A team of three officers from the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) is on a week-long mission to conduct an assessment and verification of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) funded projects in East Guadalcanal Constituency (EGC).
The team is led by the Principal Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Timothy Carter, accompanied by Principal Communication & Public Relations Officer Andrew Fanasia Jr and Data Officer Margery Pitatamae along with the Constituency Development Officer (CDO) Dale Tati.
The monitoring team will visit most of the 2020 and 2021 CDF-funded projects and interview project beneficiaries to get their views on how CDF transformed their lives.
MRD Communications Officer will cover some of the stories of CDF-funded projects that impacted and change the lives of the ordinary rural people in EGC.
Constituency monitoring of CDF projects is part of the MRD’s ongoing activity on CDF-funded projects being implemented within the 50 constituencies.
M&E team leader Ms. Carter says relevant data and information will support the ministry in its responsibility to assess project status and the impact the fund (CDF) has on the lives of constituents.
“Not only is the data collected important, but gathering evidence on the ground by officers that constituencies utilized the funds for its intended purpose is paramount,” she adds.
Ms. Carter further states that the team will also use the opportunity to conduct awareness on the reforms that the ministry is undertaking as well as the roles and mandates of MRD and how MRD will collaborate with the Constituency Office to implement needed services in EGC.
CDFs are allocations of public funds provided to Constituencies to support rural development initiatives as per constituency development priorities.
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