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The Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency mandate is to create and foster sustainable projects targeted at the rural communities and urban slums. These efforts are targeted towards creating a lasting and sustainable impact in these communities. If the RSSDA have impacted your community, please go ahead and share with us how and if we haven't also tell us. We welcome your comments...

The Rives State Sustainable Development Agency (RSSDA) has said that it is embarking on a world-class Agro farm project tagged Songhai Rivers Initiative to boost the state’s agricultural and economic sector.

The Chief Executive Officer, Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency, Mr Noble Pepple who disclosed this last Thursday during a media roundtable with journalists in Port Harcourt said the project would be completed in August and commissioned in September this year.

Pepple opined that the Songhai project when completed would be a major Agro-Allied project in the state adding that the agency was doing its bet to ensure that the project proves a success.

- The TIDE, Jun 16th, 2010

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For us, Sustainable Development is holistic socio-economic transformation of the rural areas of Rivers State with a long term horizon,which ensures that the needs of the rural dwellers are met through results-oriented and professionally supported programs and projects.We believe community projects must meet current socio-economic needs, grow in scope and impact over at least one generation (15-20 years) and become adaptable to changing development needs into the foreseeable future. RSSDA advocates that such an outcome should be powered by the engine of economic production and income-earning by the largest possible number of currently poor, unemployed and under-employed people of Rivers State.In practical terms, we envision the core of sustainable development as representing the emergence of viable, self-adjusting, grassroots level economic activities, which will have active commercial linkages with urban markets in Rivers State, across the Niger Delta, in Nigeria as a whole and internationally.

This is the actual development of the community system in such a way that people are encouraged to visit the communities.