Body hinges success of govt programmes on effective communication

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By Adeyemi Adepetun

26 August 2024 | 2:03 americium

The National Coordinator of the Rural Access And Agricultural Marketing Project (RAAMP), Aminu Bodinga Mohammed, has underscored the value of effectual connection successful ensuring the knowing and occurrence

Besides, helium urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies of authorities (MDAs) to equip their accusation managers for the upscale challenges of bringing the citizenry to bargain into authorities policies and programmes done grooming and instrumentality updates.

Speaking astatine a five-day capableness gathering grooming for the Development Communication Officers, Management Information Officers and different indispensable unit of RAAMP successful Calabar, the Cross River State capital, which ended astatine the weekend, Mohammed, an engineer, who was represented by the Cross River State Coordinator, Henry Onwe, stressed the import of engaging sentiment leaders.

“One of the reasons wherefore authorities is not trusted by the people, sometimes, is due to the fact that of deficiency of effectual strategies of disseminating information. For america successful RAAMP, we admit the request to learn, un-learn and re-learn to accomplishment up for expected task delivery.

“Here, gatekeepers and sentiment moulders and leaders should beryllium engaged by spokespersons to thrust location authorities policies, “he added.

In his insubstantial presumption connected “Agriculture Business, Agriculture Extension Services, Rural Development and Community Outreach,” a don with the University of Calabar, Dr Okpanachi Yalo, frowned connected the menace of nutrient insecurity successful the country, stressing that societal insecurity and deficiency of mechanisation are fewer of the causative factors of hunger. His words: “Participants agreed that corruption has been the bane of nutrient insecurity arsenic tin beryllium seen by assorted experiences shared.

“As connection managers of RAAMP, you request to archer your story, adjacent real-time, and re-tell it for effect. You cannot alteration if you arsenic a communicator are not informed. Government accusation handlers indispensable beryllium up of accusation successful their MDAs.”

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