KENYA: AMECEA Participates in Integrated Food Security and Governance Workshop organized by CAFOD
A section of the Participants of the CAFOD Workshop on Integrated Food Security and Governance
In a bid to enhance collaboration among its partners from two AMECEA Countries, Kenya and Uganda as well as AMECEA Justice Peace and Caritas Department, The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD) organized a workshop on integrated Food Security and governance with an aim to develop a common program and a common way of tackling the two issues i.e. food security and governance.
Programs Manager
According to CAFOD East Africa Programs Manager Ms. Nelly Shonko, the workshop was held to help integrated food security programs partners engage in advocacy through the work they do to ensure that they get government contribution.
“We as non-governmental organizations we can only contribute to a certain level, the main actors when it comes to food security and governance issues ought to be the government. Therefore, the aim is to empower communities to be able to work closely with the governments so that their plans and work is included in the county integrated development plan,” Ms. Shonko explained.
According to AMECEA Justice Peace and Caritas Coordinator Rev. Fr. Paul Mung’athia Igweta who was a participant in the workshop which was held in Nairobi between 2nd and 6th July, 2018, experience was very enriching.
Coordinator AMECEA Justice
Peace and Caritas Department
“Through the forum we have been trained on project proposal writing, we have been able to build networks with other organizations that CAFOD partners with. At the same time, they are challenging us on doing projects that are people’s oriented or community oriented and on issues that support justice as well as social development,” Fr. Mung’athia explained.
The workshop was attended by participants from 16 organizations that partners with CAFOD from Kenya and Uganda.
“The main thing about this workshop is to work together and so we have spent the last three days developing those projects and discussing and agreeing on common ways of collaboration. Bringing partners together enables them to network, learn from each other and basically get different perspectives of developing programs as opposed to when individual partners do it alone,” Ms. Shonko explained.
A total of 49 individuals participated in the workshop. These included directors of programs, accountants and project staff.
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By Pamela Adinda, AMECEA Online News
