NPA gets lead agency role from MAF

NPA gets lead agency role from MAF

On Friday February 29th a MoU was signed between the GOSS Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Norwegian People's Aid, where NPA is to "contribute to food security and poverty reduction capacity building, and policy support, promotion of agricultural development based on the environmentally sound management of natural resources."

NPA was selected through an open competitive process to be the lead implementing agency for MAF/MDTF Sub-Grant Component of the Support to Agriculture and Forestry Development Project (SAFDP).

The MoU is a 2 year agreem

ent and was signed by the Undersecretary for Agricuture, Mr. Waragak Gatluak Faguir and the NPA Country Director for Sudan, Dr. Elias Mitslale Girma, in the presence of the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, his Excellency. Samson Kwaje

Women can do it -Juba, Sudan, 28th February 2008

 

Women can do it - in Sudan!

Juba, Sudan, 28th February 2008

The SPLM women leadership workshop "Women Can do it!", hosted by SPLM Exell. Advisor for Economical Affairs, Central Equatoria, Mary Appya, is in its third day. The trainers of the workshop are the two Norwegian Labor party women, Siri Baastad and Siri Hov Eggen. Today Media has been on

 

Advisor for Economical Affairs, Central Equatoria, Mary Appya

 

the agenda and the participants have analyzed the role of women in today's media in Sudan and how the SPLM women can and should use media to put their work on the agenda.

In addition to internal discussions and group work, the editor-in-chief of The Citizen, Nhial Bol, addressed them on
Women can do it Discussion Group at the workshop

 

 the newspaper's work and priorities. When challenged by the women on why women and their work were never front page material for The Citizen, he defended himself by claiming the newspaper had to print what sells the paper. When again challenged by one of the SPLM women on whether he had ever had a woman on the front page and seen that this sold less papers, he first avoided the question, but when asked to give a simple yes or no, he had to answer "of course not!".

The participants also discussed how women are portrayed when they do appear in the news papers, and also the representation of women journalists. The executive of the Union of Southern Sudan Journalists, Isaac Vuni, also answered questions and advised the participants to use the media more to get their messages across to people and to make sure women are more visible in the newspapers.

Towards the end of the day, the Hon. Deputy Secretary General of SPLM, Dr. Ann Itto, held a session on the importance of the women leaders of SPLM in the nation building of Sudan.

Hon. Deputy Secretary General of SPLM, Dr. Ann Itto