Traditional Rulers and Presidents General of all the communities in Anambra North Senatorial District have been sensitized on how to cushion the effects of COVID-19 in their various communities.
The program, powered by the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, CSDA, in collaboration with the World Bank under COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Program for Results, NIGERIA CARES, is targeting increased social transfers, basic services and livelihood support to poor and vulnerable households.
The sensitization workshop, aimed at alleviating the poverty posed by COVID-19 on the poor and vulnerable, will cut across the three senatorial districts.
Declaring the workshop open, the Board Chairman of Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, Igwe Roland Odegbo of Nteje announced that the World Bank released twenty million dollars for the program, which cut across ASBA, FADAMA and CASH TRANSFER among others.
Igwe Odegbo stated that as community leaders, they are to access the money for the targeted beneficiaries noting that the workshop aimed at educating them on the process through which they can easily access the fund for the poorest of the poor.
He applauded Governor Willie Obiano for initiating the agency through which lives are being touched even as he charged participants to ensure that their subjects keep all COVID-19 protocols by NCDC.
The General Manager of CSDA, Mr. Chudi Mojekwu said the agency during the CSDP achieved ninety-nine percent of the two hundred and fifty projects chosen by the selected communities.
Mr. Mojekwu maintained that the short term emergency programm has to do with the provision of basic services together with implementing livelihood grant to unemployed and unskilled poor people for them to earn a living.
In his speech, the Coordinator, State Operating Coordinating Unit, Engineer Bede Okoli revealed that all the activities carried out during the Social Register Program was done according to the directives of the World Bank in targeting the poor and vulnerable selected from benefiting council areas.
Appreciating the CSDA and state government, Igwe Beneth Emeka of Umueri, and his Ukwala counterpart, Igwe Joseph Ajudo described the programm as a welcome development noting that every traditional ruler must be aware of any project being cited in his community.
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