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National farmer registries in Africa and Jordan
Further support was provided to FAO field offices in helping governments in Africa design and build national farmer registries. Efforts are ongoing in Burundi, Comoros, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and the United Republic of Tanzania. In Kenya, assistance provided was instrumental in adapting an already existing Agricultural Management Information System developed for the FAO country office in Zambia to the Kenyan agricultural context. Through a more than 2 -year consultative process between FAO, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives (MoALF&C), the Agricultural Transformation Office (ATO) and county ICT and agricultural officers, the Kenya Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (KIAMIS) has been developed and piloted. In 2022, extensive training was delivered on farmer and e-voucher modules to national and county staff in preparation for their national deployment, planned to be initiated after the change of government. Interest has been high in integration with other systems, including the FAO-led European Union project to Digitalize Land Records and map land usage through the National Land Information Management System (NLIMS) and FAO projects requiring farmer registration facilities.
FAO worked in close collaboration with the African Development Bank (ADF) and the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) to map the digital landscape in the United Republic of Tanzania with the goal of selecting a suitable national farmer registry for upscaling nationally. In another partnership with ADB and FAO's resilience team for East Africa, a unified framework is being designed for building national farmer registries for
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Burundi, Comoros, Somalia and South Sudan, potentially building on the Identification and Delivery for Empowerment Applications (IDEA) platform, which is already present in Somalia and South Sudan. In Zambia, the original Integrated Agriculture Management Information System, now called FSMS, continues to evolve, with one version run by the Smart Zambia Institute for Government, another being run by the FAO country office in Zambia for a social protection programme and a third in development for a new government-led social protection scheme.
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