The inaugural
meeting of the Project Steering Committee of the CIDA-funded project on ‘Enhancing
food security in Africa through the improvement of rice post-harvest handling,
marketing and the development of new rice-based products’ was held in Cotonou
on 15 December.
The meeting
was attended by 14 participants representing CIDA, AfricaRice, the Commission
de la communauté économique et monétaire de l'Afrique centrale (CEMAC), ECOWAS (represented by UEMOA),
McGill University, the national project coordinators from Cameroon, Ghana,
Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda. The progress made in 2011 in the project
implementation and the Project Implementation Plan (PIP) were reviewed and the
work plan and budget for 2012 discussed.
