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DG, BASEPA, Dr Ibrahim Kabir (right), Mrs Rabi Ekele of USAID State2State, (centre) with another staff of the agency
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID State2State) is to train Staff of the Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency (BASEPA) on Environmental Education, Inspection and Data processing.
The disclosure was made at a round table discussion between the Director General of the Agency Dr Ibrahim Kabir and Mrs Rabi Ekele, Head of the Bauchi State office, USAID State2State during a courtesy Visit in her office.
Director General of the Agency said that the request for the training is part of his commitments to enhance the capacity of the Staff to handle the emerging environmental challenges and to also deliver it mandates of keeping the state clean and Healthy.
On the Environmental education and inspection, the Director General said that the training will help in resuscitating the units and also improve the Environmental awareness of the general public, through rigorous professional Health discussion and sensitisation programs, Jingles and Drama among others.
The head, Bauchi office of the Project, Rabi Ekele said that it is part of her organisation’s mandates to improve the capacity of the benefitting States in the areas of health, education, Water and Sanitation and Higiene (WASH) among others and will look into the requests and promised to respond appropriately to ensure Agency achieve the target objectives of the visit.
Mrs Rabi Ekele also used the occasion to inform the Director General areas of interest of her organisation and pledged to continue working hand in hand with the Agency
State2State is a five years USAID funded project in Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Gombe and Sokoto states the project designed to helps improve how these states plan and budget, raise revenues, increase civil society participation, and oversee service delivery in the health; education; and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sectors.
The training will be conducted as soon as all areas of collaboration between the two agencies were formalized as contained in a statement by Isyaka Laminu Badamasi, SA Media to DG BASEPA.
