The increase rate of poverty in Gombe state has reinforced the chain between malnutrition and the socio-economic development of people.
The Secretary to Gombe State Government, Prof. Ibrahim Njodi, said when a delegation from the Accelerating Nutrition Result in Nigeria (ARiN), project, led by Omotayo Adeyemi, the Director of Social Development, Federal Ministry of Finance and Budget Planning paid him a courtesy visit in Gombe, that the high rate of poverty is fuelling malnutrition in Gombe state.
However, the SSG noted that the Gombe State government is working assiduously to get a sustainable partnership to address the challenge.
The Special Adviser to the governor on Budget, Planning and Donor Coordination, Ishiyaku Mohammed, said ARiN is working across all sectors.
The production of 30,000 complimentary foods for moderately malnourished children by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is the first of its kind in the country.
Omotayo Adeyemi revealed that, the ARiN project is a five-year initiative aimed at improving nutrition in Nigeria, noting that Gombe is one of the implementing states.
The project is being piloted across Nafada, Balanga, and Yalmatu Deba in Gombe.
ARiN came in as an intervention project and Gombe happens to be one of the states for its implementation and the only state in the North East.
“We have been to the ministries of Education, Finance, the State House of Assembly to solicit for their support in the appropriation of nutrition budget line. The State House of Assembly has also promised to create a new committee on nutrition,” he added
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