Friday, 5 September 2014

World Bank Calls for Domestication of $500m Erosion, Watershed Project



The World Bank has called for domestication of the $500 million Erosion and Watershed Management Project, currently being financed by the bank. The bank's Country Director to Nigeria, Marie Francois Marie-Nelly stated this Thursday in Abuja at the launch of the  Erosion and Watershed Management Project, geared towards mitigating environmental degradation in some selected states of the federation, mostly, erosion affected states. Marie-Nelly called for the need to seek lasting solution to the menace of erosion among the participating states of Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu, Abia, Edo and Cross Rivers States. The bank direcfor harped on the imperative of local ownership and domestication of the project and commended those implementing it for their innovative strategy that is based on both reclamation and control.
Thisday Newspaper


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