The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has selected 10 local government areas in Kano state for the implementation of its activities in 2018. UNICEF Chief, Katsina Field Offi ce, Mrs Padmauathi Yedla, disclosed this during a meeting with Kano state government officials yesterday.
The state Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Murtala Sule-Garo and chairmen of the 10 local councils attended the meeting. She said UNICEF would implement its programme in the areas of malnutrition in children, provision of safe drinking water, health, education as well as improving access to girl-child education.
“We are going to execute our education programme in six local government areas while the other programmes will be carried out in all the 10 LGAs,” she said. According to her, the selected local government areas are; Bichi, Dawakin Tofa, Nasarawa, Kano Municipal, Ungoggo, Gaya, Takai, Sumaila, Danbatta and Gwarzo.
She said the UNICEF team which had been in the state for the past five days, had met with the state officials with a view to discussing the criteria for the implementation of the programmes. “We visited the selected local government areas to develop the 2018 programme. We also sat down with the officials to finalise arrangement for the take-off of the programme,” Padmauathi said. She stated that the State Engagement Plan is expected to be signed by the state government and UNICEF officials on Wednesday next week to formalise the agreement.
