{"id":17655,"date":"2026-06-20T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/afdb-commends-sard-sc-project-as-one-of-the-banks-best-managed-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:08:35","slug":"afdb-commends-sard-sc-project-as-one-of-the-banks-best-managed-projects","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/afdb-commends-sard-sc-project-as-one-of-the-banks-best-managed-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"AfDB commends SARD-SC project as one of the Bank\u2019s best managed projects"},"content":{"rendered":"Le\u00a0SARD-SC project<\/u>\u00a0funded by the AfDB has come out tops once again, as the members of the Bank\u2019s Supervisory mission have unequivocally described the\u00a0 project as one of the Bank\u2019s\u00a0 best managed\u00a0 projects.\u00a0This was the verdict of the\u00a0AFDB<\/a>\u00a0officials who recently undertook the sixth supervisory mission to the IITA\/SARD-SC project from 29 November \u2013 4 December, in Ibadan. The team, led by Ibrahim Amadou, Task Manager, and accompanied by Usman Mohammed, Disbursement Officer; Jaffar Abba, Procurement Officer; and Olufemi Ojo-Fajuyi, Financial Management Consultant, also commended the\u00a0 project team for efficient project implementation and for achieving significant outputs in project countries.\n
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SARD-SC staff and AfDB officials during the visit to IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nWhile welcoming the AfDB officials to IITA, Chrys Akem, Project Coordinator,\u00a0explained that the\u00a0 purpose of the supervision\u00a0visit was \u201cto\u00a0evaluate the project\u2019s\u00a0 progress and how far it has carried out the Bank\u2019s\u00a0recommendations and also to proffer solutions to issues which may have arisen from the last Mid Term Review held in May 2015.\u201d\n\nDuring the course of the mission, the team\u00a0paid a courtesy visit to\u00a0Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>, IITA Director General, and briefed him on the Mission\u2019s terms of reference. The DG expressed his pleasure on the reported progress of the SARD-SC project. He assured the team of\u00a0 the\u00a0readiness of IITA\u2019s\u00a0senior management\u00a0to\u00a0do all that is necessary to ensure that\u00a0 the\u00a0project\u00a0delivers\u00a0on its planned\u00a0outputs and impacts.\n\nThe members of the\u00a0mission listened to project implementation presentations and held several discussions with the various\u00a0management and project implementation teams from the executing agency (IITA) and the implementing institutions (AfricaRice<\/a>\u00a0and ICARDA). All of the staff of the Project Implementation Unit of the three key implementing institutions (IITA,\u00a0AfricaRice<\/a>\u00a0et\u00a0ICARDA)<\/a>\u00a0were present at the supervisory mission.\n\nThe mission activities kicked off with\u00a0 presentations by the project Commodity Specialists:\u00a0Marie Yomeni<\/a>\u00a0for cassava,\u00a0Sam Ajala<\/a>\u00a0for maize, Sidi Sanyang for rice, and Solomon Assefa for wheat;\u00a0Issaka Amadou<\/a>, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist on M&E updates; Seyi Fashokun on project accounts; and Zulfawu Yahaya on procurement.\n\nThe presentations showed progress on all the commodity components since the medium-term review in May as well as procurement and financial execution, followed by discussions with the Commodity Specialists and other officers on various aspects of project implementation and outputs.\n\nThe team made\u00a0some key observations on the project implementation status, especially their satisfaction on\u00a0significant improvements in project\u00a0implementation\u00a0across all the commodity value\u00a0chains of cassava, maize, rice, and wheat; as well as within the different components (technology and innovation generation, technology and\u00a0innovation\u00a0dissemination, capacity\u00a0building and\u00a0project management). They also observed\u00a0that efforts to achieve the various targets set for the different indicators show that the project\u00a0is on track. While rounding off the visit, Ibrahim Amadou, Project Task manager, commended the SARD-SC project \u201cas one of the best managed projects of the AfDB.\u201d He\u00a0therefore urged the \u201cProject Management Unit and\u00a0project team\u00a0members\u00a0to\u00a0 continue to work hard and ensure the project\u00a0has\u00a0transformational impact on\u00a0 beneficiaries to\u00a0earn a\u00a0second phase.\u201d\n\nThe disbursement rate of the project, they noted is currently 63.55% which, the Bank officials said was a good rate for such a complex project at its current level of implementation.\u00a0They expected this to increase further as the project draws to its end in 2017.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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