The Nasarawa State FADAMA Coordinating Office is responsible for implementation and delivery of the DLIs in the Result Area 2 of the Nasarawa Covid-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme with the mandate of intervening in the following areas:
- Delivery of Agricultural inputs and services to the poor and vulnerable farmers producing Rice, Maize, Cassava, Sesame and production of Poultry, sheep and goat and fisheries
- Labour-intensive Agricultural Infrastructure. The intervention in this area will involve re-instatement, rehabilitation and improvement of existing rural roads to enable farmers move their produce/products from the farm to the markets and transportation of farm inputs to the farm sites.
- Provision of Agricultural Assets for Production and mitigating food loss and waste. The Agricultural Assets to be provided will be assets that will increase capacity for food production and small-scale primary processing to mitigate food loss and waste and labour saving technology and energy-efficient technology.
- Upgrading Wet Markets to function safely. The programme shall mainly provide boreholes and overhead tanks for water supply in various points in the market such as toilets, upgrading of drainages, waste dump sites and sanitation services.
How beneficiaries are selected
The Community Facilitators sensitize communities to identify of existing Groups of poor and vulnerable members. The selected beneficiaries from these groups will be profiled and organized into Farmers Community Associations (FCAs). The profiling of beneficiaries will subsist for group registration for new members. Beneficiaries are selected based on a given set of criteria. The size of a Farmer's Community Association is projected to be poor and vulnerable members from 4 - 10 groups. The projected number of beneficiaries in a Farmers Community Association is between 40 to 70 individuals. Each member will belong to an existing economic interest group. The responsibilities of a member/group include the following:
- Identify, through a consultative process, priority support they require;
- Provide necessary information to the facilitators assigned to work on recovery proposal that deal with members’ priority concerns
- Carry out approved and agreed activities, with the member’s commitment to ensure sustainability of such activities.
- Keep records of activities and other relevant information for verification purposes.