Federal Republic of Nigeria Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Staple Crop Processing Zones Support Project (scpz)

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Strategy for Stakeholder Identification and Engagement

Stakeholders have been and are being considered at two broad levels:1) those that the project will directly or indirectly affect positively or negatively including those who will lose land, farms, grazing land, buildings, crops, economic trees, businesses, etc. and 2) those that will support project with data, capacity and other forms of technical support before and during implementation (FADAMA, Government Ministries and Agencies).

Identification of government agencies and roles was facilitated by the client and from the information contained in the project appraisal document. The identification of primary stakeholders was determined through the following procedures:

Determination of the local government areas and community within the 30km radius around the SCPZ (through satellite imagery and GIS technology);
Visit to the local government area headquarters- meeting with LGA chairmen and head of department of Agriculture and Fadama desk officers
Meeting and engagements with community leaders and traditional council heads
Consultation/engagements with small social groups including women, farmer groups, herders, etc.

The consultation process outlined in Table ES f which is considered as a continuum for the entire project life cycle began on 13^th August 2014 and continued till 27^th August for the first phase which covered the stakeholder government agencies and the communities within the SCPZ core zone for the safeguard instruments (ESMF, RPF and IPMP) preparation.

The second phase was the combined World Bank and FMARD mission which took place from October 13^th to October 17^th 2014, and provided a platform to validate earlier data and deepened discussions and engagement with the relevant stakeholders, especially Federal Ministry of Environment, Forestry Dept, etc. on essentially safeguard concerns of the project.
The third phase of the consultation at this stage captured four other LGAs and affected groups and communities within the 280,000Ha of ABIR catchment from 27^th to 3^rd November 2014. These communities and LGAs visited are Iwaa and Oshokosho in Lokoja LGA, Iresuare/Osara-Gada in Adavi LGA, Ohu and Irukura in Okehi LGA and Iyara in Ijumu LGA.

ES Table f: Record of Consultations

LGA

Locations

Groups identified/consulted

Dates

LGA	Locations	Groups identified/consulted	Dates
Kabba-Bunu	Odo-Ape, Kabba, Agbadu, Eshi, Ilegun, Oyo	Community leaders, women farmers, Fulani settlement, Ebira settlement, Hunters group, youths	11^th -16^th August 2014, 14^th -15^th October 2014,
Lokoja	Obajana, Oshokosho, Iwaa	As in above	7^th -10^th August 2014, 27^th October 2014
Adavi	Iresuare/Osara Ngada	Community leaders, Fadama farmers group, women, Fulani settlement, Youths	28^th October -3^rd November 2014
Ijumu	Ayegunle and Aiye	Community leaders, Chairman Ijumu LGA, Fadama farmers group, women, Fulani settlement, Youths	28^th October -3^rd November 2014
Okehi	Irukuochakoko, Irukura, Ohu	Community leaders, Fadama farmers group, women, Fulani settlement, Youths	28^th October -3^rd November 2014

Gains of the Consultations

The project development objectives, scope and safeguard concerns were extensively described to all the stakeholders and communities across the visited locations to ensure good participation and inputs. The outcome of consultations were largely similar in terms of concerns, request and expectations. There is also ostensibly similarity in terms of project affected groups, livelihood pattern, and socio-economic conditions.

Consultations with government stakeholder agencies was a platform to assess and discuss on cross cutting issues including agencies capacities, involvement in the SCPZ project, roles and responsibilities, and knowledge sharing from their various project experiences that may benefit the proposed project in terms of stakeholder institutional arrangement and interfacing for rapid resettlement implementation and sound safeguard responsibilities. Some stakeholder concerns and issues that featured during the consultation meetings include the following:

The perceived neglect of some communities in the location
The need to use modern and environment friendly machines to guide against environmental degradation
Proper disposal/management of waste
How government acquire land and types of land tenure in place in Kogi state
What will happen to pastoralists who use part of the land as pastoral grounds?
When will the project implementation commence?
Will the sitting of the facilities be evenly spread across communities that own the lands?
The facilities should be sited within distance that is close to the settlement/community for maximum economic benefit of the people.
The community people should be carried along in employment, training and other benefits that the project will bring.

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