Cross section of participants with the conflict specialist Akwa Ibom State, Mr Cosmos Dinee
By Freshgist
The State2State project ably sponsored by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has tasked ministries, Departments and Agencies of
government in Akwa Ibom State to be agents of conflict resolution and mitigation in their discharge of duties.
government in Akwa Ibom State to be agents of conflict resolution and mitigation in their discharge of duties.
Declaring Open a day workshop on the theme; Quarterly Conflict prevention and mitigation dialogue Akwa Ibom State, held on June 8 2023 at Uranus Hotel, Uyo, the state capital. The state team lead-State accountability, transparency and effective state to state Activity, Mr Borve Paago-Imabel, disclosed that the workshop was aimed to promote good governance and service delivery for the new government.
Imabel, who was represented by the S2S conflict specialist, Mr Cosmos Dinee stated that while working to increase responsiveness of citizen priorities, that the project also have the mandate to implore the government agencies on capacity to manage societal conflict through prevention, mitigation and dialogue.
Dinee emphased that development cannot thrive where conflicts persist added that when everyone is carried along, conflict tendencies will be reduced in the state.
He also called on government to always take deliberate effort in resolving conflict through informed dialogue.
Stressing that when attempting to mitigate conflict, each and everyone must take cognizance of the certain vulnerable members of population, youth, people living with Disabilities and woman ensuring that they don't feels excluded at any point.
Dinee also charged the MDAs to always channel their energies productively in conflict resolutions for the general good of all.
"In state2state, Our focus is on three key areas; Basic Education, primary health care and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
"These are critical issues in the sustainable development goals which is already running since 2015, when the mellinium development goals ended in 2015 and was replaced by the sustainable development goals , that what ever progress or effort was made on MDG 2000- 2015 should be taken forward by the SDGs 2016-2030.
So there are certain expectation from the United Nations that all states community, Local governments, and the world at large on achieving education for all by 2030.
"Under WASH, there's a strong concern on eradication of open defication so there's a linkage between them so we can't talk about health without wash and of course there's a place for education in all Eevee mentioned. So at the end we will be able to measure the effectiveness in service delivery using indicator drawn from our key sectors. And when u are talking about good governance, it is defined by the impacts of governance in lives of citizens . These are the areas we specialize on.
"We urge all government agencies to sit up as the new government begins, we encourage inclusive governance, if certain vulnerable members of population, youth, people living with Disabilities and woman feels excluded at any point, it enough reason for conflict to arise.
"When addressing conflict that arises from fund, it must be associated with budgeting processes, citizens feels excluded and this drives conflict.
" So when management of public fund, people's opinion should be made priority because there can also be violence of implementation, how well the resources was manage
"So, The PFM looks at the effectiveness of public finance management in the state and how they are able to impact lives of the citizen.
"All we want good governance and service delivery for the new government , drawing review the implementation of action plan and resolution from the previous quarterly dialogue and setting a workable agenda for the new government on governance improvement in priority sector, peace and stability of state inclusivity". He added
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