Gombe moves to redress grievances of GO-CARES beneficiaries

Gombe State’s Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning has commenced a 3-day training for implementing officers of Gombe Community Action for Resilience and Economic Stimulus (GO-CARES).

The training focused on grievance redress mechanisms, especially for gender-based violence.

In his speech during the opening of the workshop at Flourish hotel, Gombe, the national coordinator of NG-CARES, Abdulkarim Obaje, emphasised the importance of addressing beneficiaries’ grievances and commended Gombe State for organising the training and inviting NG-CARES to facilitate.

Obaje revealed that NG-CARES has over 50 million beneficiaries across states, with $750 million invested in the programme.

He urged the public to use the grievance mechanism to report complaints.

Also speaking, the state commissioner of budget and economic planning, Salihu Baba Alkali, explained that NG-CARES is a World Bank project domesticated in Gombe State as GO-CARES to assist the vulnerable.

He noted that the programme reduces poverty in the state through empowerment, stressing the importance of grievance redressing in making it more impactful and fair.

“Greivance redress is a very important mechanism because once you are dealing with a programme like this and you don’t give the chance to beneficiaries or implementers to complain , you are not correct. That is the reason why we are organising this to ensure implementing partners and beneficiaries know their rights and what they should do whenever there is a problem.”, he said.

Earlier, the state programme coordinator of GO-CARES, Michael Habila, praised Governor Inuwa Yahaya for disbursing adequate funds to execute their projects.