A non-governmental organization committed to tracking government spendingâ€
s at the grassroots Connected Development (CODE) has taken its ‘Follow The Money’ campaign to Ondo state. The organization which is currently in operation in about eight states of the federation across the Northern and Southern part of the country enlisted Ondo as one of the new states that will benefit from the ‘Follow The Money’ advocacy campaign. In respect of that, on Saturday, September 1, 2018 it held its first training for its Ondo state volunteers.
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The training which took place at the state capital was an avenue for the organization to familiarize itself with the new community champions in Ondo state and to take them through its flagship advocacy which covers more than thirty projects in Owo local government area of the state which will also spread to other parts of the sunshine state in due course. The tracking will cover the tracking of six hundred and twenty education projects in the state under the UBEC/SUBEB counterpart funding for the year 2013-2016.
According to the organization programs manager (Education) Busayo Morakinyo who is the convener of the training, the tracking is important so that these laudable projects can be executed to details as contained in the Bill of Quantity and project description, he enjoined the new volunteers to see themselves as a development partners that will lead the infrastructural transformation in the state education sector.
Sharing his experience while tracking SUBEB projects in Lagos state early in the year 2018, Adesina Tosin Nathaniel, CODE Lagos state community champion advised the new champions for Ondo state to be resilient in their given task irrespective of the challenges as the Joy of the tracking comes to fore when new schools springs up in their communities and Ondo state children have access to better educational infrastructure as contained in the UBEC mandate.
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In the same vein CODEâ€s Project Assistant, Damilola Odu advised the new champions on the necessary code of conduct in their respective communities starting from their ability to interact well with community members in their local dialect or through an interpreter, information collection in the community and other necessary prerequisites for a successful tracking process.
At the end of the training, ten new champions were commissioned to take on Owo local government projects as its pilot tracking. The team is coordinated by Ondo state CODE community champion coordinator Ajongbolo Olugbenga. Connected Development was established in the year 2012 with a mandate to build the largest social accountability movement while also empowering marginalized communities in Africa. Through its activities, over one hundred and fifty four thousand lives has been impacted.
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