The NigerianGovernors’ Forum has pledged to work with the Ministry of Budget and NationalPlanning by providing the right institutional arrangements in all States tosupport the generation and management of geographic information. GovernorKayode Fayemi of Ekiti, who is the Chairman of the Forum, made the pledge whilereading the communiqué issued at the end of the forum’s meeting held Wednesdaynight in Abuja. Fayemi saidthe decision was to ensure that state governments had the right information inidentifying where people live and how critical services could be most equitablyand effectively allocated. He notedthat the governors at the meeting received a presentation from the Minister ofFinance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on the Geo-ReferencedInfrastructure and Demographic Data for Development GRID3 programme in Nigeria. He commendedthe minister for coordinating the GRID3 programme designed to strengthen theapplication of geospatial data for evidence-based decision making in thecountry.