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Nigeria rarely lacks plans. It lacks the institutions to carry them through. These pieces examine why policy intent and delivery diverge, and what accountability, institutional design and execution discipline it takes to close the gap. They inform Carthena's institutional strengthening work with public institutions.

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Carthena Advisory cover: Nigeria does not have a planning problem, it has a strategy problem.
Strategy & Planning · 6 June 2026

Nigeria does not have a planning problem. It has a strategy problem.

Carthena Insights: Why Accountability in Nigeria’s Governance Matters Now More Than Ever. Accountability is not a governance aspiration in Nigeria - it is the defining structural deficit.
Governance & Public Sector · 21 July 2023

Why Accountability in Nigeria’s Governance Matters Now More Than Ever

Carthena Insights: How to Craft Public Policies That Deliver Real Impact in Governance. The gap between policy design and policy impact in Nigeria is not a technical failure - it is a process failure.
Governance & Public Sector · 8 July 2023

How to Craft Public Policies That Deliver Real Impact in Governance

Carthena Insights: Institutional Strengthening as the Key to Reviving Nigeria’s Economy. Nigeria's economic challenges are not primarily a resource problem or a policy problem - they are an institutional problem.
Governance & Public Sector · 12 May 2023

Institutional Strengthening as the Key to Reviving Nigeria’s Economy

Carthena Insights: How Strong Institutions Can Drive Nigeria’s Economic Recovery. Economic recovery in Nigeria will not be delivered by any single policy intervention or administration.
Governance & Public Sector · 8 January 2020

How Strong Institutions Can Drive Nigeria’s Economic Recovery

The Carthena Read Issue 3 cover: Nigeria mistakes motion for progress. Three stats: $11.5B announced, $4B arrived, 47 memoranda signed at one summit in two days.
Governance & Public Sector · 25 July 2026

Nigeria's investment gap is a knowledge problem, not an execution problem

Carthena Insights: The urgent case for fiscal policy reforms in Nigeria's economic agenda. External debt $41.7bn, inflation 22.41%, infrastructure stock 25% of GDP against an 80% target.
Fiscal & Economic Policy · 10 July 2023

The Urgent Case for Fiscal Policy Reforms in Nigeria’s Economic Agenda

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