPECTATIONS/DELIVERABLES FOR 2013

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Thank you!

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