The aim
of every intervention by the National Agricultural Land and Water Management
Development Project (Nema) is to reduce poverty of rural women and youth
and increased incomes for the
beneficiaries.
This is exactly what Nema is doing for the
people of Jarumeh Koto Village, in the Central River Region North.
The Nema project is
actually an up scaling of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
(IFAD) previous projects, particularly the Participatory Integrated Watershed
Management Project (PIWAMP).
Under
the Nema project, substantial funds
has been raised to co-finance the project in the country, of which IFAD
contributed US$40 million, and in addition to that also, there has been a
parallel co-financing agreement with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) at a
tune of US$50 million. Added to the above figures, there is a parallel
financial agreement with the IsDB that is supporting the Building Resilience
against Food Insecurity in the Sahel (P2RS) project at a tune of US$20.8
million. The total portfolio of the project is US$76 million.
“The
coming of this tidal irrigation and especially the construction of the bridge
has transformed our lives for good,” Aja Nyima Sillah, leader of Nematulie Kafo, in Jarumeh Koto Village,
told Mansa Banko Blog during an interview in Jarumeh Koto village.
