The Adamawa State Government in
collaboration with European Union, EU has organized a two day capacity building
workshop to ensure implementation of sanitation reforms for civil society
organizations and media practitioners in the state.
Declaring the workshop open on
Friday in Yola, the state capital, commissioner for Water Resources, Honorable
Julius K. Kadala described the workshop as a critical stakeholders meeting
which is expected to be valuable not only in accelerating safe sanitation
coverage in the state but to increase the technical capacity of various
organizations on sanitation issues.
Kadala stated that, the
capacity training programme was a continuation of their resolve to empower all
stakeholders groups with the skills and knowledge to drive sanitation campaign
in the state. “We deliberately created the media non-governmental organization
and two critical non-state actors to this workshop in view of their strategic
roles and responsibilities, While the media is regarded as the fourth estate of
the realm with a constitutional responsibility of upholding the accountability
of the Government to the people, the non-governmental organizations are widely
known for having skills and expertise in community mobilization” he said. The
two groups are therefore strategic partners in the collective effort to ensure
access to safe sanitation services in the state.
While commending the European Union water
supply and sanitation sector programme phase III for facilitating the workshop.
Mr. Kadala said access to safe sanitation services in the state is still a huge
challenge caused by a myriad of factors including; poor hygiene habits, poor
maintenance cultures, dilapidated sanitation infrastructure, almost zero
budgeting for water related sanitation.
Earlier in his keynote address,
the representative of Europian Union, Mr. Babatope Babalobi said, water supply
and sanitation sector reform programme WSSSRP- phase III, is to create flat
form for the need of reforms review in the sanitation section by the
stakeholders. Mr. Babalobi stressed the need and importance of the state
actors, civil society organization and the media practitioners in the state to
as a matter of public importance established a solid synergy between the three
bodies so that sanitation reforms would be implemented for the benefit of all
and sundry.
However the programme manager, small town’s water supply and sanitation agency in the state Ministry if Water Resources Mal. Shuaibu Suleiman said the present administration of Governor Umaru Jibirilla is ready to support any policies aimed at improving lives and living condition of his people especially those in the water and sanitation sector and call on the partners to scale up their support to other sectors in the state.
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