Eze Onyekpere Esq agencies for each task and how the request for funds will be made to the legislature and the donor agencies. The task allocations will depend on the mandate of each agency but with overall responsibility resting on the EMB. There will be need for human resources in the right quantity and quality(capacity building comes in here). Capacity building for security agencies may focus on the qualities required during the electoral process which include alertness, approachability, neutrality and impartiality, professionalism, fairness, and issues around the control of the use of force, reporting, collaboration with other agencies 4 . Financial resources, information, technological and material resources will also be required for the proper running of the electoral process. Technological and material resources will include vehicles, arms and ammunition, gadgets and equipments that facilitate the field and office work. Even though the task of organizing elections fall within the mandate of the EMB, the need for inter-agency collaboration becomes imperative because of the multifaceted nature of activities around election security. The agencies that need to collaborate will include INEC, the Police, State Security Service, Immigration, Civil Defence, NYSC, Prisons, the Army, Air Force and Navy, Ministry of Information and its affiliate departments and agencies, etc. 4 Guide for the Training of Monitors of Election Security Officers on Election Duty for the 2011 Elections produced by the National Human Rights Commission. 96 ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING Election Security Finance The role of financing and the budget will be to streamline the demands and make them realistic and actionable for the delivery of the required services. Definitely, resources are scarce against the needs of various government agencies. It is possible that the envelope for electoral security may not meet all the initial demands. Therefore, to make maximum use of available resources and to work within the template of aggregate fiscal discipline while introducing allocative and operational efficiencies, the collaborating agencies should consider an inter-agency security strategy using the following steps: l Articulating security goals and objectives against the background of the overall goal of credible election; l Identifying previous initiatives, the gaps and challenges arising from their implementation; identifying best practices from previous experiences and defining their replication methodologies; l Identifying, prioritising and documenting the key initiatives( projects and programmes) that will be embarked upon to achieve the objective of secured elections; l Costing the identified key initiatives in a clear and transparent manner; l Phasing implementation of the identified initiatives over the requisite electoral period; ELECTION SECURITY IN NIGERIA: MATTERS ARISING 97