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World Bank, Bill Gates Commit 2.6 Million USD for Agric Research In Nigeria
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank have just issued a U.S.$ 2,600,000 grant to Nigeria's Ministry of Finance to fund a series of agriculture data surveys in the country under the program “on Improving the Quality and Policy Relevance of Household-Level Data on Agriculture in SubSaharan Africa”.
The grant follows a request by Nigeria for further financial assistance in its household living standard survey measurements project.
The approval of the grant worth over 520,000,000 naira was conveyed to Nigeria's Mrs. Anastasia M. Daniel-Nwaobia, Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Finance Abuja by the World Bank, which manages the funding, in a letter dated August 18, 2015.
According to the letter, the funded project consists of the following parts:
(a) Revision out of the sampling and survey design to improve the focus on agriculture and household welfare.
(b) Redesigning of household survey questionnaire to improve consistency with selected similar projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(c) Field visits to collect household data on agriculture by targeting multiple cropping systems at regional level.
(d) Support for the development of a computer assisted personal interview application for the implementation and recording of household surveys.
(e) Methodological research to validate the issues related to agriculture data and the use of computer assisted personal interviewing.
(f) Capacity building activities for the selected Project stakeholders on data collection and analysis on household surveys.
(g) Improve and expand data documentation and dissemination activities.