The Kaduna State Government has charged Local Governments Councils to consolidate the gains of the 2018-2020 Local Government Development Plan, LGDP.
The Director of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Local Government Affairs, Mallam Garba Sani Aliyu, gave the charge during a technical Session on enhancing policy and budget linkages between the State and Local Government.
The meeting, which was organised by the Ministry of Local Government Affairs in collaboration with the Planning and Budget Commission and Partnership to Engage Reform and Learn PERL, In Zaria, was funded by the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office, FCDO.
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Mallam Sani said the Session, which is a follow up to an earlier workshop in August 2021, aims to consolidate the achievements recorded with the development of the first Local Government Plan for 2018-2020 for the 23 Local Governments.
According to him, the session will ensure participants understand the processes involved in developing the LGDP.
He explained it would allow them to come up with a plan easily understandable and to link with the annual estimates of the Local Government Councils.
Also, Sani added that it will also expose the gaps between the responses earlier submitted and what ought to be submitted and provide an opportunity to enrich the initial work on the 2021-2025 LGDP that have been submitted.
On his part, the Reform Manager of the Accountable, Responsive and Capable Pillar of PERL said the objectives of the session are to consolidate on the gains of the previous plan, integrate lessons learnt from the implemented program for 2018-2020 and provide linkages to the Kaduna State Development Plan.
Participants at the session include; Directors of Works and Infrastructure, Deputy Directors of Budget and Assistant Directors’ Budget and Planning of the 23 LGAs and the Open Government Partnership community led by the Civil Society Steering Committee Co-Chair, Hadiza Umar.
