The Oxfam has organized a two Day participatory Budget preparation and Community Development plan workshop for Directors, Secretaries, and the Chairman of the Michika Local government Executive arm in Adamawa state, North East Nigeria.
The training which is jointly in collaboration with OXFAM and Nigeria government is aimed to enhance social cohesion through Community Development Planning on monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the council.
Michika Local government of Adamawa state is one of the seven local governments dealt with by by Boko Haram insurgents during their sway in the state in 2013.
The German government through its Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development is in partnership with the Christian Rural and Urban development Association of Nigeria and the Centre for Public Education and Mobilization for Development in Nigeria.
This reason for this workshop is to enhance the capacity of these duty-bearers to translate the Community Development Planing into actionable budgets.
For his part, the Project Coordinator Oxfam, Enoch Bamaiyi gave an overview on how the project will be implemented, and its benefits to the people.
He explains that Oxfam aims to strengthen social cohesion through capacity building of stakeholders on inclusive planning, implementation, and monitoring of community development plans.
He added that the project targets over one thousand, two hundred and eighty persons across the sixteen wards of Michika Local Government Area with the final beneficiaries being an estimated two hundred and thirty-nine thousand, four hundred persons.
Enoch further said the project will leverage the citizens’ engagement and participatory planning policy and convert the negative experiences and displacement to gains in terms of social and economic developments that will mutually benefit the host communities, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons.
In his remark, Project officer Oxfam Samuel Lashon said the implementation of the project in Michika is due to presence of Citizen Engagement and Participatory Planning Policy which was launched in June last year.
He attributed the failure of governance at local government level to poverty, conflict and insecurity.He noted that the project is geared towards institutional strengthening of local government structure including leadership, planning and budgeting departments
‘To enhance social cohesion through Community Development Planning (CDP), we recently conducted a capacity-building workshop for senior officers of Michika Local Government Council, including directors, the secretary, and the leader of the legislative arm’
The Executive Chairman, Michika LGC, Honorable Amos Drambi, attended the workshop and affirmed the local government’s commitment to implementing the plan.
Some of the participants include the Council Leader of Michika, LG Honourable Mathias Tumba. He said that the local government’s commitment to implementing the plan.
Practical sessions were incorporated, allowing all participants to develop budgets for each sector based on the Community Development Planing.
Adamawa State Government assured development partners of protection of every project executed through Monitoring and Evaluation Technology known as ‘Citizen Eye and Ear Project’ put in place.
SPEAKERS
Project Coordinator Oxfam Enoch Bamaiyi
Council Leader of Michika LG Honorable Mathias Tumba
Executive Chairman, Michika LGC, Honourable Amos Drambi,
Project Officer Oxfam Samuel Lashon
