Recognising the significance of monitoring and evaluating the influence of the water-energy-food nexus (WEF) interventions on meals safety and useful resource use in agriculture, the Meals and Agriculture Group of the United Nations (FAO) has signed a letter of settlement with Dutch establishment, Free College Amsterdam to construct a framework tailor-made to the distinctive context of the Caribbean.
To make sure its sensible implementation, representatives from Free College performed a sequence of one-day trainings with beneficiary farmers, extension workers and technical officers of the ministries of agriculture in every of the taking part nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Jamaica, and St Kitts and Nevis.
Delivered by Dr Lia van Wesenbeeck and Dr Ben Sonneveld, director and deputy director of the Amsterdam Centre for World Meals Research, respectively, the coaching guided contributors by the framework within the context of accelerating resilience to climate-change.
Members acquired the basic ideas of monitoring and analysis, gaining an in-depth understanding of the Principle of Change, key efficiency indicators (KPIs), and rubrics. This data allowed attendees to be geared up with the abilities to guage WEF interventions and enterprise instances. The workshops served as a useful platform for the sharing of suggestions by farmers and ministry workers, making certain that the monitoring and analysis instrument regularly evolves and improves in alignment with the nations’ wants.
Coaching ‘extraordinarily useful’
Princess Lee, nationwide challenge coordinator, mentioned, “This coaching is extraordinarily useful for our challenge beneficiaries. It’s going to make sure that we’re monitoring the influence of the challenge’s actions and offers us the knowledge wanted to make sure we’re assembly targets.”
Karine Smith, challenge beneficiary, indicated, “This coaching made me perceive the rationale for the questions within the first survey. I see why the knowledge and monitoring and analysis is essential to crop manufacturing and meals safety in my nation.”
The ‘Mexico-CARICOM-FAO Initiative Cooperation for Adaptation and Resilience to Local weather Change within the Caribbean’ or ‘Resilient Caribbean Initiative’ goals at enhancing the resilience and adaptation to local weather change of agriculture, meals techniques and weak communities in Caribbean nations. The initiative advances water useful resource administration to extend agricultural productiveness. The challenge may even tackle the problem of the low productiveness of small-scale farming by offering technological innovation to agricultural producers.
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