Cities Farming for the Future CFF Freetown - Sierra Leone 2nd Finding mission

June 2006 updates on IWMI-RUAF CFF Programme IWMI Mission to Freetown in June was to: formally launch the Freetown urban and peri-urban agriculture project conduct training of trainers programme for selected resource persons who could play a role in subsequent training on multi-stakeholder processs for action planning and policy formulation (MPAP) in urban agriculture train and constitute a city team of stakeholders who will drive the implementation of FUPAP (Freetown Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Project). FUPAP was successfully launched by Dr. S. Monde,  Minister for Agric and Food Security (MAFS), Sierra Leone  on the 5th of June. The launching was attended by about 30 participants A three day training of trainers workshop was organised for 7 resource persons on the issues of urban agriculture to ensure common understanding. A 5-day training workshop was conducted for 24 senior and mid-level staff of key stakeholders in UA in June  with participants from Sierra Leone except two from Gambia and Nigeria. A 15 member city team on UPA in Freetown has been constituted There is an opportunity to link urban waste management to agriculture as a  means of employment for poor women in the cities Mission in Freetown was successful

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