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about Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification Project

Mineral Sector Support for Economic
Diversification Project (MINDIVER)

Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification Project (MinDiver) is a World Bank Assisted project under the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development (MMSD). The overall objective of the MinDiver Project is to link with the Roadmap and enhance the mining sector’s contribution to the economy by strengthening key government institutions, improving information infrastructure and knowledge, and fostering domestic investment in the sector.

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The Mineral Sector Support for Economic Diversification Project (MINDIVER) is set up as a strategic reform project of the Federal Government of Nigeria, to be assisted by the World Bank with an international development assistance (IDA) credit of US$150m. The project benefits all states of the Federation and positively impacts the Nigerian economy, job creation through improved sector competitiveness

The project is designed to accelerate progress across each of the pillars established in the road-map for the Growth and Development of the Nigerian Mining Industry, and to ensure that the IDA credit is optimally utilized to help attain the set goals and objectives defined within the road-map.

Below is the high-level mapping of MinDiver project sub-components and strategic pillars of MMSD road-map

  1. Priority Minerals (Industrial minerals and steel sector development)
  • Enhancing value addition
  1. Institutions/ Governance (Organizational and functional capabilities of MMSD)
  • Strengthen Mining governance & Admin
  • Skill building for sector development
  1. Stakeholder engagement (Communities, State engagement)
  • Regional development of mining sector
  1. Operators (Attract mining majors and ASM integration)
  • Formalizing and regulating ASM
  • Advance proof of concept investments
  1. Geodata acquisition (Acquisition and storage of geoscience data)
  • Strengthen geological knowledge
  1. Enablers (Capability building, social/gender equity, financing and infrastructure)
  • Skill building for sector development
  • Environmental, Health & Social Performance
  • Access to finance and investment
  • Advance proof of concept investments

Goals

  1. To improve the attractiveness of the Nigerian Mining sector, as a driver for economic diversification, for long-term private sector investment in the exploration and production of minerals.
  2. To create a globally competitive sector capable of contributing to wealth creation, providing jobs and advancing our social and human security.

Objectives

The overall objective of the MinDiver Project is to link with the Roadmap and enhance the mining sector’s contribution to the economy by strengthening key government institutions, improving information infrastructure and knowledge, and fostering domestic investment in the sector. The Project consists of the following parts: 

Part A: Establishing a Strong Foundation for Mining Sector Development

  1. Carrying out of a program of activities designed to strengthen the MMSD’s capacity for governance and administration of the mining sector;
  2. Carrying out of a program of activities designed to strengthen the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency as well as geological knowledge and information infrastructure for the mining sector,
  3. Implementing a program of activities designed to strengthen the Recipient’s capacity for management of environmental, health and social impacts in the sector

Part B: Facilitating Downstream Sector Development and Enhancing Competitiveness

  1. Strengthening administration of the artisanal and small scale mining sub-sector,
  2. Implementing a program of activities designed to leverage the mineral sector for regional development
  3. Implementing a program of activities designed to enhance value addition to mineral products (including upstream development of industrial minerals and dimension stones domain) in the mining sector,
  4. Implementing a program of activities designed to advance proof-of-concept investments and to attract private sector investments

Part C: Project Management and Coordination

  1. Strengthening the capacity of the MMSD for implementation, supervision and management of the Project through the provision of goods, consulting services, non-consulting services, operating costs and training for the purpose.
  2. Supporting quality control of Project activities and outputs as well as monitoring and evaluation of Project outputs and results

Project Structure

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Project Timeline

2016

Beginning

The idea behind company formation originated in the mid-90s to Jacob William (Group President and CEO) while on a visit to Mega Shopping Centers in US and Europe, which offered things as diverse as baby clothes and dog food in the same shop. The convenience of driving to a single location and doing business formed the foundation for multiple services idea behind us.

2017-2019

Early Formative Years

We started its operations in 2002, by offering ‘Data Processing Solutions’. Later, Data Entry customers demanded to be provided with customer service, which led to the launch of ‘Call Center Operations’, as the second service. Further down the line, ‘Finance and Accounting Services’ was added to the line of services as existing clients for Data Entry and Customer Services wanted us to handle their account books as well. All initial service expansions were customer driven.

This year

The Growth Trajectory

Today, We and its associate companies have more than 2000 employees working across global delivery centers catering to the business needs of over 11190 customers across 221 countries.

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