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NFVCB's strategic blueprint for transforming Nigeria's film regulatory landscape — empowering industry, protecting communities, and promoting excellence.
New Direction in Film & Video Content
Significantly Reduce Objectionable Movies in the Market
Improve Standards of Professionalism in Film Production
Manage the Classification System to Time, Cost and Quality Standards
Enhance Confidence in NFVCB Classification Systems
Enhance Community Understanding of Classification Systems
Provide Access to Information on Roles, Responsibilities and Classification Decisions
Provide NFVCB Staff with Skills and Support to Maximise Their Contribution
Objective
Redressing the current situation where the content of movies are not encouraging, concentrating more on the promotion of negative stereotypes. Urgent need to focus more on themes and stories reflecting other positive aspects of Nigerian life.
Strategies
In concert with the NFC and industry groups, especially Guilds of Directors, Producers, and scriptwriters, evolve a new culture of thematic movies promoting Nigeria and other positive values.
Provide guidance and funding for script development based on identified themes.
Promote and drive professionalism in content development, focused on the image Nigeria project with relevant stakeholders.
Promote the project through special events and activities, as well as through the mass media.
Offer incentives and rewards to outstanding producers who best fulfill the objectives.
Objective
Ensure that all movies available in Nigeria go through NFVCB's censorship and classification guidelines, and reduce content that reinforces negative stereotypes of Nigerians.
Strategies
Refuse classification for movies that reinforce or project negative stereotypes about Nigeria and Nigerians.
Employ a sliding censorship fee system, charging lower fees for movies with defined advocacy themes, such as children's movies.
Be more proactive in censorship, and monitoring enforcement of classification rules.
Objective
Identify and address serious gaps in professionalism in all aspects of the Nigerian movie industry — script writing, production, marketing and distribution.
Strategies
Set defined standards for movie production in concert with NFC, and the various industry guilds.
New guideline which bans submission of movies by producers who are not members of MOPPICON, or guilds under it.
Organise training programmes focusing on new content development, aimed at institutionalising international best practices in film production.
Organise International conference on film censorship/classification: impact on society and development.
Objective
NFVCB is obliged to meet time standards for censorship and classification decisions. The cost of making classification decisions is recovered from clients and efficiency is subject to scrutiny.
Strategies
In cooperation with clients, streamline procedures to provide timely decisions within the legislative framework.
Ensure that clients receive value for money without compromising classification decisions.
Maintain high quality classification standards through effective knowledge management.
Launch new IT-based work flow process.
Involve Stakeholders in developing new censorship classification guidelines.
Objective
Address relationships with key government and industry stakeholders. Effectively and efficiently service expectations from government, media convergence and NFVCB's communication with other industry, consumer and classification bodies.
Strategies
Improve the working environment of the NFVCB — adequate infrastructure, logistics and human resources.
Provide briefing, policy and legislative services to the Government.
Improve the NFVCB relationships with existing and potential clients.
Establish the NFVCB Consultative forum based on the six geo-political zones, as well as a national consultative body.
Understand emerging product and technology to identify potential clients and industry, technology and communication trends.
Objective
Ensure that decisions of the Board reflect community standards, and that communities are aware of the NFVCB's role and the implications of its classification decisions.
Strategies
Expand zonal structure to six based on the geo-political zones; inaugurate the NFVCB zonal consultative forum.
Identify and develop avenues for dissemination of NFVCB information. Involve local media and schools, PTAs in communication of classification decisions.
Establish an informal community involvement in the preview of movies submitted.
Establish and communicate clearly the NFVCB service charter to all relevant stakeholders.
Objective
Ensure that NFVCB and support staff are appropriately resourced and have the information and support to perform their roles and optimise their contribution to the broader objectives of NFVCB.
Strategies
Develop and maintain practical information resources relevant and appropriate to external interested parties and internal users.
Establish more effective internal communication within NFVCB.
Establish arrangements for all NFVCB staff to have convenient access to information required in the course of their work.
Improve NFVCB handling of external enquiries.
Objective
Ensure that people requiring information relating to the activities or operation of NFVCB are able to access accurate information in a convenient, timely manner.
Strategies
Establish, as an integral part of working at NFVCB, an induction, training and orientation policy and process.
Organise training programmes in concert with the NFI, other agencies.
Establish a comprehensive and effective performance management system.
Establish appropriate arrangements for the timely recruitment of staff.
Maintain appropriate terms and conditions for the employment of NFVCB staff.