Nigeria Vision 20: 2020.

This Nigeria Vision 20: 2020 (NV20:2020) is a national cross-sectoral policy document. Its Vision Statement is: by 2020, Nigeria will have a large, strong diversified, sustainable and competitive economy that effectively harnesses the talents and energies of its people and responsibly exploits its natural endowments to guarantee a high standard of living and quality of life to its citizens. It focuses on two broad objectives: optimizing human and natural resources to achieve rapid economic growth, and translating that growth into equitable social development for all citizens.
The NV20:2020 seeks to improve the well-being and productivity of Nigerians. The main goal of NV20:2020 is to improve the well-being of Nigerians. In this direction, the Vision aims to reduce the problems of hunger, poverty, poor healthcare, inadequate housing, low quality human capital, gender imbalance, low productivity and poor basic facilities by 2020.
In terms of guaranteeing food security, NV20:2020 will adopt supporting initiatives to protect long-term use of farmlands and put in place clear property rights. NV20:2020 will ensure sustainable access to portable water and basic sanitation. This will involve developing unified programmes and manuals of management, operation and maintenance for urban, small town and rural water and sanitation services.
The NV20:2020 seeks to preserve the environment for sustainable socio-economic development. Emphasis will be placed on conservation of the environment, preventing loss of bio-diversity, restoring degraded areas and protecting ecologically sensitive sites and reducing impact of climate change on socio-economic development. It plans to implement programmes to control environmental degradation and pollution and promote sustainable use and conservation of natural resources.
NV20:2020 seeks to reduce poverty through the design and implementation of people-centred poverty alleviation programmes and policies. The Vision will adopt a decentralised approach to the development and implementation of pro-poor programmes. A scheme will be developed for monitoring, evaluating and cost-benefit appraisals of all poverty reduction programmes. The Vision also promotes respect for all irrespective of race, class, disability or gender. The strategy for promoting gender equality and women empowerment will be systematic inclusion of all gender in every aspects of national life.
The NV20:2020 supports small scale and rural farmers while sustaining the renewed national focus on commercial agriculture. It aims to transform agriculture to a sustainable profitable sector with focus on increasing the yield/productivity of agricultural produce, production of the required raw materials and export of processed agricultural products. In this connection, the Land Use Act of 1978 will be amended in a way that addresses its current limitations. It plans to attract large scale investments for mechanised production/processing of agricultural produce in which Nigeria has comparative advantage (e.g. tubers, cereals, oil palm, cocoa) as well as agricultural produce that serve as inputs to processing plants (e.g. citrus fruits, pineapple). It will also promotes to improve access to micro-credit, and support agricultural research and promote greater dissemination/adoption of appropriate agricultural technologies.
In addition, NV20:2020 promotes to take measures to combat desertification and mitigate impacts of droughts, reduce the occurrence and impact of environmental hazards and disasters.