Component 4: Project Coordination and Management
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development is the main implementing agency and the project is anchored in the State Department for Crop Development. NAVCDP utilizes existing three-tiered implementation capacity and strong community institutions developed earlier under NARIGP and KCSAP both at the national level and county level. At the national and county levels, the existing NARIGP NPSC and existing County Project Steering Committees (CPSCs) for NARIGP (19 counties) and KCSAP (14 counties) provides oversight and policy guidance.
Sub-Component 4.1: Project Coordination
This sub-component strengthens the human resource capacity staffing. This is achieved through strengthening operational and implementation units (NPCU, CPCU, CoG, JASSCOM etc.), monitoring the procurement arrangements and thresholds, reporting, audits, and financial management guidelines. The subcomponent also ensures that the staff working environment and transportation means are catered for at all levels. The sub-component also monitors the development, validation and disclosure of the different project operation manuals.
Sub-Component 4.2: Monitoring & Evaluation and ICT
This sub-component involves undertaking of collection, analysis and reporting of data, development of ICT-based Agricultural Information Platform for sharing information and facilitation of networking on all project components. This will be achieved through review of M&E framework for existing projects and development a new one for the current project, development of MIS platform and other data collection tools and using them to collect data, conducting baseline, mid-term and end-of-project evaluation, development and review of annual work plans and budgets, organization of ISMs, undertaking case studies and development of communication strategy and citizen engagement.