FACE-PaM 2025-2030 Strategic Plan, Under Way
Dabis Mwalike, Acting Executive Director FACE-PaM. Photo: Murtala Muhammad
By Murtala Muhammad
A non governmental organization, Forward in Action for Education – Poverty Alleviation and Malnutrition (FACE-PaM) commences a five-day Strategic Planning Workshop for implementation of its 2025 to 2030 activities.
The objective of the workshop is to review the project’s successes in the last strategic plan of 2017 to 2023 and to identify challenges faced during the period with a view to moving forward.
FACE-PaM is intervening on thematic areas of health, education, poverty alleviation, reduction of malnutrition and peace building.
The Acting Executive Director of FACE-PaM, Ms Dabis Mwalike said the organization was committed to align with the Bauchi State domesticated Nutrition policy and Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) policy.
The workshop engaged stakeholders from relevant government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies as well as Civil Society Organizations CSOs with a view to having wider and fruitful contributions.
Ms Mwalike said FACE-PaM had in the last implemented strategic plan that expired in 2023, recorded remarkable success to include empowering over thirteen thousand women with economic skills to support their families.
According to her, it had built the capacity of women to practice backyard gardening to farm nutrition dense foods for their children and family as a whole.
She noted that the organization had also enrolled a number of male and female children in school and offered support in the areas conflict resolution towards achieving peace.
In an interview, the Lead Facilitator workshop, Manji Ephraim Rengshwat said success was solely dependent on planning, hence the need for the organization to come up with a realistic strategic plan to enable it achieve the set target.
He said the participants are expected to assess the project’s activities in the past, relate to the present and forecast the future.
Mr Rengshwat who said the choice of the participants was impressive, expressed optimism that at the end of the workshop there would be a robust strategic plan that would serve as a roadmap towards taking the right steps.
