By Yunusa Isa, Gombe
The Gombe State Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support (L-PRES) Project, has organized a one day training for 55 enumerators across the 11 local government areas of the state in preparation for profiling livestock value chain actors in the sub sector in the state.
Briefing the trainees in Gombe, the L-PRES State Coordinator Professor Usman Bello Abubakar said the essence of the profiling is to develop a depository that will contain relevant data on livestock value chain operators in the state, their specific needs and challenges for the purpose of various interventions the project is planning to embark towards transforming the sector in to a more profitable industry.
He stressed the need for the enumerators to ensure high standard of honesty and transparency in the discharge their duties by capturing accurate, authentic and reliable data that will stand the taste of time.
Professor Abubakar said, “We are providing this training for you to go back to your various communities so that you can enumerate livestock value chain actors in your local government areas”.
He warned against any form of discrimination either religious, tribal, political, gender or personal.
He explained that value chain actors in the livestock sector include producers, processors, marketers, transporters and any other person engaged in an activity related to livestock.
“The target beneficiaries in the exercise should not be captured randomly but in their respective places of business so as to ensure accurate data. He hinted that once the data is captured it goes directly from the community to the L-PRES National Database where it can be seen instantly”, he added.
Professor Abubakar warned that, the project will not condone negligence or lapses from the enumerators, maintaining that supervisors have also been assigned to monitor the exercise and assist them where necessary.
He advised them to contact their supervisors immediately in the face of any challenge or need for clarification.
The L-PRES Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Linda Sukar also made a brief presentation on the objectives of the training, providing an overview of the livestock value chain.
The project’s Information and Communication Technology Officer Abubakar Ahmed, took the enumerators on the processes involved in the profiling exercise.
The enumeration exercise is expected to commence immediately across the state.