The coordinator, Anambra State Operations Coordinating Unit (SOCU), Engineer Bede Okoli, has expressed the agency’s determination to provide accurate data of the poor and vulnerable households in the state for development partners as well as other interested entities and persons wishing to plan or execute projects.
Okoli, who disclosed this in Awka, the state capital, said SOCU through its State Social Register, had been providing data to ministries, agencies and individuals, adding that as at August 31, 2020, it generated a total data of 99,463 poor and vulnerable households and 433,188 individuals including males and females.
He revealed that Operations Coordinating Unit (SOCU), Anambra state, was established in 2016 as part of requirements for the state to key into the National Social Safety-Net Programme (NASSP) of the federal government.
Engineer Okoli maintained that the primary role of SOCU is to build a social register of Poor and Vulnerable Households (PVHHs) as well as coordinate all the Social Safety-Nets programmes in the state.
According to him, SOVU is responsible for building the social register through constituted staff from Local Governments LGAs selected based on state poverty map (2 per senatorial zone).
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