WaterAid Nigeria has partnered with PepsiCo Foundation and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to hold Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) assets inventory validation exercise in Ikorodu North LCDA.
The exercise saw the gathering of Community Development Areas (CDA’s) representatives within Ikorodu North LCDA.
Speaking at the event, the Chairman of Ikorodu North LCDA, Mr Adebisi Banjo, thanked the organisers for the interventions in the LCDA.
Represented by the Executive Secretary to the LCDA, Mr Niyi Odugbese, the chairman expressed the belief that the validation exercise would achieve its goal.
Also speaking on WaterAid projects in Lagos, Grace Uwadiale, a representative of WaterAid, said that WaterAid focuses on access to good hygiene facilities and affordable water.
Uwadiale noted that WaterAid, with the help of its partners, has been intervening in various communities and LCDAs in the state; ensuring that everyone had access to decent toilet facilities.
She explained that in partnership with the state government, WaterAid strengthens the capacity of government institutions by providing WASH improvement facilities that are gender-sensitive and disability friendly.
She added that WaterAid had implemented six projects in Ikorodu North alone.
In his remarks, the CDC Chairman for Ikorodu North LCDA, Prince Adeniran Ogunbanwo, said that the validation exercise was important to get accurate statistics of WASH facilities within the LCDA.
Ogunbanwa said that the data obtained from the exercise would serve as a working tool for any partner that would be ready to intervene within the communities.
He called on the communities where development partners had earlier intervened with WASH improvement facilities to own it to make sure that were used sustainably.
