Nigeria has been granted full membership in the Total Official Support for Sustainable Development Goals (TOSSD), marking a major milestone in the country’s commitment to advancing global sustainable development efforts.
The Director-General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps (NTAC), Dr Yusuf Yakub, disclosed this in a telephone interview while attending the TOSSD General Assembly Meeting in Madrid, Spain.
TOSSD, headquartered in Paris, France, is a multilateral development cooperation framework and statistical system that tracks international resource flows supporting sustainable development. It covers official development finance, private investments mobilised through official support, and domestic contributions to global public goods such as pandemic preparedness.
Yakub said Nigeria had been an observer member of TOSSD since 2017 but had now secured a permanent seat after an elaborate presentation of the Technical Aid Corps’ (TAC) 38-year record of international engagement before representatives of 28 European Union member states.
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“Nigeria was then given a membership seat and was also adopted into the Steering Committee of TOSSD. Nigeria is now accepted as a full-time member,” he said.
He emphasised that Nigeria’s admission into the TOSSD Steering Committee underscored the country’s long-standing contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the TAC scheme, which deploys Nigerian professionals to assist countries in need across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
Yakub described the development as a recognition of Nigeria’s role as a provider of sustainable development support worldwide.
Representatives from 28 member states of the EU, including France, Greece, Norway, and Qatar, as well as the Organisation of American States, attended the General Assembly Meeting.
