Wednesday, 9 November 2022

The World Bank oversees Home Garden, Crop Clinic and Compost Production in NP

The World Bank Team arrived in Koolamurippu village,  Mullaitivu to supervise Climate Smart Nutritional Sensitive Home Garden (CSNSHG), Crop Clink and Compost Production Programmes conducted by the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) recently. The World Bank Officials met members of a Producer Society in the village to find CSISP’s contribution to improving productivity and livelihoods. Farmers in the village highly appreciated the support provided by the CSIAP to improve productivity.

The World Bank Delegations led by Mr.  Sheu Salau, CO- Task Team Leader (TTL) of the CSIAP & Mission Leader along with Consultant Mr. S. Manoharan and Dr. Athula Senarathne, Senior Agriculture Specialist, Mr. George Babu, Provincial Deputy Project Director (Northern Province) Subject Specialists and Officers of the CSIAP were on this tour.

Story by R. Sanjeepan (Institutional Development & Capacity Building Specialist), NP, CSIAP 

A workshop on training the CSIAP staff to use the FMIS

The Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) commenced a two-day residential workshop in the Project Management Unit (PMU) this morning (09th) to train the Staff of Accounts Departments working for Provincial Deputy Project Directors’ offices and PMU of the CSIAP to use the Financial Management Information System (FMIS). The CSIAP’s finance and accounts activities will be handled via the FMIS from December 01st onwards. Soft Vision Technologies (Pvt) Ltd designed the finance and account application for the CSIAP. Mr. T.T. Dhayalan, System Analyst and Consultant, Soft Vision Technologies (Pvt) and his team are giving the CSIAP Staff a hands-on experience with the FMIS.