{"id":27430,"date":"2024-04-16T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/jigawa-govt-warns-beneficiaries-against-diversion-of-covid-19-support\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:05:00","slug":"jigawa-govt-warns-beneficiaries-against-diversion-of-covid-19-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/jigawa-govt-warns-beneficiaries-against-diversion-of-covid-19-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Jigawa Govt warns beneficiaries against diversion of COVID-19 support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Jigawa state Government has warned the beneficiaries of the COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) against sabotaging the objective.<\/p>\n<p>Technical Adviser on Agriculture and Chairman, NG-CARES, Dr Saifullahi Umar issued the warning while addressing some of the beneficiaries in Jahun Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Umar said the project was aimed at expanding access to livelihood support and food security services.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the committee was constituted by Governor Umar Namadi to develop an equitable, transparent, and accessible process of beneficiary targeting, selection and implementation monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cIn our pursuit of fairness and accuracy, we adopted a rigorous and scientific methodology for beneficiary and community selection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee used multiple approaches in the selection of communities and beneficiaries consistent with approved guidelines of the NG CARES Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe methods used were Generic Operations Manual (GOM), Jigawa Poverty and Vulnerability Community Ranking, and simple random selection technique. A total of 216 and 15 communities were selected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that 4220 beneficiaries were selected from poor and vulnerable hard-to-reach areas with little or no government presence for agricultural inputs and assets intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Umar therefore urged the beneficiaries to utilize the support wisely, fostering not just personal growth but also contributing to the overall development of their communities.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries commended the Jigawa State Government for the project, and promised to utilize the support judiciously.<\/p>\n<p>Jigawa Govt warns beneficiaries against diversion of COVID-19 support<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jigawa state Government has warned the beneficiaries of the COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) against sabotaging the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[814,15],"tags":[818,180],"class_list":["post-27430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jigawa","category-news","tag-jigawa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}