Participants of he workshop in a group photograph.
By Nweze Anaga,
Abakaliki
The USAID Nigeria State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2State) Activity has ended a two-day Communication Strategy Implementation Progress Review workshop in Ebonyi State.
The workshop was to ensure continued improvement in governance communication strategy.
The USAID State2State Communication Specialist, Nneka Acholonu Egbuna, said that the workshop looked into how information officers had been using the communication strategy adopted in the state since 2020 to discharging their duties.
Nneka Egbuna maintained that the Ebonyi State Communication Strategy was co-developed by government and stakeholders to improve communications between State Ministries, Departments and Agency officials and citizens for the purpose of strengthening state government responsiveness to the needs and priorities of its citizens.
Also, the Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist with USAID State2State, Mrs. Ejiro Okotie, highlighted on Understanding Gender and Social Inclusion Mainstreaming in Communication and implored the Information and Public Relations Officers to always promote positivism and empowering narratives technique in their reportage and charged them to avoid stereotype and bias reportage.
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In a goodwill message, the Permeant Secretary, State Ministry of Information and Orientation, Mrs Patricia Nwobashi, thanked State2State for partrnering Ebonyi State, saying the state has benefited a lot.
She commended the State2State Communication Specialist, Nneka Egbuna, for her efforts in reshaping the activities of information officers in the state and charged the Information and Public Relations Officers in the workshop to pay attention to the teachings at the workshop as it would help them to write reports without putting the state in jeopardy.
In a presentation, the Director Information in the Ministry of Information in the state Ministry of Information, Mr. Anya Nkama, said that the presence of USAID State2State in Ebonyi has helped in developing working documents which have been guiding Information and Public Relations Officers in handling reputation management and making them active participants in the feedback mechanism which, inturn, helped the government to be more responsive to the needs of the people.
Appreciating the State2State for the workshop, participants including the Public Relations Officer in Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Mr Egede Sylverter, and Public Relations Officer in Ministry of Grants and Donor Agencies, Mr Chukwudi Nweke, said that he workshop actually repositioned them on how best to carryout their jobs and thanked the USAID Nigeria State2State for the opportunity given to them.
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