Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi State has launched the distribution of the 377 Million Naira as Grants to 21 Communities benefiting from the Community and Social Development Project in the state.
Others to benefit from the intervention, a World Bank assisted project, is 20 Vulnerable Groups in various communities of the state.
Speaking at the occasion held at the Banquet Hall, Government House Bauchi, the Governor said already 100 million naira has been released as counterpart contribution for the implementation of the project.
The Governor pledged the commitment of his administration towards implementing numerous programmes in line with the cardinal objectives of good governance.
Governor Bala noted that to compliment the World Bank giant strides, the administration is making deliberate attempt to provide infrastructure to critical sectors of the economy to ensure conducive atmosphere for the growth of small businesses among others.
According to him, as a conscious effort to institutionalize sustainability plans, the project has provided 3 level initiative aimed at ensuring full ownership in line with Global best practice.
Governor Bala Mohammed added that the state government has entered into a strategic patnership with the World Bank to strengthen the capacity of rural communities and enjoined the beneficiaries of the micro grants to employ the ethics of sincere ownership and safeguard the unique investment for enhanced quality of life.
On his part, the State Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Dr Aminu Hassan Gamawa pointed out that, the Community and Social Development Project is one of the areas of collaboration between the state government and the World Bank to reduce poverty through community participation in service delivery.
Dr Aminu Gamawa said the presentation of the cheques to the communities is a tandem with the present administration's drive to reduce youth restiveness, unemployment, hunger and squalor by re-directing the scare resources for more productive economic gains.
The Budget and Economic Planning Commissioner added that the Ministry had maintained its open door policy for the purposes of interaction with Civil Society Organizations to engender patnership, collaboration and joint monitoring and evaluation of the priorities for the year 2020 fiscal year.
Earlier, the General Manager, Community and Social Development Project, Sadiq Mohammed explained that the grants is for the 2018/2019 for the execution of micro projects at the grassroots.
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