The 12th National Project Steering Committee Meeting of the CSIAP commenced

The 12h National Project Steering Committee (NPSC) Meeting of the Climate Smart Irrigated Agriculture Project (CSIAP) is being held this morning (22^nd ) at the Ministry of Agriculture and Plantation Industries (MoA&PI). The NPSC meeting, which was chaired by Ms. Latheesha Liyanage, Additional Secretary (Development) of the MoA&PI, is vital for ensuring that the CSIAP’s initiatives are strategically guided, well-coordinated, and effectively implemented and contributing to the overall project’s development and progress.

The NPSC, which is  set up at the Ministry of Agriculture to take the overall responsibility in executing the CSIAP, will consist of key officials of the major stakeholder agencies of the central government, and provincial government,  mainly to provide policy guidance to the project and to ensure achieving CSIAP’s objectives. The World Bank Officials and Chief Secretaries of provinces where the CSIAP is being implemented joined the meeting remotely. The CSIAP team was led by Eng. R.M.B. Rajakaruna along with the Project Director, Provincial Deputy Project Directors and Subject Specialists in this meeting.

Photograph by Nikeshala Kodithuwakku. PMU, CSIAP