Creating income opportunities for the rural poor.IDE UK holds Ghana event at the Houses of Parliament
- Bob Nanes – Ghana Country Director
Politicians gathered at an IDE UK event at the Houses of Parliament on the 30th March to learn more about IDE’s work in Ghana from IDE Ghana Country Director Bob Nanes.
The event was hosted by Sam Gyimah MP and member of the International Development Select Committee and other attendees included Stephen O’Brien MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, Malcolm Bruce MP, Chair of the International Development Select Committee and the co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development, Lord Cameron and Tony Baldry MP.
Bob Nanes is IDE’s longest serving field directors having previously established IDE country programmes in India and Nepal over the last 20 years.
Bob briefed the group on IDE’s newly established programme in Ghana that is working in the northern part of the country to establish sustainable supply chains of irrigation technologies for poor smallholder farmers.
The programme is making rapid progress and IDE has recently branched out into neighbouring Bukino Faso. To learn more about IDE’s work in this fabulous country see http://ideghana.org/
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