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FG Begins NEEDS Implementation Assessment In Rivers
In a bid to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
targets in 2015, the Federal Government, says it has since deployed enumerators
to Rivers State to assess how far they
have gone in actualising the set goals of National Economic Empowerment
Development Strategy (NEEDS).
The Special Assistant to the Governor on MDGs, Mr Desire Bob
Manuel gave this hint last week while briefing newsmen in Port Harcourt.
Bob Manuel said the enumerators were saddled with the task
of assessing the progress of the National Empowerment Economic Development
Strategy (NEEDS) in the state.
The exercise commenced on Tuesday October 9, 2012, and is
expected to last for three days in all the 23 local governments of the State.
According to Bob-Manuel, the enumerators will also map out
the scale of practical interventions required to meet the MDGs, adding that,
there will be special attention to infrastructure, human resources and
financial requirements.
It was learnt that, the assessment will form the basis for
developing the nation’s specific strategies to meet the MDGs in 2015.
The governor’s aide also noted that, the NEEDS assessment
tools were fashioned to produce reasonable estimates of the expected take off
grant for the key sectors to hit the target in the next three years.
Such sectors, he said included Agriculture, Education,
Health, Water and Sanitation, saying that, the assessment would determine any
potential funding gap.
According to him, it will map out strategies to bridge such
gaps and as well select interventions that would enhance the efficiency and
effectiveness of services delivery system.
The Tide futher gathered that the Federal Government
sometime in May this year, deployed over 100 enumerators to the state on a
baseline facility inventory exercise targeted at stating the afore mentioned
sectors where the state needs serious interventions.
Meanwhile, the governor’s aide has appealed to all local
government chairmen to embrace the exercise and the need to provide a safe
landing ground for them (enumerators).
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