The Commissioner for Economic Planning, Budget and Development Partners, Mr. Mark Okoye, says his ministry has always promote participatory approaches to governance as part of the policy thrust and paradigm shifts championed by Governor Willie Obiano’s administration.
Mr. Okoye stated this during a public presentation of achievements, organized by the Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, CSDA, in Awka.
While describing the CSDA as the most successful and popular development intervention within the oversight of his ministry, Mr. Okoye disclosed that the agency has the requisite capacity for community and social development in all their ramification, hence the reason why it has been positioned to play major roles in the implementation of the upcoming Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme for Results, NG-CARES.
The board chairman, Anambra State Community and Social Development Agency, Igwe Roland Odegbo of Nteje, who gave an overview of the agency, applauded Governor Obiano for availing the state the opportunity to join.
Igwe Odegbo explain that based on the stake’s poverty map, the project intervened with focus on the poorest of the poor in twelve council areas with micro projects spread across seven sectors.
He revealed that communities and groups interventions benefited over two point five million people directly and indirectly while eighty-one permanent jobs and livelihoods were created in addition to six hundred direct temporary jobs and three thousand indirect temporary jobs in the course of implementation.
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