FCT FADAMA-CARES holds training for beneficiaries

The FCT FADAMA-CARES has organised a day’s pre-disbursement capacity building training for its Batch B beneficiaries.

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the training in Gwagwalada Area Council on Tuesday, the Coordinator of FCT FADAMA-CARES, Mr Usman Adangara, said the training was designed to build the capacity of participants in the areas of group dynamics, book/record keeping, environmental management, procurement and protect monitoring/evaluation.

He said the FCT FADAMA-CARES programme, which is being implemented using the World Bank programme for results financing model, was equally leveraging on the community-driven approach in financing a community-level programme investment.

He said the objective was to increase food security and safe functioning of food supply.

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In his speech, the FCT Mandate Secretary for Agriculture and Rural Development, Lawan Kolo Geidam, his Permanent Secretary, Mrs Grace Adayilo, said FCT FADAMA-CARES had successfully disbursed grants to 7,383 beneficiaries from 109 farming community associations across the FCT.