A week-long open data training for members of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Programme (CAADP) Journalists Network kicked off in Hilton Hotels,
Nairobi, Kenya, reports NaijaAgroNet.
CAADP, NaijaAgroNet gathered, is a growth-focused on agricultural development agenda by
African Union (AU) Heads of States and Government, aimed at increasing
agriculture growth rates to a minimum of six per cent annually to create
wealth.
According to the Programme Manager,
Policy, Markets and Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) at CTA,
Lamon Rutten, the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural
Cooperation (CTA) is leading the partnership for the open data training holding
in Nairobi, Kenya from July 25-28, 2016.
This training, Rutten said, is part of
the Global Open Data for Impact and Capacity Development on Agriculture and
Nutrition (GODIVAN) scheme, a Department for International Development (DFID) project,
implemented under a joint venture of international partners with the aim to
increase production of the agricultural sector, improved nutrition for consumers
and more evidence-based policy making, in which these desired changes are based
on enabling communities practically engage with open data.
NaijaAgroNet also gathered that within
the context of this project, CTA in partnership with the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency as facilitated by Local Development
Research Institute (LDRI), is organising this 4-day open data training with the
goal to build the capacity of media practitioners so as to monitor progress and
report on the implementation of the CAADP through the use of agriculture data
and research.
Remmy Nweke in Nairobi/ED, Ops
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