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Oborevwori Has Paid N600 million Counterpart Funding For 2024 Cycle Of SDGs Project, Says Director-General, Ivwighren

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By Chukwudi Asoya/Magnus Emuji

The Director-General of the Delta State Directorate of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Chief Daniel Ogbodo Ivwighren, said that Oborevwori led administration has paid N600 millon as the state counterpart funding for the 2024 cycle of the Sustainable Development Goals since February this year.

Chief Ivwighren disclosed this in Asaba while speaking with newsmen shortly after declaring open a two day capacity building workshop for staff of his office.

The DG said that SDGs has 17 goals anchored on poverty eradication which is the goal one , access to quality education and the goal five gender equality among others.

He said that the only challenge the directorate was having at the moment was the inability of the federal government to pay her 50% counterpart funding for the implementation of the SDGs project in the state.

Ivwighren, who stated that goals of the SDGs was to wipe out poverty , ensure quality education and gender equality in the society, recalled that in 2015, the United Nations and other stakeholders came together to transform Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into Sustainable Development Goals.

The DG explained that the state government has sustainability plan for SDGs and appealed to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that the federal government fulfilled her part to enable them commence project implementation in the state.

In his remarks address, the State Director of Sustainable Development Goals, Mr. Ebregha Areweremi said that the training was aimed at exposing participants to new techniques, stressing that it was an opportunity to reawaken their capacity for greater productivity.

Areweremi stated that SDGs project in health, education, environmental and renewable energy among others was designed to improve the lives of citizens, emphasizing that the office had done well from Okowa to the present administration of Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori.

While saying that efforts were on going to prevail on the federal government to fulfill her counterpart funding as contained in their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Areweremi advised participants to take the training seriously.

In their lecture presentations, the Director of Administration in the Directorate, Mr. Samuel Okonye, the Director of Finance and Accounts, Mrs. Evelyn Enaohwo, Mr. Palmer Benard and Mrs. Anthonia Damasus as well as Emunomoo E. E spoke on civil service rule, public sector accounting and Financial statement analysis, project and programme cycle design management, monitoring and evaluation of policies project programme and sustainable development goals and governance.

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