World Bank, FG Commend Delta Cares Over Poverty Reduction

Officials of the World Bank and Federal CARES Support Unit have commended Delta CARES programme over the willingness of the new administration to be outstanding in impacting on numerous beneficiaries across the state.

The team leader, Mr Chetachi Edebeatu, from the Federal CARES Support Unit, disclosed this at the end of the two days pre-mid-term review visit to the state, stating that with the encouragement by the project staff, the state officials would reduce poverty to a reasonable minimum level.

Edebeatu, a senior environmental safeguard specialist disclosed “the personnel in-charge of the various delivery platforms in the state were very much experienced in effectively implementing the programme in the state according to the designs of the world bank for the overall interest of bringing succour to the less privileged in the society”.

The world bank official revealed that the outstanding performance of the state in the implementation CARES programme should prompt the state government to release more funds to consolidate on the program’s gains so as to reach out to more numbers of poor and vulnerable Deltans.

The commissioner for Economic Planning and chairman of the State CARES steering committee, Mr. Sonny Ekedayen, appreciated the project staff for their professionalism, effectiveness and efficiency which earned the state accolades from the program’s implementors.

The commissioner for agriculture and natural resources, Mr Perez Omoun, alongside the commissioner for humanitarian support services and girl-child entrepreneurship, Hon. Orode Uduaghan, reiterated the willingness of the new administration to reduce poverty to a reasonable minimum level.

The secretary of the state CARES Steering Committee and Delta CARES Coordinator, Lady Patience Ogbewe, reassured them that the delivery platforms will always be on the fields to bring the benefits of the CARES program to the target beneficiaries.