Madueke Advocates Stronger Stakeholder Coordination For Ease of Business, Infrastructure Delivery

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The Company Secretary of leading engineering construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria PLC, Mrs Cecilia Ekanem Madueke has canvassed an ecosystem-wide approach built on early stakeholder alignment, robust community engagement, proactive risk management and stronger coordination among all levels of government and the private sector as sine qua non for improving the ease of doing business and providing infrastructure efficiently.

She spoke at the just ended two-day Summit organised by Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association, NECA themed Leveraging Reforms and ESG for Enterprise Competitiveness and Inclusive National Growth. The event brought together brought together, employers, policymakers, business leaders and industry experts to examine how regulatory reforms and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles can strengthen Nigeria’s business environment.

As a discussant during Plenary 4 on the second day of the summit, Madueke, who spoke on Enhancing Ease of Doing Business and Addressing Regulatory Overlap: Deepening Private Sector Collaboration for Sustained Outcomes, highlighted the need for stronger stakeholder coordination and early risk identification to improve the investment climate and ensure the successful delivery of infrastructure projects.

Responding to a question on the importance of redesigning regulatory processes to improve predictability for major infrastructure investors, Madueke noted that infrastructure delivery depends on managing a complex web of stakeholders whose interests and responsibilities intersect across different levels of government and society.

We have the national, the sub-national and the local levels. We are dealing with different stakeholders, and it is a complex ecosystem,” she said. “It is a very delicate task to…