Poverty continues to grip the majority of our people in its tentacles. The extent and severity of this scourge requires that we maximise our poverty eradication interventions in a quest to yield the desirable impact in the lives of our people. The situation, as exacerbated by the economic slump of the recent past, has posed numerous challenges which will not, essentially, avert our attention from the important task of fighting poverty and underdevelopment.

I am happy to report that the National Development Agency (NDA) continues to contribute towards some of government’s priorities such as ensuring that there is creation of decent work and sustainable livelihoods as well as rural development in the form of food security in many of our impoverished communities.