Perm Sec urges MDAs of ACReSAL to deliver on mandate

By Mashe Umaru Gwamna

The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Environment, Ibrahim Idris has tasked Ministries, Department and Agencies of the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) to implement and ensure proper supervision and monitoring of projects to achieve delivery of their mandate to the project.
Idris who is also the Chairman, Federal Technical Committee of the ACRESAL Project, made the disclosure at weekend, while
presenting operational vehicles to some of the lead implementing MDAs on the ACReSAL Project.
This was contained in statement signed and issued by Jane Ozuruoke
For: Head, Press and Public Relations Unit
Fed. Min. Of Environment .
The statement noted that the presentation of the vehicles is to enable the project realize it’s cardinal components of increasing landscapes restoration and enhance livelihoods in the participating states.
In his welcome address, National Project Coordinator
Umar Abdulhamid, said ACReSAl has an investment portfolio of 700 million US dollars to intervene and address issues surrounding landscapes degradation arising from desertification, deforestation that has been brought about by climate change, challenges, natural causes and human activities.
He said the impact has been enormous “The project is a six -year lifespan project that just started a year ago. Our team has started actual implementation. Restoration of landscapes have started immensely.
At the last count, we have actually been able to restore over 2,000 degraded landscapes.
“We have over 96,529 beneficiaries directly and the list is ongoing. Our expectation is that by mid-term review, we would have been able to deliver more than 60% of the goals and achievements at the land and ecosystem restoration level and the beneficiaries in total.”