The World Bank assisted Community and Social Development Project-Additional financing aimed at empowering communities will wind-up on June thirtieth 2020.
The General Manager, Anambra state Community and Social Development Agency, Mr. Chudi Mojekwu announced this during a-three-day project implementation review and COVID-19 sensitization meeting organised by the agency for its benefiting communities across the twelve participating council areas at Awka.
The meeting, which attracted Community Project Management Committees, CPMCs Chairmen and Secretaries of various communities, Group Project Management Committee, GPMC, chairpersons, Presidents General, and facilitators of Vulnerable Groups, centred on projects disbursement, completion and functionality, environment and social safeguard issues as well as land documentation among others.
Mr. Mojekwu announced that within a year and six months
the project lasted in the state, they were able to implement one hundred and eighty-two micro projects in fifty-three communities with one hundred and fifty fully completed while others are at various stages of completion.
While hinting that there are signs that the project may be extended, Mr. Mojekwu applauded Governor Wille Obiano and other relevant ministries for their unflinching support promising to do more.
Interacting with CPMC members, on the project implementation, the Operation Manager, Mrs. Uche Nwizugbo noted that the review meeting was aimed at appraising all issues to avoid having
abandoned projects before the project finally winds up next month.
Mr. Nwizugbo, who charged them to finalize everything about implementation before fifteenth June, made it clear that all benefiting communities have been fully funded.
Also speaking the Project Officer, Information, Education and Training, Mr. Nnamdi Onuzulike, rated very high the responsiveness of the benefiting communities in the execution of the vital projects they choose by themselves through strict adherence to the laydown rules and regulations guiding the project.
In their separate testimonies, some of the participants, including Ozo Albert Ibe, Ugbene CPMC chairman, Awka North Council Area and Lady Ngozi Emencheta, Treasurer, Nsugbe CPMC, Anambra East Council Area, described the project as a bottom top approach to development and called for its sustainability and the attraction of similar projects.
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