Anambra State is set to revive 200 government and private-owned skills acquisition and entrepreneurial centres across the state.
Bonaventure Enemali, commissioner for youth empowerment and creative economy, made the disclosure during an interactive session with stakeholders in Awka on Wednesday.
Enemali explained that the centres would be made functional with adequate training facilities, qualified facilitators, and sustainable skills and entrepreneurial programmes, saying the interactive session was meant to foster mutual relationship with the organisations.
The commissioner also said underway was ‘Anambra State Network of NGOs (ANSNGO), that would focus on youth and women development, education, health and community development.
He tasked the NGOs to take responsibility of monitoring and evaluating government projects in the state, especially those within the purview of the Ministry of Youth Empowerment and Creative Economy, like the skill acquisition and entrepreneurial centres.
The guest lecturer who is also the Anambra State coordinator, Network on Water and Sanitation in Nigeria (NEWSAN), Stanley Udedi, insisted that only effective monitoring and evaluation of projects could lead to sustainable impact on social development in the society.
Udedi, a professor of Applied Biochemistry, spoke on the topic ‘Effective Monitoring and Evaluation: A Panacea to sustainable Impact social Development.’
He pointed out that there is no management without monitoring unless one anticipates a monumental waste.
Udedi, also the dean, students’ affairs at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, emphasised that the essence of locating a project in a community was to have impact, and once that aim was defeated, the project had no usefulness to the community.
