State2State trains USAID IPs in Gombe
The USAID Nigeria – State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity has conducted a two-day workshop for USAID Implementing Partners working in priority sectors in Gombe State.
The workshop, which was concluded in Gombe on Friday is themed: “Governance Orientation for States’ Implementing Partners in Core/Priority Sectors (Health, Education and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) in Gombe State.”
The training was to ensure alignment of the activities of IPs with the State2State’s purpose and objectives, enhance collaboration, and promote effective service delivery in Gombe State.
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The orientation for the IPs was also to avoid duplication, miscommunication, misaligned priorities, and inefficiencies, thus threatening the success of the development initiatives of State2State.
In addition, the orientation was aimed at exposing the IPs to the governance intricacies and power-play at state and local government levels among the key governance stakeholders that can affect the implementation of IPs interventions in Gombe State.
In the course of the exercise, no fewer than 23 participants learned about State2State interventions from inception in 2020 to date as the training helped the participants in deepening their understanding of Governance, political economy analysis, PFM, GESI, and the Conflict Assessment Framework.
Declaring the workshop open on Thursday, Dr Ishiyaku Babayo, the Special Adviser to Gov. Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State on Development Partner Coordination (SA,DPC) commemded USAID State2State Activity for the capacity building.
Babayo called for effective coordination, integration, and alignment of IP activities, adding that such would drive more achievements for all stakeholders implementing USAID programmes in the state.
On his part, Mr Muhammad Abubakar, State Team Lead, USAID State2State Activity in Gombe State in his welcoming remarks reiterated the importance of all programmes being implemented by USAID to work together through collaboration, coordination, and cooperation to maximize the impact of all the various intervention.
Abubakar who made a presentation entitled Overview of Good Governance: Principles and Applications: Implications for USAID Partners said the orientation would guide IPs to build up sustainability from their various projects’ key outcome, impact results and lessons that would allow Gombe State to take ownership in delivering inclusive quality service to their citizens.
The event was attended by USAID Activities in the State that include, USAID Learn to Read Activity, Mercy Corps’ Rural Resilience Activity, and the activity being implemented by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
A representation of CSOs funded by USAID’s Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) among others.
Our Correspondent reports that the USAID Nigeria State Accountability, and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity is designed to assist the Government of Nigeria in six partner states (Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Gombe, and Sokoto) to strengthen accountability, transparency, and effectiveness in increasing service delivery and access to basic education, primary health care, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
State2State does this in Gombe by working with the Gombe State government’s ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs), the private sector, communities, and civil society organizations (CSOs) to deliver interventions and technical assistance aimed at strengthening the governance systems (particularly public financial management systems and processes) of the state and four target LGAs.
Because State2State interventions are initiated on needs’ basis in response to outcomes of systems and process’s assessments carried out on priority MDAs in the states, the Activity works in collaboration with, or enhances the work of other development partners, sometimes called Implementing Partners (IPs) as they relate to the objectives of State2State across partners states.
