Empowering rural women groups to embrace innovative farming for wealth, health and a sustainable environment
Rural women groups in an organized group to showcase collaborative innovative farming projects. The women will be equipped with knowledge and skills and also given a start up for household projects. This is hoped to be rolled over to the different women in the village over the years.
First Name
Gudula
Last Name
Basaza
Website
Organization
Gudie Leisure Farm
Country
Uganda
Organization Name
Gudie Leisure farm
Organization Website
Organization Phone
256 71 2 050187
Organization Address
P.O Box 2740
Is your organization a
For‐profit
Organization Country
Uganda
Name Your Project
Empowering rural women groups to embrace innovative farming for wealth, health and a sustainable environment:
Country your work focuses on
Uganda
Describe Your Idea
Rural women groups in an organized group to showcase collaborative innovative farming projects. The women will be equipped with knowledge and skills and also given a start up for household projects. This is hoped to be rolled over to the different women in the village over the years.
Website URL
What makes your idea unique?
The innovation promotes an ecosystem whose each segment is a lesson for the public, a money maker for the farmer and a food for other segments. Plants e.g. flowers for beautification, trees for shed, vegetables and fruits and grass apart from using most of them at the home of the women, the nursery makes them available in great numbers to other people. Plants that are not eaten or sold are fed to the heifer. The droppings (urine and feces) from the heifer are fed to our biogas digester to get biogas for lighting and cooking. Excess cow dung is also used to produce charcoal balls which are used for cooking. The slurry will be a fertilser.
Do you have a patent for this idea?
No
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What impact have you had?
We are a farm open to the public that learns from the technologies and innovations we employ in our integrated farming. These are emulated by those interested in farming and innovation. Thus we help to use the environment wisely by eliminating putting greenhouse gases into the environment and cutting trees by providing alternatives.
Problem
Having a critical mass of people innovating farming to yield more in an environmentally friendly way.
Actions
Already in place is the demonstration of what we are promoting. We have developed curriculum for training from 3 hours to a whole week to enable people begin applying the innovations.
Results
Adoption of the innovation
-- Saving on feeds through integration
- Alternative sources of income
- More yield
- Cleaner environment
- Family occupation
What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Please address each year separately, if possible.
- Reaching more people that can adopt the innovations and be mentors for others.
- Improvin infrastructure to accomodate more innovations and reach more people
- Offering outreach follow up of those adopting the innovative farming
What would prevent your project from being a success?
Inability to sustain the demonstration farm outreach in the community financially
How many people will your project serve annually?
101‐1000
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
Less than $50
Does your project seek to have an impact on public policy?
Yes
What stage is your project in?
Operating for 1‐5 years
In what country?
Uganda
Is your initiative connected to an established organization?
No
If yes, provide organization name.
How long has this organization been operating?
More than 5 years
Does your organization have a Board of Directors or an Advisory Board?
Yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with NGOs?
Yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses?
Yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government?
Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.
They help in spreading the good that we want known.
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization?
- Publicity
- Scaling up of provisions
- uman resource development
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
On March, 4th 2008 two armed young men put my husband at gun point as he was returning home. They entered our house and said, “we are thieves; all we want is money”. I decided to devise a better way for the youth to earn a living especially knowing that the number of crime cases reported to police increased by 21% since 2002 (Uganda National Bureau of Statistics Abstract, 2009). I opened Gudie leisure farm (GLF) www.gudiefarm.webs.com to the public and to specifically promote reflection for purposeful living. When we reach the women we reach the whole family.
Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.
Gudula Naiga Basaza in brief
Family
She is married for 14 years to Dr. Robert Basaza. They are blessed with two children – Bill Basaza and Bob Basaza
Service above self and family
- She has been a Rotarian for 13 years. She is a PHF. She has served as a director for community service (current), international service (thrice) and a bulletin officer
- She has initiated projects in her club e.g. the prevention of Mother to Child HIV transmission in Kayunga district (the biggest single project the club has had) and the establishment of the Rotaract club of Uganda Martyrs University).
- She is one of the proprietors of Gudie leisure farm in Wakiso. An innovative farm promoting interactive agricultural education, leisure for fitness, reflection, demonstration of the use of renewable energy and innovative farming. Providing a second chance to young people for employment and further studies.
- She is an executive member of the Forum for African women educationalists (a Pan African organization bridging the gender education gap).
- She is a founder of the friends pension scheme – a pilot scheme to demonstrate how to save, invest and plan for retirement.
- She is the secretary of Peacock Women’s Association limited (A women’s social group) 2009/2010
Education
- Is a Fulbright Scholar at George Washington University, USA where she is writing a Manual for the use of Technology in Teaching and Learning.
- She holds a PhD from the University of Ghent, Belgium (2006) in which she majored in the use of ICT in teaching and learning.
- She also holds a Masters Degree in Science Education from the University of York, UK (1998). She has a Post- Graduate Diploma in Education majoring in teaching methods and Biology (1993) and a Bachelors Degree in Botany and Zoology (1992) both from Makerere University.
Employment
- She has a teaching experience of 16 years in teacher training, Secondary school and University level.
- Currently she works at Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi as Director for the Center for Distance learning studies, Coordinator of Quality Assurance and Lecturer, Educational Technology.
November, 2009
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