Zero Hunger Project team trained finance and communication officers from Institut Togolais de Recherches Agronomiques (ITRA), L’Institut de Conseil et d’Appui Technique (ICAT)and the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, from 11 to 13 April. The purpose of the training was to ensure the stakeholders were equipped with the necessary skills to implement the project (financially and technically) according to the donor’s requirements.

The training took place at the ITRA Office Complex. It began with a focus on financial reporting. The participants learned how to ensure financial transparency and accountability, introduce the donor financial reporting system to the partners, and facilitate compliance with Internal control and audit, to avoid ineligible transactions.

The following day centered on technical reporting with the communication officers from the three organizations in attendance. The technical reporting covered qualities of a good technical report, the importance of technical reports for project success, IFAD project technical report structure, deadlines for submitting project reports, common excuses for late reporting, relevant disclosure clause in IITA/Ministry of Agriculture’s sub-agreement.
On the last day, the technical team from ITRA and ICAT were trained on the digital tools for farmers’ profiling and land measurement, and the profiling tool was translated into French. The team has been tasked with training the extension officers selected for the project and supporting them in profiling 9000 rice and cassava farmers, seed producers, marketers, and processors. The final day included a field demonstration of using digital applications for land measurement at the ITRA research center in Lome.

The three-day intensive training was flagged off and closed by the Director of Plant Sectors at the Ministry of Agriculture, Anani Kpadenou, and the Director of Research at ITRA, Dr Kossi Kpemoua.
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