Over sixty-nine thousand people from Urban and Semi-urban communities across thirteen local government areas in kwara state will be validated for the Covid-19 Rapid Response Register (RRR) project in the State


The State Survey Coordinator for  Health Information System Programme, Doctor Jonathan Mbachaga stated this today at a two Day  Training for Enumerators, held at State Ministry of Health, Ilorin.

Doctor Mbachaga said the project is organized by the Federal government in collaboration with World Bank to cushion the economic hardship faced by the vulnerable as a results of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The State Survey Coordinator called on the applicants of the programme to maintain their primary phone number used for registration for easy identification and location by the enumerators.


Earlier, the Ag. State Coordinator ,Kwara State Operating Coordinating Unit (SOCU),  Mr Taiye Iliasu said the training is to impact on the enumerators the prerequisites of effective data update and validation. 

Mr Iliasu, who was represented by the Head, Monitoring Evaluation, Mr Ibiyinka Stephen enjoyed the participants to take seriously what they have learnt during the training. He rmphasized that the  target people are the poor in urban and peri-urban locations in the State. He added that NASSCO had used electronic method of targeting to capture the applicants through deploymentof Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and SMS.

Iliasu disclosed that the second wave of the project will soon be rolled-out in State and it  will cover urban and Semi-urban communities in 61 wards across the 16 LGAs of State.

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