The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said recently that it would open country offices with full complement of staff as part of its plans to enhance its partnership in the country.
The Director-General of the organization, Mr Ides Willebois, made this known during a courtesy call on the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, in Abuja.
“It is very important to focus on country offices and my policy from now on is that the entire large portfolio we have, there would be full compliments of staff that will be based in country so that we have country programmer managers in the country,” Willebois said.
“A larger county also an associate country programme manager, country officer and of cause an assistant, as well as other full time staff to cover the portfolio would mean that IFAD is much closer and nearer to you; you don’t have to fly in fly out to the mission,” the DG explained.
“We will drop some of the initial mode of operation starting with the mode of this our interaction with yourself and other partners both for design and supervision.”
According him, IFAD Nigeria’s country office will be fully operational in the next few weeks to focus on the partnership.
He said that a host agreement has been signed by the IFAD and the Ministry of foreign Affairs to enable it establishe the country office with full accreditation.
The agreement, he said, would help to reduce the repeated mistakes made in designs of various projects carried out in the county. (NAN)
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