The Kisumu County Aquaculture Business Development Programme Coordination Unit organized a two-day multisectoral workshop as from 15th to 16th March, 2023, to prepare the Annual Work Plan and Budget at the Golf Hotel, Kakamega.
The aim of the workshop was to involve the County Programme Implementation team to:
• Prepare a Draft Annual Work plan and Budget (AWPB) for FY: 2023/24
• Prepare a Draft Procurement Plan (PP) using the IFAD Template, and
• Consolidate the beneficiary needs and the results matrix for FY 2023/24.
Being the 5th AWPB and PP, the Programme will focus on results that will bring about intensive rural transformation through interventions to support farmers’ production, market linkages and operationalization of Private Public Partnership Programme arrangements. The FY 2023-2024 AWPB and PP is therefore expected to guide such interventions.
The County programme Coordinator, Mr. Kenneth Luga further to outlining the objectives of the workshop also gave an overview of the programme’s achievements for the FY 2022/23, including the activities for the last quarter.
The Programme’s Fisheries Officer, who also doubles up as the M& E officer Mr. Kevin Wamira at the commencement of the workshop gave highlights on the annual work plan and budget of the ABDP.
On his part, the Programme’s Fisheries Technician, Mr. Collins Otieno took the participants through the ABDP MEMIS Reporting tool.
There were also presentations from the Sub County Fisheries officers over the proposed work plan and the budget for the FY 2023/24.
While officially closing the workshop, Madam Joyce Okwara one of the senior officers in the Fisheries sector thanked all the participants for their deliberations which she said would go a long way in growing the sector.
The Aquaculture Business Development Programme is a jointly funded Programme by the Government of Kenya (GOK) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
The overall goal of ABDP is reduced poverty and increased food security and nutrition in rural communities, and in pursuit of this goal, the Programme Development Objective is to increase the incomes, food security and nutritional status of the wider communities of poor rural households involved in aquaculture.
