No fewer than 40 Civil Society Organizations in Kano State under the aegis of Kano Civil Society Forum, have collaborated with the Canadian Funds for Local Initiatives, under the Canada High Commission in Nigeria to promote good governance.
The collaboration is also aimed at fostering peace and security as well as combat gender-based violence, and address other pressing issues affecting the state.
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The President of the Kano Civil Society Forum, Muhammad Bello stated this while briefing newsmen shorty after a meeting between officials of the Canadian High Commission CFLI Team in Kano on Wednesday evening.
He said the aim of the meeting was to further expose Civil Society Organisations to the Donor Agencies and allow them to have access to funding.
“The discussion has been a robust one from the diverse CSOs that participated in the meeting to share their thoughts and experience about the kind of projects they have been working on,” he said.
He said they are working in active collaboration with the Canadian Funds for Local Initiative to tackle the problems of Climate Change, Insecurities, poverty, out-of-School girls, Gender-Based Violence and Education generally.
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“We are having over 40 Civil Society Organisations in Kano State and all of them are working on various areas of concern, a reason why they need to have more donor agencies supporting them”, he said.
The President said that CSOs are working assiduously on so many developmental projects in Kano and currently they are making headway in ensuring that they have more concentration on areas like health and education that disturbed people.
“The Canadian Funds for Local Initiative and our Forum are working in tandem in Kano and also exposed CLOs to those problems and give them more inputs as to how to tackle them”.
Some of the areas of concern according to the interface include, poverty, Traditional and Cultural factors, issues of beliefs and lack of Policy implementation by the Government.
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“We are working also to change the old narrative of sticking to only advocacy by the Civil Society Forums to more of tracking Budgetary Allocation, Feedback mechanism and bottom to Up syndrome,” he said.
He, therefore, called on the CFLI to look into the multifaceted socio-economic challenges discussed during the meeting with a view to providing the needed intervention for the development of the state.
