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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Local news - 31.05.2011 - By Philip Kodet and Daniel Edaan - SOCIAL AUDITORS STAKEHOLDERS TRAINING AT NAPEILILIM.




Fifty community members were early today trained at Napeililim sub- location of Loima district. The training which was organized by the justice and peace commission of the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar was facilitated by deputy coordinator Mr. Christopher Losiapat. In the training Mr. Losiapat focused on governance and accountability. The training was aimed at sensitizing the community based social auditors on the importance of social auditing, collecting data regarding to the public funded projects, linking the community with the justice and peace office in the matters regarding to all public funds allocated to their area and finalizing documentation of the data collected from the field regarding the public funds in the area. According to Losiapat the community has to be aware of the funded projects and also check and make follow-ups in the implementation of community projects. He also informed the community of their rights to ask how the funds have been used. Denis Ekaru, Mary Ngala Moriita and Etot Martin were the trained community based Social Auditors who will help in mobilizing the community in acquiring the basic information.

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