From Umar Dankano, Yola
The federal, state, and local governments have been charged to ensure the initiation and implementation of policies and programs with direct bearings on the populace in the country.
A Consultant on policy influencing and engagement, Mr. Kenneth Okoimene gave the charge in Yola during a capacity-building training on policy influencing and civil engagement organized by OXFAM and CRUDAN for civil society Organisations and Community-based Organisations in Adamawa state.
Okoimene said the training was purposely organized to broaden the knowledge and capacity of the members of civil society Organisations and community-based bodies towards influencing government’s policies with a positive impact on its citizens.
He explained further that the training will strengthen the civil engagement with critical stakeholders to ensure the full implementation of policies that can benefit the larger society.
He enjoyed the participants to keep their differences and work assiduously for doing the needful by making the governments provide the most needed programs and policies in governance.
Earlier in his remarks, the Livelihood Influencing program officer of CRUDAN, Mohammed Abdulrahman Jada said for effective and efficient engagement with the government in the state the training was imminent.
Abdulrahaman Jada noted that with the recent signing of open government partnership( OGP) by the Adamawa state government, the capacity building of the CSOs and CBOs is needed for the overall development of the state.
Jada added that the training will expose the participants to the technicalities to be adopted in influencing government on resources allocation on projects with a meaningful impact on the public.
A participant, Ahmed Dada in an interview commended the organizers of the training stressing that it was rich and timely considering the ways governance is being executed in the country.
Dada assured that with the knowledge impacted on is the business not be as usual because will cha, one for the better, especially with the signing of the OGP by the government in the state.
The three (3) day training which had twenty (20) CSOs, twenty (20) CBOs, and Ten (10) coordinating officials was funded by the European Union, EU through its development partners of OXFAM and CRUDAN.
