Adamawa State Government Expresses Commitment to the Success of ACReSAL Project
The Adamawa State Commissioner for Agriculture and rural development and Co-Chairman of the Adamawa State Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape (ACReSAL) Steering Committee, Hon. Umar Daware has expressed the State’s deep commitment to the success of ACReSAL project.
Hon. Daware made this known to the ACReSAL Federal Project Management Unit (FPMU) yesterday in Abuja when he led a delegation of the Adamawa state executive council comprising some commissioners that constitute the Adamawa state ACReSAL steering committee members and the Chairman of the technical committee of ACReSAL on a familiarization visit.
The ACReSAL state Steering and technical committees are bodies that provide overall policy and technical guidance on the ACReSAL project implementation at the state levels.
The Commissioner said the familiarization visit was to establish a strong strategic working relationship with the Federal team.
He said the calibre of the delegation is an indication of the importance the state attaches to the ACReSAL Project, hence the need for more technical support from the federal team and the World Bank in the project implementation.
Receiving the visitors, the National Project Coordinator of the ACReSAL, Mr. Abdulhamid Umar informed the committee that ACReSAL has four stand alone but complimentary components. He further noted that ACReSAL is not a grant from the World Bank but an investment expected to make sustainable impact.
The NPC said that the project development objective of ACReSAL is to increase the implementation of sustainable landscape management practices in targeted watersheds in northern Nigeria and strengthen Nigeria’s long-term enabling environment for integrated climate-resilient landscape management. The objective is the investment and the products and activities to solve the problem of climate change are located at the state, local and community levels.
He said that the FPMU is responsible for coordination, direction, technical support and guidance to all the implementing states that took this facility from the World Bank.
He appreciated the structural responsibility in the project documents given that there is clear accountability in the project implementation.
Earlier in his remarks, the Adamawa State Project Coordinator, Adamu Abubakar thanked the NPC and his team for hosting the delegation from Adamawa state. He noted that the commissioners will take a lot from the meeting in terms of their roles as been presented.
Other members of the delegation are,
Hon. Adamu Atiku Abubakar, Hon. commissioner for works, Hon Aloysius Baba Doke, Hon. Commissioner for Youths Development, Hon Lami Ahmed, Hon. commissioner for women affairs, Hon. Dr. Mary Paninga, state chairperson Planning Commission, Engr Cletus Gwotel , Permanent Secretary Ministry of Environment (Chairman technical Committee ACRESAL) and Engr Ibrahim Denis Chinda Phd, Adamawa State Project Coordinator of the ACReSAL Project.