TABAC | RESTRUCTURING AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (RDP)
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RESTRUCTURING AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (RDP)

For every entity and body corporate, Restructuring is a necessary continuous exercise required to take stock of available resources and determine their optimal deployment, for comparative advantage in the larger environment. Knowledge, Information and Data is key to the restructuring process. This matrix empowers the people who execute and those who benefit from the restructuring process. Restructuring is the surest and most expedient way to achieve an ideal and efficient society in the ever changing world.
Through the years TABAC has developed the culture of an incubator and facilitator of dialogue on novel ideas and methodologies for the restructuring process. Our Socio-Economic Analysis dataBase (SEABASE) has served us well as a module and tool for simulating restructuring scenarios. We have also published and presented papers at various fora covering a wide range of topics within the restructuring sphere. We are very adept at organizing discourses, workshops and conferences to drill down on development related policy issues.
TABAC articulated Restructuring proposals in the perestroika era. We made inputs into the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) that gained currency in Nigeria in the eighties. Specifically, we presented proposals to leverage the nation’s rural resources to gain comparative advantage. This exercise would still be fashionable today as States and local government units in the Nigerian federation need and seek to improve their respective Internally Generated Revenues.
Today’s global economy has shifted paradigms and places a different kind of burden on Nigeria and Africa. The over dependence and alleged mismanagement of the crude oil resource has taken its toll and finally come to an end. It’s time to restructure our economy to align with our resource endowments and the current geo-politics. Capacity building, of the massive youth population of Nigeria and Africa at large, must be pursued urgently to redress social anomalies that could prove explosive, if not addressed. Agribusiness must take centre stage. And there needs to be more intra-Africa trade activities to strengthen the continental economy and provide it with some measure of independence. Indeed Africa must now arise from slumber, to fulfill its destiny to nourish the world. TABAC’s 40-year footprint as a restructuring agent would serve the relevant multilateral agencies, national and sub national governments very well. We also offer Social Engineering, Publicist and Copywriting services.

Projects

TABAC PUBLICATIONS

TABAC has published and presented papers delivered at various fora covering a wide range of subject matters within the Group’s areas of interest. Some unpublished articles can be commissioned. See here the full list of Group Publications and Articles by Shex Ladipo. (1978-2023).

TABAC SEABASE

US-Africa Trade Opportunities

We participated in a United States Information Agency (USIA) project held in the United States, with select Young African Leaders from 25 African countries. The project emphasized entrepreneurship development and promotion of intra-Africa trade relations. The project provided us with a rare insight and access to vast resources in SME and entrepreneurship development. This included a study engagement with the Small Business Administration (SBA, Wash. DC) and many institutions and Small/Medium sized businesses in various States of the US.(1989). Working with colleagues from the other African countries, we also used the opportunity to develop a template for intra-Africa trade relations”(1989).

Development Workshops

We organized a National development workshop on “Funding Education in Nigeria : The need and possibilities for Public-Private Partnership”. We initiated the project in collaboration with the Lagos State University (LASU) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The workshop was hosted at the Administrative Staff College of Nigerian (ASCON), Badagry, Lagos. Papers were presented by captains of industry, leading educationists and financial experts. A very foresighted keynote address was presented by Chief M. K. O. Abiola. (1992)

USIA-IVP

Youth Perspective on Restructuring

Restructuring Proposals

Integrated Rural Development

Funding Education in Nigeria