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Wolrec enhances project accountability in Nsanje

Women’s Legal Resources Centre (Wolrec) has empowered councillors, area development committees (ADCs), chiefs and village developments committees (VDCs) in Nsanje to engage communities to track projects implementation from start to completion.

The need to engage communities follows the missing of K91 million at the council during the 2016/17 fiscal year, a development which affected completion of some projects.

Nsanje District Council chairperson Andrew Piriminta said Worlec trained the duty bearers in how to track resources and provided them with resources to reach out to communities and explain why some projects stalled.

“As councillors, we lacked resources to travel around to meet people. But now we have reached out to them and they are aware of what is happening,” he said.

The ADC secretary Mervis Janken said in the past, the council did not engage them on the progress of projects, “but now it does”.

In an interview, Wolrec programmes manager Gift Mauluka said councillors, ADCs, VDCs and chiefs are the recognised governance structures at local level; hence, the need for them to know what is happening in the project cycle.

Some of the projects  affected due to the missing of K91 million were Nkapako Primary School in Traditional Authority (T/A) Ndamera, Fargo Market in T/A Chimombo, Marka Market in T/A Ndamera, a teacher’s house at Mlaka Primary School in T/A Tengani, an under-five clinic in T/A Tengani and others.

Some of these projects have resumed this year with new funding.

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