OXFAM, Cruden, others’ intervention, a boast to Adamawa — Makina

Country Director of OXFAM in Nigeria, an international Non-Governmental Organisation, John Makina says the intervention made by OXFAM in collaboration with 3 other development partners and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic  Cooperation and Development (bmz), has impacted positively the lives of people of Michika local government area and Adamawa state in general.

Makina noted that the projects implemented in the eleven 11) months stay in the community promoted peace and participation in governance in the local government area. 

OXFAM’s Country Director for Adamawa state disclosed the development on Friday in Yola at a two-day engagement marking the project close-out review and dissemination training workshop.

He stressed that “the intervention program was to improve and encourage citizens’ participation in governance and to strengthen social cohesion through inclusive participatory community development planning”.

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He explained that the workshop was organized for the stakeholders in the sixteen (16) wards of the Michika local government area to access the successes and areas in need of improvement on the project coded “improving social cohesion through community Development Planning (CDP) in Michika “.

Makina stated that “since the inception of the project in June 2023, over 16000 critical stakeholders were reached out to establish a community-driven integrated and comprehensive approach to community development planning.”

Leveraging on the state and local government citizens engagement and participatory planning (CEPP), he said, “It was meant to improving socio-economic participation of IDPs, returnees, host communities and other vulnerable groups in Northeast Nigeria particularly in Michika local government area”.

“The project was implemented by OXFAM in partnership with the Christian Rural and Urban Development Association in Nigeria (CRUDAN), and Centre for Public Education and Mobilisation for Development in Nigeria (CEPAD) respectively”.He maintained.

The permanent secretary in charge of the Adamawa State Planning Commission, Mr Amos Enock, expressed gratitude to the development partners for choosing Adamawa state for the intervention of the project.

Enock pledged that the state government would replicate the project in other LGAs to ensure sustainability and to carry everyone in the policies implementation drive for the development of our communities.

The district head of Bazza, Alhaji Saidu Lawal Bashar, said the coming of the organizations has contributed immensely to restoring peace and trust in their communities noting that before the adventure of the project, his subjects were living in hatred, mistrust and suspicion among themselves.

Some of the participants interviewed commended the gesture by the development partners and German government calling on Nigerian governments to provide counter-funding to any viable intervention programs by partners in the country.