 Now, Oxfam has organized a two-day participatory budget preparation and community development plan workshop for directors, secretary and the chairman of the Mijika local government executive arm in Adamor State details in this report. The training, which is in collaboration with Oxfam and the Nigerian government, is aimed at enhancing social cohesion through community development planning and monitoring and evaluation framework for the council development. A two-day participatory budget preparation and CDP project inclusion workshop, the purpose of the workshop is one to strengthen the capacity of the local government administrative leadership directors across all departments in the local government around what participatory and inclusive governance is and also to also build their capacity on how they can include the priority needs of the people of Mijika local government into the 2024 budget, particularly capital projects that the local government is going to be implementing. It is part of a backdrop from the policy of the Adamor State government on citizens engagement and participatory planning policy through which as a development partner Oxfam is piloting in Mijika to gather the needs, the priority needs of the people of Mijika local government. Project officer of Oxfam, Samuel Lashon said the implementation of the project in Mijika is due to the presence of citizen engagement and participatory planning policy which was launched in June last year. It was battered based on the need for us to engage with the leadership of Mijika local government to support them in the development of their budget, that's the 2024 budget and see how they can include some of these priority needs that where the people of Mijika identify during the many engagement that we had in the past, especially the community development planning sessions that we had with different stakeholders in the past. That's why we are here. Executive Chairman Mijika Council, Honourable Amos Drambi who attended the workshop, affirmed the local government's commitment to implementing the plan. I was a pioneer local government selected for this exercise and I have enjoyed my people, the participant, the leader of the council, the councilors, directors, budgets and all the community leaders represented by Khan, the Muslim council, they are all here. The essence is to give validation to what they have done and I'm happy also that they are not just building capacities of the local citizens, even civil servants, you can see there was also a representative of the state from Ministry of Planning and Budget. Some of the participants include in the council leader of Mijika local government Honourable Mathias Timber pledged commitment to implementing the plan. It's a golden opportunity to Mijika rights because budget has not been participatory in planning it and this time around we have developed it into a document that it is community-based needs and community took part in the preparation right from their work level. The Damawa State Government is sure developing partners of protection of every project executed through monitoring and evaluation technology known as seat is an eye and ear project which has been put in place.