WHO WE ARE

The office of the Special Adviser to The Executive Governor of imo state on Poverty Alleviation was created with the aim of providing various empowerment programs to the youth, women and vulnerable groups in the society, and provide intervention on basic/primary issues, geared towards value re-orientation and integration.

WHERE WE ARE

With the Recovery agenda of shared prosperity government and the policy trust of the Bureau coupled with the law that established the Bureau, the Imo State House of Assembly law no 2 of year 2000, the poverty Alleviation has concentrated her programs/activities in the twenty seven (27) local government areas of imo state. Most governments had thought that the only poor and unemployed youths are those that graduated from tertiary institutions, forgetting those that did not go to school or ended up in primary, and those who graduated from secondary schools and then the poor rural women. The Bureau beams its poverty Alleviation search light on these target group and redirects them to a productive venture through skills acquisition training empowerment, Agricultural activities, micro-credit and welfare scheme. All these are accomplished through the hard work of our project/programme coordinating personnel domiciled at each of the twenty seven(27) local Government Areas of the state. These personnel are very functional in data collection. Haven analysed the data, the Bureau now maintains a data base of poverty indicators. This has helped the Bureau to reach to all corners of the twenty seven (27) local government Areas, and kept them ever ready in assisting Imo State Government in the distribution of any materials that is aimed at getting to the grass roots, especially when humanitarian in nature.poverty is of multidimension, hence multifaceted. It includes dignity rights deprivation, the inability to meet up with one's social responsibilities, and or lack of opportunity to access the common resource. By the National Policy on poverty eradication , it is a dynamic process of socio-economic and political deprivation, which affects communities via individual households, resulting in lack of access to basic necessities of life such as food, shelter, cloths in addition to good health services, employment, education etc.

THE SHARED PROSPERITY PHILOSOPHY OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION

The primary concern of the present Government in the recent times is to draw up a design that will be an enduring strategy aimed at alleviating the poverty of all poor IMO CITIZENS no matter where they are located. The poverty alleviation in line with the SHARED PROSPERITY PHILOSOPHY of His Excellency, DIST.SEN.HOPE UZODIMMA (ONWA) will continue to explore new ideas on how to intensify partnership programs with public and private sectors (PPP). In the strategic efforts to attracts funds, for addressing poverty issues in the state , the poverty alleviation Bureau has established contacts for PPP within the state , within Nigerian and internationally too. In the state the Bureau partners with some sister agencies in the areas of Agricultural development/empowerment and micro credit schemes for youths, women and other interest groups. In furtherance to enlarging our pool of funds available, we are going into PPP with Federal ministries like ministry of Humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation etc. This is to enable the bureau generate employment, among the youths, engage more women and other interest groups in small scale businesses. Simply put, poverty alleviation Bureau (PAB) is the state government Agency that gives the poor hope, as they are integrated in to the state economic development programs.