The Senior Environmental Specialist-World Bank Nigeria Office and Task Team Leader of the ACReSAL Project, Dr. Joy I. Agene has admonished the ACReSAL Project team to ensure the application of science and technology in project implementation processes for sustainable catchment management. She gave the advice during the valedictory session of a 5-day training on the application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing Technology carried out by National Centre for Remote Sensing (NCRS) for ACReSAL officers in Jos, Plateau State. Dr. Joy highlighted that to have a saturated and sustainable catchment, we need to apply technology to delineate soil suitability and the nature of intervention to carry out. Hence, she cautioned that all ACReSAL technical officers by the virtue of the capacity received in Jos ought to know how to take site coordinates, stating that all data must be georeferenced and accurately captured. “If you do not have the science, the technical know-how, when it comes to implementation of catchment management plans, you will not have results,” she said. She called on states to tap into the presentations delivered by the resource persons and experts in the training, have dialogues with the three key sectors (Environment, Agriculture and Water Resources) of their respective states and identify policy options that will be integrated into the catchment management plans. “This stage of the project is the time to go back to our states based on all the capacity staff have acquired including the soft skills, to sit down, form the snowflakes from the leadership training, delegate responsibilities, go to the field and deliver on the project result framework”. Dr. Joy appealed to state project management units to ensure that ESS 6 (Environmental and Social Safeguards-6) is triggered before going into biodiversity conservation and protection of the ecosystem. She applauded ACReSAL Team for commitment, dexterity, determination and hunger for knowledge which was demonstrated in the course of the training. “I am a product of NCRS, the capacity in this centre is immense, the resources, not just the human resources but the data; software and know how is available here and that is why we spoke about the MOU between NARSDA, so that ACReSAL will continue to leverage on the resources available” she added.