Torit State Ministry of Physical Infrastructure with Norwegian Church Aid or NCA support conducted two-day training to county Water, sanitation and Hygiene or WASH officers to enable them implement their activities.
According to Radio Emmanuel, the training focuses on monitoring and evaluation, report and recovery cost of WASH activities.
Speaking to, the director for water and sanitation in the ministry Simon Loliang on Thursday said the course targeted all counties of Torit State to enable them report using satellite.
He disclosed that some counties did not turn up due to mobility and poor roads respectively
Loliang added that the training is basically for new appointed staff to be accountable for monitoring all water points.
‘The actual fact is that because there are some staff who are newly appointed by the national government and of course they had to be trained for their accountability, for monitoring all water points to see into it that when the borehole is broken they should have to repair it and the report of that repair’, he noted.
Meanwhile Elizabeth Elle, one of the participants, said the training helps them to manage hygiene and sanitation.
‘This training is actually going to help us in many ways more especially within the entire country it based on WASH also about the sanitation in our homes whether we are washing our hands after visiting the latrines or not’, she applauded.
Another participant, Paulino Atari, said the training help equip him with knowledge so that he can work personally.
‘To keep me with knowledge, when I have knowledge I shall be working as a person without consulting anyone then have to be free man have to bring reports to the ministry so the ministry has to be aware what is going out in counties’, he said.
The speakers made the remarks on Thursday in Torit.