As part of efforts to ensure that the micro projects scheduled to be executed by the Ogun State government in collaboration with World Bank in six Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the State meet the required professional standard, the Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA), has trained its Desk Officer in Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) of government on how to achieve it's objectives.
Speaking at a one day training programme organized for the Desk officers, held in Abeokuta with the theme: Role of the State Ministry Department and Agencies; Desk officers in the achievement of the agencies objectives, the General Manager of CSDP, Engr.Sakirudeen Salaam said the programme would help improve the technical competence of civil servants who would be directly involved in the implementation of the project at the State and community levels.
Salaam added that development was the resolve of the agency’s readiness to provide Community- driven investment whereby lives are touched positively through financing of micro project at the rural areas.
“CSDP is about Community- driven social investment whereby lives are touched positively through the financing of micro project at the rural and community level, by such means project having to do with water, class room blocks, health centre electrification, road and drainages and so are implemented by the community who initiate them”, he said.
Salaam who stated the significant of involving professional particularly from MDAs, said this would provide opportunity to explore their technical advice as call to service in order to complement the effort of the State government as well as making life meaningful for the people of the State, through the provision of social infrastructural facilities to the communities and rural areas in a way that would ensure value for money spent and enduring sustainable quality micro-project that meet World Bank standard.
In its welcome address, the Agency Board Chairman, Pastor Oladipo Odeyemi said the training was to enlighten the MDA Desk officers on their roles in relation to CSDP, noting that the training would enable the participants to understand the structure and its implementation procedures as well as clarify grey areas to their expected roles.
He however charged the officers, to see the task as a service to humanity and shun every means of corruption, saying as professionals they should avoid the temptation of being lured into becoming contractor.
In their presentations, the Operation Manager CSDA, Alhaji Yinka Amosun, Project Officer Supervisor, Engr. Olubusayo Balogun, and Project Officer, IECT. Mr. Oluwaseyi Adebanjo submitted that the desk officers were expected to ensure social inclusion through gender equality and the people participation to boost utilisation, maintenance and sustainability of the project.
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