v. regular consultative meetings among the established structures for the implementation of NPoA at the Federal and State levels; vi. preparation for the 2nd Country Self-Assessment review; vii. preparation for the production of the third Progress Report on the Implementation of the National Programme of Action. 2.0 Methodology 2.1 This Second Progress Report was prepared following a series of activities embarked upon by NEPAD Nigeria, which started with the production of Questionnaires for both State and Local Governments and FMDAs lead implementing Agencies for monitoring and evaluation of NPoA implementation. 2.2 This was followed by a stock-taking phase, APRM Desk Officers in NEPAD Nigeria, by letter Ref. No. NEPAD/APRM/RNP/2011 were directed to visit the thirty-six (36) states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as well as the Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (FMDAs) designated as lead NPoA implementing Agencies to collect their 2011 budgets and implementation Reports. The officers were further directed to track NPoA projects in the various budgets collected and to ascertain the level of financial commitment therein. Sixty-seven (67) out of seventy-five (75) responded favourably from the states and local governments and sixty (60) out of seventy one (71) responded favourably to the request from FMDAs. Additional data were thereafter from the States, Local Governments and FMDAs. 15