Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus, Nigeria CARES, Programme will fully kick off in Anambra State on the first of next Month.

The two-year programme, being executed by Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, World Bank- assisted is geared towards expanding access to livelihood support, food security services and grants for poor and vulnerable households and firms.

Following this development, a-three-day sensitization workshop on Nigeria CARES programme result Area one, organized by the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, for its Board of Directors, aimed at exposing them to the workings of the programme for effective service delivery has commenced in Awka.

Ebele Ezeh reports that while declaring the workshop open, the chairman of the Board, Igwe Roland Odegbo of Nteje said the workshop targets to equipping members of the Board with the requirements of the programme as government has high expectations from it.

Igwe Odegbo, while reminding them of their functions of providing overall policy guidance to the management and staff of  Community and Social Development Agency as well as reviewing and approving the annual work plans and budgets among others, promised the management and staff of the agency, maximum security as they move around the state, discharging their duties.

Presenting a paper titled, “Nigeria CARES Programme Result Area one”, the General Manager, Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, Mr Chudi Mojekwu announced that the state will be leveraging on twenty million dollars from the programme designed to be executed by five agencies in the state including theirs.

 

According to Mr. Mojekwu, Nigeria CARES programme, which has four development objectives and Result Areas, will have their agency concentrate on result area one, which covers four sectors of Health, Education, Water sanitation and Nutrition.

While emphasizing that nutrition sector targets under five years old, Mr. Mojekwu declared that they will adopt Rapid Result Approach, which is a result-focused learning process that is aimed at jump-starting major organizational change efforts and enhancing implementation capacity.

A member of the Board, who is also the State Chairman, National Youth Council of Nigeria, Mr Samuel Egwuatu unveiled that through Nigeria CARES programme, youths, who are economically hit by the devastating effects of COVID-19, will be receiving monthly stipend from the menial jobs approved for them.

Mr Egwuatu called on youths of Anambra State extraction to take advantage of the programme to better their lives and shun acts capable of marring their future.

The workshop, which had in attendance, eleven of the thirteen members of the Board, featured a question and answer session.

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