The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has called on government and other non governmental organizations to make efforts to help in facilitating interventions aimed at developing the capacity of WASH officers in order for them to acquire the necessary skills needed to intervene in the rehabilitation of boreholes in rural communities as part of the Village Level Operation and Maintenance (VLOM).
Program Officer, WASH, Water Management, Urban Development and STI of JICA Nigeria, Gomina Hamza made this known in an exclusive interview with Niger Star News Blog in Pankshin, at the end of a 5-Day training workshop organized by the Plateau State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (PRUWASSA) sponsored by JICA.
JICA representative Gomina Hamza called Government and other organization to the fact that these types of interventions are crutial and necessary. He noted that there are several communities in need of such, hence government should make efforts in improving the capacity of staff of the various RUWASSAs so that they can in turn help in repairing broken boreholes in rural communities in order to provide portable and safe drinking water.
He expresses satisfaction with the level of involment of participants during the field work which he personally supervised. According to Mr Gomina, the participants have demonstrated that they can effectively communicate what they have learnt when they return to their various LGAs where they are expected to stepdown the knowledge acquired.
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