The Niger Delta Growth Fee has pledged readiness to associate with the United Nations Institute for Coaching and Analysis, to seek out options to the environmental challenges hampering the efforts to develop the Niger Delta area.
The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, acknowledged this throughout a courtesy go to by the staff chief within the Technique, Planning, and Coordination Part of the United Nations Satellite tv for pc Centre, Mr. Olivier Van Damme, on the fee’s headquarters in Port Harcourt.
This was contained in a press release issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday by the NDDC Director of Company Affairs, Seledi Thompson-Wakama, and despatched to newsmen.
Dr Ogbuku, who was represented by the NDDC Government Director, Tasks, Sir Victor Antai, stated it was very auspicious to work with UNITAR, which had the required capability within the coaching and empowerment to deal with environmental challenges.
The NDDC MD urged the UN Satellite tv for pc Centre hosted on the UNITAR to proffer long-term options to environmental challenges akin to flooding going through the Niger Delta area as a result of momentary options weren’t sustainable.
He stated, “We’re prepared for partnership find an enduring answer to the perennial flood in our area, noting that fixing the flood challenges of the Niger Delta area couldn’t be addressed by the NDDC alone because it known as for collaboration between the Fee and different improvement companies.
“At NDDC, our focus isn’t just on constructing bodily infrastructures but in addition growing human capital and defending our surroundings.”
Additionally talking, the UNOSAT technical staff chief, Mr. Olivier Van Damme, stated that the mission of the UN Satellite tv for pc Centre was to advertise evidence-based decision-making for peace, safety, and resilience, utilizing geospatial info applied sciences.
He stated, We’re engaged in environmental conservation together with flood administration. We’re targeted on growing capability. We work with our companions to supply Synthetic Intelligence- enhanced flood monitoring methods.”
“We assist governmental, non-governmental, and worldwide organisations in enhancing their capacities by providing customised studying options that match their respective wants.”
In his remarks, the NDDC Director, Environmental Management and Safety, Engr. Onuoha Obeka, stated that the fee was regularly searching for methods to reinforce the event course of within the Niger Delta area, noting
“We would like to have the ability to use information to foresee catastrophe and plan to mitigate the consequences.
“A collaboration with UNOSAT can even assist us to coach NDDC employees in that important space.”
Obeka stated {that a} collaboration with UNOSAT would assist the NDDC to combine and analyse geospatial info in a understandable and easy-to-use format, to strengthen catastrophe and local weather resilience, in addition to assist sustainable improvement insurance policies.
