THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Nigeria Country Office, is to spend $64,200,000 on promotion of agriculture, food security, poverty eradication and job creation through the sector.
This was disclosed in the FAO’s Programme Framework for Nigeria (2013 to 2017) presented to the National Council on Agricultural and Rural Development (NCARD) by the Country Representative of FAO, Ms Louise Lobisa Setshwaelo.
FAO Nigeria Country Office, in a close partnership with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and with Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR), Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv), National Planning Commission (NPC) and other relevant stakeholders, has prepared the Country Programme Framework (CPF) to guide its work in Nigeria.
The CPF for Nigeria describes FAO’s medium term assistance priorities and results, derived from nationally defined priorities and objectives, to be achieved over the five-year period of the country’s programming cycle (2013-2017).
The FAO – Nigeria CPF is aligned to the national development objectives outlined in national overall agricultural and rural development policy documents set out in the government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) and the Vision 20:2020.
The FAO, since the opening of its representation in Nigeria in 1978, has been providing an unabated support to the country providing technical assistance and advice in the formulation and implementation of policies, strategies, programmes and projects in food, agriculture and natural resources aimed at improving food security and nutrition and reducing poverty in a broad-based, equitable and sustainable manner. In providing this assistance, FAO has always focused on enhancing the livelihood of smallholders, who form the majority of the rural poor, in a way that is technically, economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.
Ms Setshwaelo said: “The CPF includes support in improvement of national food and nutrition security, with the focus given to enhancing the national capacities – Government institutions and their partners, including the private sector for development and implementation of evidence-based and gender responsive policies, strategies and programmes addressing food insecurity and malnutrition for vulnerable groups in targeted states, as well as managing food safety and quality to safeguard the health and well-being for all Nigerians.
“It incorporates support for agricultural policy and regulatory framework, with the focus given to inclusive and evidence-based development of policies, strategies and regulatory frameworks for agriculture and natural resources management and their institutionalisation at the federal level and in selected states.
This means enhancing the skills of policy analysts in using the improved tools and methodologies, provision of technical advisory services for policy development, monitoring and evaluation, enhancing the capacities of national and state institutions in producing reliable and timely agricultural statistics; strengthening agricultural bio-security systems – harmonised monitoring and reporting, inspection protocols and standards; reinforcement of regulatory provisions and guidelines for management of grazing reserves and stocks.”
She added the CPF would also support the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) for priority value chains (crops, livestock, fisheries) and promotion of decent employment for youth and women with the focus given to creating an enabling policy and institutional environment in which producers, in targeted areas, could adopt practices that increase agricultural productivity and production, reduce post-harvest loses and have increased access to markets, and opportunities for generation of youth and women employment.
Also included are support for sustainable management of natural resources and mitigating effects of climate change; support for improved disaster risk reduction and emergency management, with the focus given to enhancing the institutional capacity for federal and selected states in development of a national strategy for early warning and emergency response in agriculture; disaster preparedness and contingency plans and its adoption and in regular monitoring of food and nutrition security.
Setshwaelo said: “The total estimated resource/financial requirements for the implementation of the CPF outcomes is US $64,200,000, out of which FAO already has commitments of US $11,928,990 through the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP), global, regional and sub-regional projects, as well as government funded projects. The funding gap of amounting to US $52,271,010 will be covered through mobilisation of resources from FAO TCP resources; development partners and the Government of Nigeria (Federal and States).
This was disclosed in the FAO’s Programme Framework for Nigeria (2013 to 2017) presented to the National Council on Agricultural and Rural Development (NCARD) by the Country Representative of FAO, Ms Louise Lobisa Setshwaelo.
FAO Nigeria Country Office, in a close partnership with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and with Federal Ministry of Water Resources (FMWR), Federal Ministry of Environment (FMEnv), National Planning Commission (NPC) and other relevant stakeholders, has prepared the Country Programme Framework (CPF) to guide its work in Nigeria.
The CPF for Nigeria describes FAO’s medium term assistance priorities and results, derived from nationally defined priorities and objectives, to be achieved over the five-year period of the country’s programming cycle (2013-2017).
The FAO – Nigeria CPF is aligned to the national development objectives outlined in national overall agricultural and rural development policy documents set out in the government’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) and the Vision 20:2020.
The FAO, since the opening of its representation in Nigeria in 1978, has been providing an unabated support to the country providing technical assistance and advice in the formulation and implementation of policies, strategies, programmes and projects in food, agriculture and natural resources aimed at improving food security and nutrition and reducing poverty in a broad-based, equitable and sustainable manner. In providing this assistance, FAO has always focused on enhancing the livelihood of smallholders, who form the majority of the rural poor, in a way that is technically, economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.
Ms Setshwaelo said: “The CPF includes support in improvement of national food and nutrition security, with the focus given to enhancing the national capacities – Government institutions and their partners, including the private sector for development and implementation of evidence-based and gender responsive policies, strategies and programmes addressing food insecurity and malnutrition for vulnerable groups in targeted states, as well as managing food safety and quality to safeguard the health and well-being for all Nigerians.
“It incorporates support for agricultural policy and regulatory framework, with the focus given to inclusive and evidence-based development of policies, strategies and regulatory frameworks for agriculture and natural resources management and their institutionalisation at the federal level and in selected states.
This means enhancing the skills of policy analysts in using the improved tools and methodologies, provision of technical advisory services for policy development, monitoring and evaluation, enhancing the capacities of national and state institutions in producing reliable and timely agricultural statistics; strengthening agricultural bio-security systems – harmonised monitoring and reporting, inspection protocols and standards; reinforcement of regulatory provisions and guidelines for management of grazing reserves and stocks.”
She added the CPF would also support the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) for priority value chains (crops, livestock, fisheries) and promotion of decent employment for youth and women with the focus given to creating an enabling policy and institutional environment in which producers, in targeted areas, could adopt practices that increase agricultural productivity and production, reduce post-harvest loses and have increased access to markets, and opportunities for generation of youth and women employment.
Also included are support for sustainable management of natural resources and mitigating effects of climate change; support for improved disaster risk reduction and emergency management, with the focus given to enhancing the institutional capacity for federal and selected states in development of a national strategy for early warning and emergency response in agriculture; disaster preparedness and contingency plans and its adoption and in regular monitoring of food and nutrition security.
Setshwaelo said: “The total estimated resource/financial requirements for the implementation of the CPF outcomes is US $64,200,000, out of which FAO already has commitments of US $11,928,990 through the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP), global, regional and sub-regional projects, as well as government funded projects. The funding gap of amounting to US $52,271,010 will be covered through mobilisation of resources from FAO TCP resources; development partners and the Government of Nigeria (Federal and States).
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