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Rivers Group Releases 2014 Business Plan
Rivers State Partners for Sustainable Development (RSPSD) has unveiled its business plan for 2014. The plan was disclosed to members during its 2014 first quarterly meeting held last week in Port Harcourt.
RSPSD, founded about four years ago and being driven at the moment by the Rivers State Sustainable Development Authority (RSSDA) is a partnership platform for stakeholders involved in development activities in Rivers State.
According to the Head of Secretariat (HOS) RSPSD, Mr. Dienye Pepple, the business plan which involves five key aspects would need a total budget of N65 million to carry out. The first of the plan is the acquisition, warehousing and analysis of socio-economic and other development data. This, Pepple said, would lead to the availability of Development data repository that would be accessible to all members on the platform.
Other plans include project harmonisation/joint programming, platform co-ordination that will see new partners engaged, on-boarded and providing feedback, development communication to ensure adequate publicity of RSPSD to attract membership and Secretariat Administration to ensure effective and efficient service delivery.
Members agreed that the plan was suitable and worthy of implementation and a committee of volunteers was formed to further explore ways of implementing the business plan.
Speaking earlier during his opening remarks, the chairman RSPSD management committee, Mr. Noble Pepple said that the establishment of the platform was necessitated by the adverse effects of uncoordinated development initiatives in the state.
The chairman who is also the Executive Director of RSSDA stated that since the official launch of the platform in June last year, 44 members have been on-boarded and the time was ripe to start pursuing some of the core objectives of the platform.
The objectives he said, are serving as the databank for all development activities in the state, to ensure dissemination of development information to partners, facilitate consultations and exchanges towards the development of the state.
Others include: to facilitate the alignment of processes towards harmonisation of partners’ projects/programmes, leverage development funds from donor agencies for the development of the state.
Pepple noted that every sector was represented at the meeting and that if they failed to get it right, they would have themselves to blame.
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