World Bank Praises 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 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 was 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 a 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, was instrumental successful mobilising 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 that 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.

She noted that the Practice Manager’s engagement with the beneficiaries would let her not conscionable to spot the projects but besides to perceive straight the stories of the radical whose lives are being transformed by ACReSAL. She attributed the project’s affirmative results chiefly to assemblage ownership and participation.

The Etsu of Kwali, HRH Luka Nizassan III, validated the ACReSAL task arsenic 1 of the astir palmy successful the country, confirming to the World Bank officials that its backing were achieving the desired results.

The monarch, who is the president of the Council of Chiefs successful Kwali Area Council, assured that accepted rulers successful the FCT were committed to ensuring that each portion of the task was implemented appropriately.

“As accepted leaders, we usher and place wherever this involution is astir needed, and we besides guarantee that the interventions scope the intended beneficiaries. That is what the FCT has been capable to achieve. We proceed to dedicate our efforts to guarantee projects scope their desired goals,” helium said.

“I privation to congratulate the World Bank for investing erstwhile again successful a noble task with bully results.”

The ACReSAL project, financed by the World Bank Group, focuses connected assemblage clime resilience, dryland management, contingent exigency response, and institutional strengthening.