The Oyo State government has set aside N732 million in the year 2021 budget to cater for community development under the state Community and Social Development Project (CSDP).
The state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, stated this at a 6-day CSDP Management Retreat and Review Meeting at the Premier Hotel in Ibadan.
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The review meeting was attended by the coordinators of CSDP from the 32 states to review the achievements of the project in the preceding years, discuss challenges and proffer solutions to improve the intervention through experience sharing.
Makinde, who was represented by his Special Adviser on World Bank Intervention, Mrs Aderonke Adedayo, said the fund, as earmarked in the next year’s budget, was to replicate the efforts of CSDP in Oyo State, alongside the COVID-19 Action Response and Economic Stimulus (CARES) in the state.
He said that the state has 175 community development plans that have been approved with 788 micro-projects that were completed and functional.
He said the state Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA) has also recorded success in its projects with support from financial institutions as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The National Coordinator, Community and Social Development Project (CSDP), Dr. Abdulkarim Obadje, in his welcome address, thanked the governors of all the states that have subscribed to the project.
He said despite the recent nationwide lockdown, occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic, CSDP was up and running by implementing various micro-projects under strict safety protocols.
