As the bid continues for a WASH sector governance structure in Liberia, a WASH Legislative Caucus Secretariat has been established at the National Legislature. It is aimed to buttress efforts of development partners and WASH CSOs in putting mechanism that will improve the sector.
The establishment of the secretariat is also intended to assist members of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Legislative Caucus in coordinating their WASH Legislative agenda.
Nigeria's Federal Executive Council (FEC) yesterday directed the Federal Ministry of Health to step up surveillance activities against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council FEC, meeting chaired by Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Liberian Government has announced the holding of the 4th Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Joint Sector Review. The Joint Sector Review looks at challenges, successes and prospects in the WASH sector of Liberia.
The sector review this year is aimed at formulating a one plan for water, sanitation and hygiene across the country.
Speaking during a press conference Thursday, Deputy Public Works Minister for Rural Development, Benjamin Banto, said over the last decades Joint Sector Reviews have emerged as a way of coordinating stakeholders in a particular sector.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation (FAO) warns that lack of modern farming techniques threatens Africa’s food security.FAO representative Mr. Josef Kienzle handed down the warning at the second conservation agriculture conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
The FAO Leader of the Mechanisation task team, expressed concern that until the government adopted modern technologies of farming, the continent would continue to depend on food aid.He said, there was need for a paradigm shift on intensive crop production since the current methods applied could not meet the challenges of the new millennium.
The Acting President of the Association of Yam Farmers, Processors and Marketers in Nigeria, Prof. Simon Irtwange has implored the federal government and the National Assembly to boost yam exports, by accelerating the repeal of the Export Prohibition Act of 1989.
Professor Irtwange who made the call while speaking at a forum agriculture stakeholders in Abuja, emphasised that the Act which has continued to thwart the commitments of yam exporters from steering their business freely and putting out their yam export figures, also accounts for the drawbacks recorded in the diversification efforts and policies of the federal government.
