‘World Bank Spent N90bn On Community Projects In 11 Years’

The Community and Social Development Project (CSDP), an initiative of the Federal Government with support from the World Bank, spent N90billion on community projects in 30 states from 2009 to date, an official has said.
The National Coordinator of the CSDP, Dr Abdulkarim Obaje, told newsmen, last Saturday, that the goal was to reach out to poor communities so that development would flourish.
He spoke shortly after the presentation of the Community-Driven Development Policy (CDDP) held in Abuja.
Obaje said that the policy would provide a framework for organising poor communities and vulnerable groups together to access development resources from the government or donor partners to address their own peculiar needs.
The coordinator also disclosed that CSDP had more than 17,000 micro projects across 30 states that had been designed, implemented and sustained by members of the community.
He added that the projects, which were community-driven, were conceived, implemented, managed and sustained by members of the community themselves.
“The major plan for the implementation of the projects in all the 30 participating states, where over N90billion had been expended from 2009 to date, is community development.