World Bank Lauds FCT’s Climate Project

The World Bank has rated the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) arsenic a high-performer successful the palmy implementation of the Agro-Climatic Resilience successful Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) project, holding it up arsenic a benchmark aft a three-year review.

The endorsement came during a tract sojourn by a high-level World Bank delegation, led by Practice Manager for West and Central Africa, Mrs. Ellysa Baroudy, to involution sites and beneficiary communities successful Kwali Area Council of the FCT.

Expressing restitution aft engaging with residents successful Pukafa assemblage and Sheda 1 village, Baroudy declared the task a resounding success.

Speaking during a royal homage to the Etsu of Kwali, she noted that though the World Bank Group has been the financier, the applicable FCT stakeholders knew however to deploy the resources to marque a quality successful people’s lives.

Baroudy said proceeding beneficiaries attest to however ACReSAL has truthful acold changed livelihoods is impervious that it is simply a palmy task successful the FCT.

“It is ever hard to instrumentality a program, but ACReSAL has succeeded successful Nigeria. I americium genuinely amazed by the diverseness of the cultures, the diverseness of agriculture, the diverseness of states, of which you are besides a microcosm,” she said.

“We don’t ever person palmy projects, but this is simply a palmy project. So, I truly privation to convey everybody wrong the ACReSAL household for your efforts. I americium genuinely touched.”

In akin vein, the Task Team Leader (TTL) for the ACReSAL task successful Nigeria, Dr. Joy Iganya Agene, explained that earlier engaging with communities, the ACReSAL squad pays homage to the accepted rulers earlier opening immoderate activity.

Agene added that the Practice Manager, who represents Nigeria and 22 different countries successful Western and Central Africa, is instrumental successful mobilizing resources not conscionable for the project, but besides for broader initiatives successful h2o resources, environment, forestry, and clime alteration financing.

The Mandate Secretary of the FCT Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat, Comrade Abdullahi Suleiman Ango, said since its inception, the FCT Administration has regarded the ACReSAL Project arsenic a existent game-changer.

He added that the project’s governance structures, notably the Steering Committee headed by the Honourable Minister of State for the FCT and the Technical Committee, person provided exemplary oversight successful task implementation.

Earlier, the Project Coordinator for the FCT, Mrs. Caroline Opara, described Kwali arsenic the bosom of ACReSAL involution programmes, arsenic each constituent of the task has been implemented there.