EDO COOPERATIVE
FARMERS ADVOCATES STAKEHOLDERS POLICY INVOLVEMENT
By Eben Enasco Kingsley, Benin City
The need to strengthen and make agricultural policies
advocacy strategy work in Edo State received a major reawakening today in the
state capital following a capacity building workshop organized by the Edo State
Cooperative farmer Agency as part of its advocacy project on developing
Stakeholders agricultural policy involvement in the state.
The 2-day training program geared towards building policy
engagement themed; “to strengthen and enhance the capacity of Edo State
Cooperative Farmers Agency and its cluster members on advocacy and policy
engagement strategies to enable them engage stakeholders and government
functionaries to develop and implement Agricultural policy in Edo state’’, had
collaborators from the Ministry of Agriculture, Bank of Agric, Representatives
from Oredo Council, Members of the State Union of Journalists, NGO’s, CSO’s and
other relevant agricultural stakeholders in the state.
The organizer and Chairman of the group, Mr. Nosa Amayo, noted that in such a time
when the nation had been hit with recession, it has become imperative to put
the state agricultural policies in place to fathom and improve its budgetary in
the state, hence the advocacy.
“The purpose of the workshop is that when we develop agric
policy that will probably be adopted by the government, it will help create
employment for the youths, alleviate poverty in the society and more so, farm
produce become cheap to buy in the market. Youths could through this policy
advocacy strategy become independent thereby crime is averted’’, he stated.
Similarly, the facilitator and Managing Director Mazik
Resources Int’l, ZIK IGBADI, while presenting his findings and recommendations
from his research on identifying Stakeholders, advocacy targets and partners,
quipped that, the stakeholders stand a chance to benefit when they participate
more on policies making and implementation.
