POLICY AND STRATEGY HOW TO GUIDE 3: PREPARING A MEDIUM-TERM SECTOR STRATEGY

Abstract

Preparing a Medium-Term Sector Strategy is one of a series of guides produced to facilitate development in the states in Nigeria. This guide is a revision of the State Partnership for Accountability, Responsiveness and Capability (SPARC) Guide to Developing Medium-Term Sector Strategies5 and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) How to Prepare a Medium-Term Sector Strategy Guide. Preparing a Medium-Term Sector Strategy is one of the series of Policy and Strategy Guides6 and is a step-by step guide to developing and agreeing a Medium-Term Sector Strategy (MTSS). It starts by explaining why MTSSs are important and then takes the reader through the three preparation stages. It then includes an additional stage that sets out an approach for revising/rolling over the MTSS. Practical tools are provided to help officers to develop an MTSS from scratch, or to review an existing strategy.