Kapit District Council holds Local Agenda 21 event at Uma Kelap, Sungai Asap
KAPIT: The Kapit District Council ( KDC) is holding its first Local Agenda 21 programme for the year at Uma Kelap, Sungai Asap.
KDC walikota Philimon Nuing is leading a delegation of over 30 councillors and staff for the three-day programme, which ends today.
“With such a programme implemented by the council, it will enable community participation in a local government led, communitywide, and participatory effort to establish a comprehensive action strategy for environmental protection, economic prosperity and community well-being under the jurisdiction of the local council,” he said.
He explained that Local Agenda 21 is a process that facilitates sustainable development at community level.
“It is an approach, based on participation which respects the social, cultural, economic and environmental needs of the present and future citizens of a community in all its diversity and which relates that community and its future to the regional, national and international community of which it is a part of.”
Activities include a colouring contest for school children, beadwork competition, preventive fogging, and a gotong-royong project to clean the longhouse compound.
The Health Department and Natural Resources and Environment Board also conducted a talk.