FoSHoL-CARE organized a half day inception workshop of its Steering Committee on February 8, 2006 from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm at the Directorate of Agriculture Marketing Office, Rajshahi. Senior officials of government agricultural agencies, universities, heads of FoSHoL-CARE sub-partners were present in the workshop.
The purpose of the inception workshop was to introduce the Steering Committee members to the project sub-partners, select a convener for the committee from the officials of participating government agencies, determine the Scope of Work (SoW) and prepare a Terms of Reference (ToR).
The objective of the Steering Committee is to build a strong network and coordination between the various government agencies and participants of the project so that they can be more functional, effective, accessible and smooth in their service delivery to the project beneficiaries i.e., small or marginal farmers. |
All participants accepted FoSHoL-CARE invitation to join in this Steering Committee and ensured their full support and cooperation to make this committee active. The committee members would meet in every three months. FoSHoL-CARE will take the responsibility of organizing the meeting and bear the cost. However, the venue of the meeting will be rotated among the members' office premises. The chairperson will also be selected as a rotating basis. The next meeting will be held in the Department of Botany of Rajshai University on any day in the 2 nd week of March, 2006 with the Vice Chancellor of Rajshahi University as the Chief Guest and Additional Director of DAE, as the convener. |
