institutions for monitoring and evaluation, namely; the National Planning Commission charged with the overall monitoring and evaluation of national projects and programmes; the resident Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of the NEPAD Nigeria Office, and the APRM Department. This arrangement can lead to conflicts and duplication of functions which need to be carefully managed. v. Legislative Process: The implementation of NPoA is hampered by slow process of domestication inevitable in the procedural stages of the legislative processes in a federal state. Consequently, many protocols and treaties bearing on NPoA projects signed by Nigeria are yet to be ratified, domesticated and implemented by both the federal and state legislatures. 1.3 Measures for Overcoming the Challenges 1.3.1 In spite of these constraints, the Nigerian Government has made important strides in implementing the APRM-NPoA Programme, especially the mainstreaming of the National Programme of Action into the national planning and budgetary processes and domestication of the NPoA in the Federal and States of the Federation. Many of the initial problems that were encountered have been overcome through the establishment of replication of Management structures at the Federal level and their replication at the state level, especially the creation of Focal Point Officers at the Federal and State Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Furthermore, an aggressive capacity building programme that was put in place has bridged the monitoring and evaluation gaps. In fact, manuals containing guidelines on the 12