A-one-day stakeholders workshop on the review of Draft National Community Driven Development-Policy, organised by Anambra state Community and Social Development Agency has ended in Awka.
The workshop, aimed at making economic development and poverty reduction efforts more effective, will also reduce ignorance and diseases in all poor communities in Nigeria among numerous others.
Community Driven Development- Policy, CDD Policy, is a framework to guide government’s support for, and engagement with communities in the implementation of CDD-P in Nigeria to establish a deeply-rooted, self-sustaining development process based on popular and inclusive participation, beginning from the grass-root and spreading, thereafter, to the wider economy in Nigeria.
The policy, aims to achieve this goal by providing guidelines on the roles and responsibilities of the federal, state and local governments, Civil Society Organisations, communities and other stakeholders in promoting sustainable rural development and effective coordination and implementation of CCD in Nigeria.
Declaring the workshop open, the General Manager, Anambra state Community and Social Development Agency, Mr. Chudi Mojekwu, applauded Governor Willie Obiano for keying into the programmes, which enabled Anambra state to benefit from the project which he described as laudable.
Mr. Mojekwu revealed that through the project, Anambra State added to its existing infrastructure, two hundred micro projects scatted across fifty-three communities within the twelve benefiting council areas.
The lead facilitator of the workshop, Prince Chris Azor described CDD-P as one of the key dividends of the Community and Social Development Project-additional financing.
Prince Azor, who noted that the participants were chosen out of relevance, capacity and track record, charged them as true patriots, to give the assignment the seriousness it deserves, for the benefit of their communities, Anambra state and Nigeria at large.
In their separate speeches, some of the participants, including the State Director, National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mr. Charles Nwoji and the Director, News and Current Affairs Department of the ABS, Mr.
Gab Okpalaeze, said they embarked on the upward review of the CDD-P to make it more attractive to governments at all levels for overall development.
The workshop, was held under street observance of prevention protocols by the WHO.
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