7 More Council Areas To Benefit From World Bank CSDP Additional Financing In Anambra

BY SUNNY A. DAVID / AWKA

Seven More Council Areas in Anambra state are to benefit from the World Bank Community and Social Development Project, CSDP-Additional Financing

The coordination office of the Community and Social Development Agency which announced this said the
new Local Government Areas are Dunukofia, Oyi, Ogbaru, Orumba South, Idemili North, Ihiala, and Anaocha council areas.

The Community and Social Development Agency, CSDA, which is saddled with the responsibility of empowering communities, has a total of twelve council areas in Anambra state benefiting from its program.

Announcing the seven new benefiting council areas during a one-day sensitization meeting of critical community stakeholders held at Dunukofia Local Government Headquarters hall, the General Manager, Anambra state Community and Social Development Agency, Mr. Chudi Muojekwu, noted that out of the seven new council area, only six had enacted the local government review committee by-law to empower the Agency to intervene in their communities.

Mr. Muojekwu, who stated that this year was going to witness intensive implementation activities because they had little time to spend on the project, noted that the project was hundred percent community driven.

The Operations Manager, Mrs. Uche Nwaizugbo, who took participants on the plans targeting the communities like Community Development Plan, CDP, for the entire community project, Group Development Plan, CDP, for the vulnerable groups and Community Response Plan, CRP, for flood affected local government areas, warned that each plan should have common interest, norms and values and should not exceed ten million naira project.

The Project Officer, Gender and Vulnerable, Miss Chinyere Onalu, while appealing to stakeholders to assist the Agency in reaching out to the target beneficiaries, announced that for any vulnerable group to be eligible to benefit, it must be dully registered at the local government headquarters.

One of the participants and President General of Ukpo community, Mr. Vincent Oyiliagu, while describing the project as a welcome development, assured that he would convene a meeting of his community’s stakeholders to ensure that the target beneficiaries were captured.

The critical stakeholders meeting climaxed with a question and answer session.