Umar Faruk, Gusau
United Nations Educational Fund (UNICEF ) has promised to commit over N480million to support women and children to access free healthcare services in Zamfara State.
UNICEF Chief of the Sokoto Field office, Michael Juma disclosed this during a three-day formal opening of UNICEF Interaction with Zamfara State Government officials on the State’s Ten-Year Strategic Plan.
This is a three-day formal opening of UNICEF Interaction with Zamfara State Government officials on the State’s 10-year Strategic plan, which stakeholders believed would help the Dauda Lawal-led administration to achieve results in its efforts to engender sustainable development in the State, in the areas of Social and Economic and Environmental development.
The UNICEF chief of the Sokoto Field office, Michael Juma in his presentation of the ten-year State Strategic Plan, said the Fund is committing four hundred and eighty million naira to enable women and children to access free healthcare services in Zamfara State.
He added that it is ready to develop accountability and monitoring and Evaluation framework to help the key officers managing the strategic plan to track progress, pledging to support the State government to enhance the competitiveness of staff on reporting and budgeting to help Governor Dauda Lawal know where the resources are going, the results achieved and how it would turn around the lives of the people.
Governor Dauda Lawal commended UNICEF for its support to the State and described the ten-year Strategic Plan drafted by the fund as a roadmap to guide his administration in addressing challenges and achieving development goals.
UNICEF said it is working to ensure children in Zamfara State have access to quality and inclusive education, with particular emphasis on out-of-school children to enrol them in school to acquire appropriate quality education to help them realize their full potential when they grow up.
