A Seven hundred million dollars project aimed at building the capacity of communities towards creating resilience in the management of their various environment in Plateau State has been launched.
The project, which is the brain child of the World Bank, is to specifically provide the needed fund and platform through which every benefiting community is expected to own and cater for it.
In view of the increasing rate of human activities that have inturn affected the climate, various activities have been introduced to checkmate the impact of such activities on the environment.
In view of this, programmes such as the Agro Climate resilience in Semi- Arid Landscape, ACReSAL project was launched in Plateau State.
Speaking at the official Launch, the Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, described the World Bank as a lender.
He further stated that the money provided is expected to be repaid.
He therefore appealed and urged all those involved in the implementation of the project to “deal with it as a liability”.
Earlier in his address, National Coordinator of the project, Mr Abdulhamed Umar noted that the significance of the project was so paramount that agencies such as the World Bank had to support.
On his part, Plateau state Project Coordinator, Mr Garba Gonkol while appreciating the bank for the choice of the state, expressed the readiness of the state towards utilizing the fund judiciously.
Also in a remark, the World Bank Country Director, Nigeria, Shubham ChanuHuri expressed delight on the words of encouragement received from beneficiaries and charged the state to ensure usage of the fund provided for the purpose intended.
The event was climaxed with the formal official declaration of the launch of the project.