Governor Willie Obiano says the Community Social Development Agency
will augment State government’s efforts in rural transformation.
He stated this at the Governor’s Lodge Amawbia when he received
members of Board of the Agency led by its Chairman, Igwe Rowland
Odegbo.
The Governor who said that the State government will continue to
provide a veritable platform for the agency to achieve its aim,
stressed that funds given to it should be managed very well in line
with World Bank standards, after which a proper structure will be put in place for sustainability.
In his speech, the Commissioner for Budget, Economic Planning and Development Partners, Mr Mark Okoye who said that Anambra State was the first to pass the law in 2009, noted that the project became effective in
August 2018, while interventions have been advanced in about eighty
seven Communities, out of which thirty-seven projects have been
completed.
Mr Okoye pointed out that local governments where interventions had
been taken include Anambra East and West, Ogbaru, Ayamelum, Awka
North, Orumba North and South, saying that the purpose of the World
Bank Scheme is to craft agencies to do sustainable community driven projects.
Briefing the Governor on the activities of the Agency, its Board
Chairman, Igwe Odegbo said that the goal of the project is to increase
access of poor people to improved social and natural resources and
infrastructural services in a sustainable manner.
While saying that the project is in tandem with the Governor’s
Community choose your project initiative, Igwe Odegbo pointed out that
full implementation started in March 2019, as they have approved
thirty community development plans, ten group plans containing
eighty-six micro projects, with over five hundred total beneficiaries.
Community Social Development Programme is a pro-poor intervention
which aims at poverty reduction and empowerment of Communities.
The General Manager and Secretary of the board, Mr Chudi Mojekwu, Igwe
Charles Agbala, Comrade Samuel Egwuatu, among others, were part of the
delegation.
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