Is the umbrella organization of traders in raw materials, industrial and finished goods, (locally made and imported) in Nigeria. However, owing to the interlink between market access and production of goods, NANTS membership mandate was in 2007 expanded to include local manufacturers of consumer goods, local raw materials providers as well as local Farmers Networks. At the present, NANTS is composed of 157 Unit Associations and over 71,000 Small Scale Farmers. The Vision of NANTS is to “advance trade beyond buying and selling to a vehicle for social justice, human rights, sustainable development and poverty reduction” .
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- No.19 Dan Suleiman Crescent, Behind Utako Market ,, Abuja, Nigeria
- +234 0907 010 2913
- info@nants.org
About Us
ABOUT NANTS
The National Association of Nigerian Traders NANTS
Mission
The Core Values of NANTS are to uphold the following
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- Administrative Practices
- Carry out the Duties
- Develop the Municipaity
- Maintain Financial Integrity
- Represent the Public
NANTS
It is interesting to note that NANTS has indeed built in a strategic entry point from field actions and activities resonating from her strength and experience gained overtime. This approach has a way of critically positioning the organization to remain a solution not only to the needs of her members but also to the nation and society at large.
This strategy appears to have also responded to the SWOT analysis carefully placed on the table and factually designed in a way that operationalizes and addresses the sustainability of projects being targeted. The imperativeness of the handholding of smallscale farmers, traders, artisans and producers at the same time with the focus of producing a win-win environment and collectively beneficial goal as highlighted must be commended.
Specifically, the outlined interventions of NANTS are cantered on trade, economic development and agriculture and are designed from a value chain development and rights-based approach in order to assist her small-scale members in areas of livelihoods enhancement, poverty reduction and sustainable development. The character of information dissemination on current technologies, farming methods and improved approaches to enhanced productivity are subjects that can appropriately place linkage to and value on the SDGs.
The influencing approach on and outreach to the Federal and State Governments in Nigeria, as well as ECOWAS and the continent (within the dictates of relevant domestic, regional and global policy instruments including ECOWAP, CAADP, WTO rules, etc) to be responsive to local producers through commitments in trade and agricultural policy trust also speaks volumes about the credibility of the strategy.
It is therefore believed that this strategy is well placed to respond to the concerns eloquently voiced out by critical members, and therefore should be a worthy investment.
The Interventions of NANTS Are Cantered On Trade, Economic Development and Agriculture and Are Designed from A Value Chain Development and Rights-Based Approach in Order to Assist Her Small-Scale Members Around the Following Objectives
SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVES OF NANTS INTERVENTIONS
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The Activities engaged on agriculture by NANTS include
NANTS Agric Activities and Project Interventions
Micro credit administration
and assistance to local farmers to improve their access to finance.
Information dissemination
to local farmers
Establishing Grain banking strategy
to dislodge cartel structure of farm products and improve the earnings of small-scale farmers.
Capacity building
through extended training of local farmers on crop budgeting, farm accounting, costing of inputs for the purpose of determining profitability in agric business.
The Gender Action Learning System
(GALS)
Intensified advocacy and sustained engagement
with federal and states governments on agricultural policies and commitments on the sector for improved livelihoods for local farmers
Expansion of farmers networks
to all states in Nigeria.
Research and studies on topical trade
and agric related issues such as land grabbing, access to agric finance, bio-fuels, cotton and textiles, gender audit on agric policies, etc.
IFAD funded Gender Justice in Value
Chain Development Project (VCDP) in rural agric based communities in Nigeria.
Agric budget monitoring,
in line with African Maputo Declaration, and this has further support from Oxfam, ECOWAS, etc.
NANTS is currently implementing
the USAID 5-year productivity and livelihoods enhancement training project for farmers in Nigeria targeted at Rice and Cassava value chains.
NANTS is also a Principal Technical Partner
for the IFAD-Federal government of Nigeria intervention on Agriculture mapping Farmer organizations in Nigeria for the implementation of the Value Chain Development Programme.
NANTS has established small scale rice mill
in Nasarawa state of Nigeria, courtesy of TY Danjuma Foundation.
NANTS is the publisher
of different Newsletter series captioned as follows: (a) “Farm and Food”, (b) “Trade Policy Monitor” and (c) “ECOWAS Vanguard” which constantly x-rays agric and trade policies and programmes and approaches to livelihoods and food security in the region.
NANTS is currently implementing
the ‘do agric’ campaign in Nigeria.
NANTS Network and Alliances
NANTS Cross-cutting Issues
NANTS Gender Strategy
NANTS Network and Alliances
NANTS is the Managing Partner of the Voices for Food Security – a Consortium composed of about 50 organizations working on different aspects of agric interventions in Nigeria. NANTS is also the Secretariat of the Pan African NGO Consortium on Agriculture – PANGOC, as well as the Secretariat of the Non-State Actors Coalition on CAADP in Nigeria – the continental NSAs body on CAADP.
At the regional Economic Community (RECs) and African continental level, NANTS works with organizations such FARA, IFPRI, the AUC, UNECA while also relating with PAEPARD, WTO as well as SON, NAFDAC, CBN, etc at the national level. Such collaboration and partnership gears towards public-private sector supportive actions to energize FDI, product quality and standards, market access, access to finance, result-oriented advocacy, etc.
NANTS Cross-cutting Issues
In addition to NANTS’ core principles and values, there are a number of cross-cutting issues that are considered in every engagement of the Association. These include:
i.Ensuring that the outcomes will be pro-poor,
ii.Promotion of gender equity and sensitivity to HIV and AIDS issues, and
iii.Contribute to ensuring environmental sustainability.
NANTS will always address these cross-cutting issues by:
i.Strictly adhering to the FAAP principles during the formulation of operational and work plans for its Strategic Priorities, initiatives and projects
ii.Developing innovation platforms that incorporate stakeholders with direct interest, knowledge and skills in these issues
iii.Targeting sensitisation and support to stakeholders through capacity-strengthening initiatives on cross-cutting issues Using monitoring and evaluation criteria that ensure compliance with both NANTS’ core principles and the manner in which cross-cutting issues are address.
NANTS Gender Strategy
NANTS gender approach in this strategy is an integral component of this overall strategy. NANTS recognises that a focus on gender can increase the productivity of agriculture and improve food security and nutrition. Improving women’s access to productive resources to be at par with men will increase farm yields by 20-30%. This will in turn increase agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5 – 4%, thereby reducing the number of hungry people by 12-17% (FAO 2011).
This strategy’s gender-mainstreaming approach promotes the integration of the needs of both men and women equally into its programmes and operations. Central to this is the promotion of policies and actions that facilitate equitable access to productive resources by both men and women, as well as the integration of gender perspectives into NANTS functions and activities to ensure that both sexes benefit. Women’s needs will be accounted for in the development and dissemination of trade and agricultural policies and technologies. Women will be enabled to 11 fully participate in and benefit from agricultural innovation processes, and women farmers, agribusiness persons and scientists will receive the training they need to be fully competitive in their work. Added to this is that issues around youth will be taken very seriously within the target and objective of ensuring youthful replacement of aging farmers as well as creation of employment for younger generation and teeming youths in order to avoid insecurity consequences of joblessness.
The process of developing this strategy has been informed by the following documents:
i The Frame work for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP)
ii Gender Equality and African Regional Institutions (GEARI) gender audit report of 2009 CAADP
iii Pillar Strategy and operational Plan 2011 -2013
iv The draft MTOP 2014–2018 as well as the draft report on constraints and opportunities for mainstreaming gender in African agricultural research and development among others.