CSO Platform on agriculture inaugurated in Tamale

By Caesar Abagali, GNA
Tamale, March 12, GNA - The USAID under its Northern Ghana Governance Activity (NGGA), has inaugurated the Northern Ghana Civil Society Organisations Platform on agriculture.

It is aimed at strengthening CSO and private sector groups' potentials for agricultural growth.

In line with the objective, the NGGA is supporting the revival of the Northern Ghana CSO Platform on agriculture, which URBANET, TradAid and CIKOD all local NGOs operating in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions are leading the platforms.

The Platform is a coalition of CSOs and private sector group and actors working in the agriculture value chain and meant to influence public policy processes that would improve agriculture outcomes in the north.

Mr Cyris Pul, Governance and Advocacy Specialist of the NGGA speaking at the inauguration ceremony in Tamale called for unity among CSO groups to ensure success.

He gave the assurance that the NGGA programme would strive harder to ensure improvement in agriculture growth in its operational areas.

He said the platform was expected to hold series of regional level CSO experience sharing and consultative forms to strengthen cross learning.

The NGGGA is a five-year project supported by USAID and implemented by a consortium of NGOs led by CARE International with Action Aid Ghana, WANEP-Ghana, SEND Ghana being the other partners who are working in 28 districts in Northern Ghana.

As part of Feed the Future, the US government's global hunger and food security initiative, the NGGA works to fortify the co-ordination and integration of decentralised agricultural development and to promote responsive governance for improved agricultural development in Ghana.

GNA