UNICEF partners Anambra on increased budgetary allocation for children’s welfare

By Vincent Ujumadu

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is partnering with the Anambra State Government to amended budgetary allocations to sectors straight impacting children’s welfare.

At a grooming store for heads of readying successful cardinal Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) successful Awka, discussions focused connected enhancing assets allocation to conscionable developmental goals.

About 36 participants drawn from the Ministries of Budget and Economic Planning, Youth Development, Women Affairs, Finance, Health, Agriculture, Education, and Local Government, among others, attended the workshop.

A UNICEF Consultant, Dr. Sola Omoju, explained that UNICEF has remained a captious improvement spouse to Nigeria astatine some national and authorities levels, supporting initiatives connected education, health, nutrition, sanitation, hygiene, and kid protection.

“UNICEF is supporting fund planners to nexus expenditures to children’s needs successful cardinal areas of the state’s yearly budget. Over the years, allocations to education, health, and different child-impact sectors person not been commensurate with expectations. That is wherefore UNICEF decided to supply method enactment to selected states, including Anambra,” Omoju said.

He stressed that the extremity was not to enforce figures connected states but to physique the capableness of civilian servants to amended prioritize children’s needs successful fund planning. He added that successful the adjacent 3 years, the interaction of specified efforts would bespeak positively successful the state’s improvement outcomes.

The Principal Planning Officer successful the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, Dr. Chinedu Nwankwo, reviewed and updated the state’s cardinal argumentation documents: the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the Medium-Term Sector Strategy (MTSS).

According to him, the MTEF provides a three-year authorities expenditure plan, portion the MTSS outlines the goals, objectives, and strategies of circumstantial sectors. He described some arsenic “critical initiatives that amended performance, code assemblage challenges, and beforehand sustainable development.”

He commended UNICEF for its continuous support, assuring that the collaboration would fortify sectoral maturation and development.

Also speaking, the UNICEF focal idiosyncratic successful the Ministry, Orji Obiananma, said the store aimed to align plans with authorities priorities, heighten assets allocation and accountability, and amended wide fund planning.

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