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MONITORING AND EVALUATION OFFICIALS UNDER SURWASH PROGRAM GETS CAPACITY BOOST

August 3, 2022 admin Comments Off

Day1 of the Capacity Building workshop for Monitoring and Evaluation Officers in the SURWASH Program.

The World Bank financed Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (SURWASH) program organized a two-day capacity building workshop for Monitoring and Evaluation officers drawn from implementing agencies of the seven (7) program states of Delta, Ekiti, Gombe, Imo, Kaduna, Katsina, Plateau states.

The attendance included Heads of Implementing agencies, State Project Coordinators and M&E State Program Implementation Units (SPIU). The workshop which aims to build capacity of officers responsibile for timely, accurate information that can be used to assess progress, will ensure the revitalization of Nigeria’s Water supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector through infrastructure that works, policies that govern and institutions that sustain.

Leading the delegation from Imo state to the event held in Ajuji Greenwich Hotel Abuja on 2nd and 3rd August 2022 were MD/CEO Imo State Water and Sewerage Corporation (ISWSC) Engr. Ugoanyanwu FNSE FNIWE NPOM FOSHA KSJI and Engr Andy Ibeje, the State Project Coordinator, ably represented by the Deputy Project Coordinator Engr. Udegbe.

Day one of the event saw the National Project Coordinator, Engr. Abdulhamid Gwaram give an overview of the SURWASH program which is a loan of US$700m from World Bank to the Government of Nigerian over a six-year period. Sequel to that, Program M&E objectives and reporting requirements were highlighted and questions entertained from participants to further gain clarity. Being a result-based program driven by participating states and their respective implementing agencies, a presentation of their work plans for year one activities geared towards achieving various disbursement linked indicators KPIs and expected targets, were made.

More insight was given to the PIAP (Performance Improvement Action Plan) development Process to guide states on its speedy completion of the document before the set deadlines. Facilitators for the program include World Bank consultants: Judith Warmate, Mike Thibert, Abubakar Danladi, etc and the Federal Program Implemention Unit (FPIU) team. Other sessions featured were: disability inclusive data for MIS (Management Information System) and States M&E capacity assessment conducted by FPIU.