By Jessica John Bakari
The need for government, ministries, departments and agencies in Adamawa State to adopt monitoring and evaluation mechanism in carrying out their activities has been stressed.
Mr Machill Maxwell,the Adamawa State team lead of State to state Accountability, transparency and effectiveness activity of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), stated this during a 3 day workshop on monitoring and Evaluation for Projects held at American University of Nigeria,AUN hotel yola.
The three day monitoring and Evaluation for Projects was organized for participants from Adamawa state debt management unit, planing commission, ministries, departments and agencies by Adamawa State state to state activity being funded by USAID.
Mr Maxwell explained that the aim of the training is to increase the capacity of Adamawa State ministries, departments and agencies to improve their activities in monitoring and evaluation additing that government needs to do more in these areas to making the desired impact.
The state to state team lead pointed out that debt management agency was established to executing and monitoring projects but due to lack of capacity it has been unable to perform this important function smoothly.
He added that state to state team is supporting Adamawa government in training of personnel on results drive monitoring and evaluation of projects.
Mr Maxwell noted that the objective of the workshop is to train participants in revenue and expenditure balancing as it affects budget implementation, public procurement,debt management and fiscal responsibility.
Other aspects of the monitoring are to develop templates, guidelines and other tools for monitoring and evaluation as well as learning and reporting officials to apply such tools.
The facilitators at the workshop that include Mr Callistus Donatus , Ibrahim Sanusi and Mr Kusan took participants through various topics such as what monitoring and evaluation is all about, guidelines for adopting inductors, types of performance indicator and important of GESI in monitoring and Evaluation among others.
Mr Moses Helda from the debt management agency Yola, Ishaku Benson from Adamawa state primary health care development agency and Sydney Estone from the state planing commission seperately described the 3 day training as timely as it will broaden their knowledge and promised to step down knowledge gained to other colleagues in their various places of work.
Highlights of the three day training were group work, presentations while certificates were presented to all participants for their active participation.
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