UNICEF, Commonwealth Hand Over Climate-Resilient Health, Education Facilities To Jigawa

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), successful collaboration with the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has handed implicit 11 climate-resilient superior healthcare and basal acquisition facilities to the Jigawa State government.

At the ceremonial successful Chamo town, Dutse section authorities area, Governor Umar Namadi commended the FCDO and UNICEF for their multi-faceted interventions.

He said upgrading wellness and acquisition facilities to beryllium resistant to clime alteration is simply a strategical initiative, arsenic Jigawa is 1 of the states that battles perennial floods and rainstorms, which consistently necessitate costly renovations of specified nationalist facilities.

“The remodeled, climate-resilient infrastructure volition service arsenic a model, and we committedness to show its ratio and standard it up to different section governments to execute greater outgo savings, sustainable work delivery, and a simplification successful biology degradation,” the politician said.

“The Chamo Primary Healthcare Facility and Primary School, built successful the 1960s, person undergone a bid of renovations and upgrades. However, the facilities person ne'er experienced the level of enlargement and betterment we are seeing today, handed implicit by the FCDO and UNICEF. We are precise grateful for that.”

“FCDO and UNICEF person been accordant and enduring partners to Jigawa State for decades, peculiarly successful the areas of Water and Sanitation, Immunization, Basic Education, Child Nutrition, Governance, and Public Accountability. The interaction of their interventions has helped amended the prime of nationalist work transportation and the socio-economic improvement of our beloved state.

We convey you for that,” Governor Namadi stated.

Speaking astatine the event, the UNICEF state manager successful Nigeria, Mrs. Wafaa Saeed, said that with backing from the FCDO, the task was executed successful 3 aviator section authorities areas of Jigawa State: Dutse, Birniwa, and Kafin Hausa.

She explained that the involution aims to supply a replicable exemplary for the authorities and different nationalist and backstage organisations to travel erstwhile gathering facilities to guarantee sustainable work transportation and clime resilience.

For her part, the FCDO state manager successful Nigeria, Mrs. Cynthia Rowe, commended the Jigawa State Government for its committedness to the memoranda of knowing (MoUs), which made the project’s implementation seamless.

She added, “Climate-resilient infrastructure is an inaugural designed to endure existent challenges similar planetary warming, flooding, windstorms, and different biology degradation that tin harm infrastructure earlier the extremity of its intended lifespan.”

“As we manus implicit these facilities, we are precise grateful to the Jigawa State Government and the beneficiary communities for their benignant cooperation. We anticipation this inaugural volition beryllium scaled up, and we look guardant to continued collaboration successful assorted areas of quality and ecosystem development,” Mrs. Rowe said.