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Guildelines for the Safe Management of Healthcare Waste in Sierra leone

Ministry of Health and Sanitations AIDS Response Group

This is a practical guide that addresses the choice of a treatment and disposal option for wastes from healthcare facilities, in order to prevent negative healthcare impacts on staff, patients, public and environment.

Sierra Leone 2003 Health

Wages and Compensation Commission Act, 2023

Labour and Social Security

This is an Act that provides for the establishment of the wages and compensation to be responsible for determining wages and compensation for public sector employees to harmonise the public sector pay system to reflect equity and merit.

Sierra Leone 2023 Labour

Nigerian Payments System Risk and Information Security Management Framework

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

This guide is designed to facilitate the effective management of risks associated with the Nigerian payments system. The objectives include identifying and addressing the main sources of systemic risks and ensuring effective risk management procedures in the payment system.

Nigeria 2022 Finance

Monetary, Credit, Foreign Trade and Exchange Policy Guidelines for 2002/3

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

This policy document specifies the CBN’s monetary, credit, foreign trade and exchange policy guidelines for the fiscal year 2002/2003. The policies were designed to align with the Federal Government’s Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF).

Nigeria 2002 Finance

Receipt of Diaspora Remittances: Additional Operational Guidelines

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

This additional guideline mandates International Money Transfer Organizations operating in Nigeria to pay out remittances as received in foreign currency to beneficiaries to ensure transparency in remittance inflows.

Nigeria 2020 Finance

Regulatory Framework for Non-Bank Acquiring in Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

The purpose of this framework is to clarify Non-Bank Acquiring as a regulated service in Nigeria and to establish the minimum standards and requirements for the operations of Non-Bank Acquiring in Nigeria.

Nigeria 2021 Finance

Guidelines on Operations of Electronic Payment Channels in Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

These guidelines update the 2016 Guidelines on Operations of Electronic Payment Channels in Nigeria. It covers electronic payments such as standards on ATM technology and specification and point-of-sale card technology.

Nigeria 2021 Finance

Supervisory Framework for Payment Service Banks

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

This framework states the regulations for the operations of Payment Service Banks. The objective of the guide is to ensure transparency in their operations as well as ensuring adequate customer protection. The framework emphasizes corporate governance, risks management, and safety of funds to the consumers of the Payment Service Banks’ products.

Nigeria 2021 Finance

Other Financial Institutions Credit Risk Management Guidelines

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

These guidelines by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) are directed to all other financial institutions to have customers’ accounts linked with the customer’s Bank Verification Number and Tax Identification Number. The main objective of the guide is to strengthen credit risk management in the financial sector.

Nigeria 2022 Finance

Guidelines for Credit Guarantee Companies in Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

These guidelines outline the minimum capital requirement for operating a credit guarantee company; the corporate governance requirements; and other prudential requirements for credit guarantee companies in Nigeria. By providing these guidelines, the CBN hopes to reduce the barriers to credit to SMEs, e.g., collateral constraints.

Nigeria 2022 Finance

Operational Guidelines for Open Banking in Nigeria

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

Open banking is a system of customer data sharing across banking and payment systems with the permission of customers. The objectives of these guidelines include: to improve security in the open banking system; to increase public access to banking and financial services; to improve customer experience in banking and financial services; and to increase efficiency in financial transactions. The guidelines outline the responsibilities of various stakeholders (e.g., customers and banks), data management procedures and rules on consent management, guidelines on consent management, and data management procedures.

Nigeria 2022 Finance

National Health Insurance Authority Act 2022

Ministry of Health, Nigeria

This Act repeals the National Health Insurance Scheme Act, Cap. N42, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 and enacts the National Health Insurance Authority Act to ensure effective implementation of a national health insurance policy that ensures the attainment of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.

Nigeria 2022 Health

Guidelines on Regulatory Capital

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

These guidelines on regulatory capital outline the criteria that banks’ capital instruments must satisfy based on the Basel III standards. It also provides the requirements for banks operating in Nigeria in relation to minimum regulatory capital, adjustments to the components of regulatory capital, transitional arrangements, disclosure requirements and the additional capital buffers above the minimum requirements.

Nigeria 2021 Finance

Guidelines on Leverage Ratio (LeR)

Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria

These guidelines specify the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) requirements for the Leverage Ratio (LeR) and the public disclosure procedures for all licensed commercial, merchant, and non-interest banks in Nigeria.

Nigeria 2021 Finance

Guidelines on Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR)

Central Bank of Nigeria

These Guidelines aim to set out the minimum requirements for Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) for reporting institutions in the Nigerian banking sector. The LCR aims to improve the short-term resilience of the liquidity risk profile of reporting institutions.

Nigeria 2021 Finance