North East India Council for Relief and Development (NEICORD) conducted its 5th district forum meeting for Wokha district at the district planning machinery cell conference hall with volunteers and leaders from various villages, Wednesday.
Chairing the meeting, district coordinator, NEICORD, Wokha, Limaakum Jamir stated the purpose of the meeting was “community focused” in order to “receive maximum participation/ feedback from the stakeholders.”
The main topic of the meeting being “advocacy and the goal of advocacy”, Jamir explained that advocacy was the deliberate process, based on demonstrated evidence to directly and indirectly influence decision makers, stake holders and relevant audiences to support and implement the actions that contributes to the fulfilment of citizens/ beneficiary’s rights
The delegates also participated in the discussion by raising various questions with regard to the flagship programs, ways and means of implementation.
In North East India the program is being carried out at Goalpara and Cachar in Assam, Churachandpur and Chandel in Manipur, Lawngtlai in Mizoram, Ribhoi district in Meghalaya and in the state of Nagaland the project is being carried out only in Wokha district with NEICORD and Team Metamorphosis partnership.
It may be mentioned that to support the flagship programs of the Government of India several International and national organizations like Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) a Paris based organization, Nanda Talukdar Foundation (NTF), North East India Council on Relief and Development (NEICORD) and the Public Affairs Center (PAC) are working together for which the funding is being done by the European Union (EU).