Osun CSDP Scorecard: Beneficiaries Testify As Agency Touches 1.3m Lives Across 419 Communities In Various Sectors

Some of the beneficiaries of Osun Agency for Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) in Osun State has applauded their benefactor for touches many lives through the intervention of CSDP in various communities across Osun.

The representatives of Gaa-fulani community and physically challenged people who disclosed this at a press briefing organized by CSDP on Thursday in Osogbo, shared their different testimony of how the agency came to their rescue to change many lives for better.

While reeling out the achievements, the General Manager of Osun State CSDP, Mrs Funmi Abokede said not less than one million, two hundred and sixty-six thousand people in four hundred and nineteen poor communities in Osun State have benefited from the interventions of Osun Agency for Community and Social Development Project, CSDP.

Abokede said the interventions of the agency cut across critical sectors like road, electricity, health, education water, environmental and sanitation, and social supports for the vulnerable in the state.

She said, the agency, which started its operations in 2009 is using Community Driven Development approach in its interventions, adding that the system has proved very productive, adding that the agency has disbursed N3.7bn naira sourced from the World Bank (N2.9bn) and the state government of Osun (N813m).

In her words; “the success of CSDP is in four divisions; they are Economic development leading to increase in employment, Infrastructural development like water, electricity and others, Human development as in education, health, social development and Environmental sustainability”.

Mrs Abokede stated the project’s challenges to be limited funding and low adoption of CDD (Community Driven Development) approach.

“CSDP interventions in some communities include: Construction and equipping of braille press centre which is the first of it’s kind in South-West, Nigeria; construction and equipping of Skill Acquisition Centre, Olorunda Local Government Construction of mini-bridge and reinforced retaining wall, Mowo Oba, Isokan Local Government.

“Others are redistribution of electricity and stringing of cables in Eyigun, Atakumosa East LG; drilling and reticulation of Motorized borehole in Apaso community, Ede, Ede north, building of student library in Ilobu, Irepodun local government, facilitation of transformers in Okinni, Egbedore local government and so many others”, she added.

Borehole at Ada-owode community

While backing her analysis with pictorial evidences of how the agency transformed many rural communities from different parts of the state, Abokede urged journalists to partner with the agency to ensure that its numerous projects are showcased to the world, adding that this would encourage others to partner with them in achieving more goals.