FPMU News
“NEWMAP: A Positive impact on Livelihood and Sustainable Land Management”
Stakeholders have called for the sustainability of the objectives of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), perhaps to ensure that the Project becomes an Agency to ensure the continuity of its positive implementation impacts. These echoes...
NEWMAP Is Marvelous, It Has Been Saving Lives – Patience Ozokwor
A popular Nollywood actress, Mrs. Patience Ozokwor (aka Mama G) has said the timely intervention of Nigeria Erosion and Watershed management Project (NEWMAP) to land degradation in some of the erosion prone areas of the South Eastern Nigeria has saved many lives and...
Federal Government of Nigeria Green Bond Series II oversubscribed
Abuja, Nigeria 11th June 2019 – The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Debt Management office has conducted a second issuance of 15 billion Naira its Green Bond series. This was made possible with the financial and technical support by the World Bank funded ...
NEWMAP holds GVB retrofitting Workshop
Dateline 17th June 2019: A 4 day Gender Based Violence (GBV) retrofitting workshop for the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project commenced with all the 21 partner states in attendance. The NEWMAP’s GBV clinic and retrofitting was initially scheduled for May...
Joint Supervision Mission on NEWMAP heralded with RESULTS’ MARKETPLACE
A joint World Bank (WB), Federal Government of Nigeria and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Mission to the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) commenced from March 14 2019. The Mission which is still...
Event: World Bank supports NEWMAP, FADAMA with South South Knowledge Exchange (SSKE) on Watershed Management, Infrastructure and Agriculture between China, India and Nigeria.
South-South Learning and Knowledge Sharing for watershed management, infrastructure and agriculture: World Bank task teams secured financing from the China-World Bank Group Trust Fund of USD 433,000 over 2.5 years to enhance South-South knowledge sharing between...
Hon. Minister of State Environment Flags-off NEWMAP Training on Catchment Planning and Management.
The Honourable Minister of State Environment, Mr. Ibrahim Usman Jibril has urged participants to leverage on the catchment planning and management training for successful project implementation. The Minister stated this on Monday, 1st August 2016 in Anambra state...
NEWMAP kicks – off Radio Programming in the States towards public enlightenment and awareness creation
By : Adebayo Thomas Beginning from February 2017 the Project step – up its public awareness drive with special radio talk programme via state based radio stations in the old 7 first movers’ states of Abia, Anambra, Cross River, Ebonyi, Edo, Enugu and Imo. This...
CLIMATE CHANGE KNOWLEDGE IMMERSION WORKSHOP- FOR PARLIAMENTARIANS AT TRANSCORP HILTON HOTEL, ABUJA
Participants: The workshop was attended by over 70 persons including; The parliamentarians Civil Society organization The media and General public The Line Ministries Opening Remarks was given by Dr. Bukar Hassan, Permanent Secretary, and Federal Ministry of...
NEWMAP Collaborates with Federal Ministry of Environment / World Bank on Climate Immersion Workshop
Climate Change is a defining challenge of our time. There is scientific evidence that it does exit and Africa is the most vulnerable even though the GHG emission is lower in developing countries, this is because we do not have the capacity and technology to mitigate...