Thirty Five Independent Monitors trained by Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development of the Ministry in Enugu State
Thirty Five independent monitors have been trained by the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to monitor the programs of the ministry in Enugu State.
The Programmes are the N-Power program, National Home Grown School Feeding Program, Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT, Programme and the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program, GEEP.
The Minister, Hajia Umar Farouq, in a message to the onboarding and training exercise for the stream two independent monitors of the national social investment program, on Friday, appealed to the participants to deploy best practices in carrying out the task.
The Minister, represented by her Special Assistant on Administration, Mr. Ngene Kingsley Bashir, said that the National Social Investment Program, was a Federal Government Initiative created by the present administration of President Muhammad Buhari to lift poor Nigerians out of poverty.
According to her, the initiative which will leverage on some social intervention program like the N-Power program, National Home grown school feeding program, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program, GEEP and Conditional Cash Transfer program is to create jobs for the teeming youths and the most vulnerable Nigerian citizens.
The Minister said that the mandate of the independent monitors were to supervise the National Social Investment Programs in communities, schools, house holds and market clusters.
She said that the independent monitors, spread across the seventeen local government areas of Enugu State will ensure that the aim of the program was achieved.
The Enugu State Focal Person, National Social Investment Program, Doctor Innocent Ogbonna identified lack of focal persons involvement at the planning stages of the program as one of the challenges that bedeviled the initiative.
He said that there was the need for synergy at the initial stage of the program to address some peculiar needs of states before the program launch.
Two independent monitors, Mrs Chibota Onyema and Mr Collins Chukwuemeka expressed satisfaction with the exercise and affirmed their readiness to discharge the duty with diligence.
