BAFS/PCU CONDUCTS SECOND SET OF TRAINING FOR AGRIBUSINESS GRANTEES FINANCED UNDER THE 11TH EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

BAFS/PCU CONDUCTS SECOND SET OF TRAINING FOR AGRIBUSINESS GRANTEES FINANCED UNDER THE 11TH EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT FUND

The Technical Assistant (TA) Finance and Procurement who is also Deputy Head of the Technical Assistance Team (TAT), Guy Chimimba, the Imprest Accounting Officer (IAO), Jonathan Lamboi and the Monitoring and Evaluating (M&E) Officer, Alfred Gborie of the BAFS Project Coordination Unit (BAFS/PCU) today, 22nd September 2020, conducted a training for some of the BAFS project Agribusiness Grantee organizations.Representatives from Bennimix, Octopus, CAFOD, Action Against Hunger, BRAC were in attendance.The training which was organised at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) is the second of a series of trainings for recipients of Grant Contracts Financed under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) to give support and build capacity of Grantees.The training sessions focused on topics related to the relationship between the EU, National Authorizing Office (NAO), Grantees, MAF and BAFS PCU in contract management, structure of the EDF Grant contract- General and special conditions, procurement rules for beneficiaries, reports, record keeping and terms of reference for expenditure verification, and finally BAFS project and the Sierra Leone tax rules. It is hoped that the trainings will enhance the knowledge of grantee organizations on the general and specific contractual conditions and provisions setting out the administrative, financial, legal and technical clauses governing the execution of grants contracts.More information on the EU’s support to the agriculture sector in Sierra Leone can be found on the BAFS website https://bafs.org.sl and the NAO website www.nao.gov.sl.

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