NGO to train 1,220 people in community development

Simon Utebor, Yenagoa

The Afrihealth Optonet Association, a non-governmental organisation being funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund, has commenced its Sustainable Citizens’ Participation Project in Bayelsa State.

The group said it had completed a two-day capacity building workshop in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, for selected 18 focal persons.

Afrihealth said the project, which is being executed simultaneously in the nine states of the Niger Delta, intends to deepen citizens’ participation in governance and community development.

It said a total of 1,220 focal persons would be trained across the various local government areas in the states of the region to execute the SCP project.

Among the issues covered at the training workshop were the historical background of the Niger Delta and its states, tribes and nationalities, imperatives of peace for development, advocacy and entry meetings, mapping of the political context and stakeholder analysis, and the concept of the SCP, among others.

The Project Director, AOA, Uzodinma Adirieje, explained that the participants were drawn from the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State.

Adirieje, who also led some members of the NGO on an advocacy visit to the state Commissioner for Development Community, said that activities of the SCP project funded by the UNDEF would address some of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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