Blessing Ekwere submitted a monthly report for November 2023 as the Field Supervisor for Zone B Ward 5 Uquo in Esit Eket, AkwaIbom. Activities in the reporting period included ongoing savings and loans, routine supervision visits, visits from the livelihood team to collect revolving grant forms, and visits from the state team to check project monitoring data. Challenges included a lack of women opening bank accounts, high transportation costs, and low attendance at some meetings due to issues with the revolving grant program. The report concluded that understanding of the Nigeria for Women project has been distinct.
Blessing Ekwere submitted a monthly report for November 2023 as the Field Supervisor for Zone B Ward 5 Uquo in Esit Eket, AkwaIbom. Activities in the reporting period included ongoing savings and loans, routine supervision visits, visits from the livelihood team to collect revolving grant forms, and visits from the state team to check project monitoring data. Challenges included a lack of women opening bank accounts, high transportation costs, and low attendance at some meetings due to issues with the revolving grant program. The report concluded that understanding of the Nigeria for Women project has been distinct.
Blessing Ekwere submitted a monthly report for November 2023 as the Field Supervisor for Zone B Ward 5 Uquo in Esit Eket, AkwaIbom. Activities in the reporting period included ongoing savings and loans, routine supervision visits, visits from the livelihood team to collect revolving grant forms, and visits from the state team to check project monitoring data. Challenges included a lack of women opening bank accounts, high transportation costs, and low attendance at some meetings due to issues with the revolving grant program. The report concluded that understanding of the Nigeria for Women project has been distinct.
NAME OF PERSON DESIGNATION/TITLE STATE/LGA OF Tel No. /OFFICERS LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSIGNMENT 07038487752 BLESSING EKWERE FIELD SUPERVISOR AkwaIbom/ EsitEket
ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUT
ACTIVITY 1: SAVINGS AND LOANS ONGOING
OUTPUT 1: During my routine supervision to all the WAGs the
Local Government Area, I noticed that the turn-up for WAG meetings has reduced due to the fact that in some WAG group, women complained about the issues of revolving grant.
ACTIVITY II: ROUTINE SUPERVISION
OUTPUT: Ongoing round for supervision in the local government area savings and loan is ongoing without any difficulty, and the training is well cascaded to the women accordingly.
ACTIVITY III: LIVELIHOOD TEAM VISITATION
OUTPUT: On Thursday 12th October, the livelihood team unit visited EsitEket to sight, correct and collection of revolving fund grant forms was successfully done and those (WF) who finished were asked to collect more forms to fast trade the payment.
ACTIVITY IV: STATE TEAM VISITATION
OUTPUT: On Sunday 15th October the state team visited Esit Eket to check whether what the WFs imputed on the PMIS is correct or not and also effect the correction.
ACTIVITY V: LIVELIHOOD TEAM VISITATION
OUTPUT: On Thursday 19th October, the state team revolving grant unit visited EsitEket again for collection of revolving grant forms from those that are through and those that were through were asked to submit through their WAGSO and to the LFs. CHALLENGE LESSONS LEABRNED SOLUTIONS Lack of account opening It helps women to manage More awareness should be their fund. created for women. High cost of transportation It helps in terms of No good turn-up for some exposure. meetings as a result of revolving grant issue
CONCLUSION: The understandingsextended so far on Nigeria for women project is
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