89 issues identified in draft manuals for Nigeria’s $500m agricultural project

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has identified 89 issues requiring attraction successful the draught implementation manuals for Nigeria's $500 cardinal Sustainable Agricultural Value Chains for Growth, AGROW Project.

The Federal Director, Department of Development Partners Projects, Dr Emmanuel Akogun, disclosed this connected Monday successful Minna during the project's archetypal implementation enactment ngo and stakeholder consultation hosted by the Niger State government.

Akogun said the issues were identified successful the draught Project Implementation Manual and the Agricultural Development Matching Grant Facility Operations Manual and grouped into six large areas.

According to him, they see the travel of funds for matching grants, governance of the matching assistance facility, provisions of sub-grant and authorities agreements, eligibility criteria, results verification, and biology and societal risks and grievances.

He said the two-day consultation was organised to reappraisal the draught documents, code areas requiring clarification and guarantee the manuals were acceptable earlier they were finalised.

The disclosure comes arsenic the World Bank-backed task awaits the completion of implementation arrangements earlier it tin go effective.

The World Bank's Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader for AGROW, Mr Hardwick Tchale said the bank's Board approved the task successful March 2026, but the indispensable implementation arrangements were inactive being enactment successful place.

He...