General overview of the workshop
On L-PRES Project Beneficiary mapping and cluster formation.
The workshop started with participants introduction from the 20 states across the Country. The National Technical Officer charged all the participants to take component 2 activities seriously as it is the fulcrum by which other components revolve, he also charged the relevant officers that will implement components 2 activities such as Value chain officer, Animal husbandry officer, Extension Service Officer, M&E etc to ensure that they target those that have been into the livestock business for long (organic groups/ producers), that it will be inappropriate targeting the major cause of project failures in the past and we should avoid it like plague.
He also noted that facilities should be cited where there are enough producer groups that will make optimal use of it that is probably within the cluster farms. That siting of facilities should not be geographically based or politically motivated but it should be need driven. That if you site your facilities appropriately there will be no worry for security because people using it will help secure them. Such common facilities include aggregation centres, processing facilities, farmers field school and so on..
He also highlighted the need for the establishment of innovative platforms by the various participating states.
Mr Eidris Abiola Ajimobi the SSA to the president on livestock development gave a good will message from the presidency and declared the government preparedness to support the activities of L-PRES Nigeria
Also Dr Gabriel Ugwu the national animal husbandry officer gave a presentation on the step-by- step way of cluster formation, beneficiary profiling and mapping out.
During the session he highlighted the need for stakeholders engagement and productive alliance during the process and charged various states to articulate the necessary conditions for formalizing/ recognising producer groups as eligible., He also highlighted on need identification and categorisation of value chain along production line/nodes.
The Review of Adamawa State profiling platform/ data was used for reference And the NPC urged various states to up their profiling and mapping out activities, stating that the project targets to profile 1,430,000 beneficiaries on the overall and various states should profile not less than 30,000 real livestock farmers on the average. There was also a presentation by the national GBV officer on gender inclusiveness and support for people with disabilities and youths while Various states were given the login details for the national profiling database backend and were charged to emulate Adamawa State on how they analysed and presented their profiled data information, the process continued as most states worked on their own state profile data base on clusterization, grouping and analysis. Extension Officer,GBV, SPCs stayed through the weekend to finalise their training while other officers were dismissed.
General overview of the workshop On L-PRES Project Beneficiary mapping and cluster formation
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