Gov Badaru signs five year strategic dialogue with FCDO

From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse

Jigawa State Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar yesterday signed a
Strategic Dialogue for Mutual Accountability in Development Partnership with Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO).
Speaking shortly after signing the dialogue, governor Badaru said, FCDO contributed towards improvement of many sectors particularly health, education, poverty reduction and economic growth in the state.
He said, Jigawa state government under his administration will continue to partner with FCDO and any other developmental organisations for a betterment of the state.
Governor Badaru also appreciated UK government for supporting the implementation of various programs particularly in the areas of governance reforms ,human development and economic growth.
“I am happy to say that these have continued to impact positively on the socio economic development of Jigawa State and wellbeing of its people.
Since 2008 ,Jigawa State has ranked 1st in the independent national assessment conducted by Civil Resources Development and Documentation Center in Nigeria (CIRDOC-Nigeria ) supported by UK-Aid and other development partners.
These reforms have also significantly contributed to our topmost performance in the World-Bank supported SFTAS Program which has allowed the State to access development grants. “
The governor maintained that, with the FCDO commitments as captured in the shared daft Manual Accountability framework, prayed that the new program would directly contributes to his administration Education Change Agenda particularly towards addressing out-of-the school children and sustainable improvements in teacher quality.
While making his remarks, the FCDO developmental director Dr Chris Pycroft who lead the team to Jigawa assured more support and commitments from FCDO to improve the lives of Jigawa citizens.