AS part of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development, SDG, Goal 6 in the area of Water, the Borehole Drillers Association of Nigeria, BODAN, is set to collaborate with United Nations Children Education Fund, UNICEF, to ensure that Nigerians at all level have access to what it calls WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
Speaking after an interactive session with the UNICEF Chief WASH coordinator, Kanann Nadar, the President, BODAN, Francis Uzoma, explained that the essence of the interaction was to ensure an establish relationship with UNICEF concerning effective collaboration in terms of service delivery to UNICEF by constructing quality boreholes.
Uzoma said collaboration as this will also be beneficial in terms of capacity building and having a kind of synergy that will be beneficial to not only UNICEF and BODAN but to the country at large.
He said: “The whole essence of this interaction is to see how we can broaden areas of collaboration so that the areas of borehole drilling that we offer to UNICEF and other organisations can effectively done, even in the aspect of capacity building and having a kind of synergy that will benefit the industry.
“The response is quite impressive and positive so we are hoping that in no distant time this discussion we had will be implemented. “UNICEF is ready to collaborate with us because we are stakeholder, they are ready to collaborate with us in the areas of trainings, areas of project implementation and monitoring.”
In his response, the UNICEF chief WASH, Kanann Nadar, said UNICEF WASH has been into water provision for the Nigerians and most of the borehole project that UNICEF have done were executed BODAN members.
According to Nadar, the association have come to collaborate with UNICEF WASH and seeking for capacity to be improved, so that they can continue to deliver quality services in line with the drilling code of practice that the federal government have introduced across the nation.
Speaking after an interactive session with the UNICEF Chief WASH coordinator, Kanann Nadar, the President, BODAN, Francis Uzoma, explained that the essence of the interaction was to ensure an establish relationship with UNICEF concerning effective collaboration in terms of service delivery to UNICEF by constructing quality boreholes.
Uzoma said collaboration as this will also be beneficial in terms of capacity building and having a kind of synergy that will be beneficial to not only UNICEF and BODAN but to the country at large.
He said: “The whole essence of this interaction is to see how we can broaden areas of collaboration so that the areas of borehole drilling that we offer to UNICEF and other organisations can effectively done, even in the aspect of capacity building and having a kind of synergy that will benefit the industry.
“The response is quite impressive and positive so we are hoping that in no distant time this discussion we had will be implemented. “UNICEF is ready to collaborate with us because we are stakeholder, they are ready to collaborate with us in the areas of trainings, areas of project implementation and monitoring.”
In his response, the UNICEF chief WASH, Kanann Nadar, said UNICEF WASH has been into water provision for the Nigerians and most of the borehole project that UNICEF have done were executed BODAN members.
According to Nadar, the association have come to collaborate with UNICEF WASH and seeking for capacity to be improved, so that they can continue to deliver quality services in line with the drilling code of practice that the federal government have introduced across the nation.
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