Small Scale Irrigation
Sobre Você
Localização
Project Street Address
Nakigo Road
Project City
Iganga
Project Province/State
Busoga
Project Postal/Zip Code
Project Country
Uganda
Sua ideia
Country your work focuses on:
Uganda
Website URL
YouTube Upload
Em que estágio está seu projeto?
Idea phase
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
<$50
Dê um nome ao seu projeto
Small Scale Irrigation
Describe Your Idea
INOVAÇÃO
Describe your idea in fewer than 50 words.
The project will promote small scale irrigation of especially horticulture crops by using solar water pumps and drawing water from underground and flowing to crops.
What makes your idea unique?
Initiated by the rural poorest of the poor in a bid to overcome their household problems by themselves.
What is your area of work? (Please check as many as apply.)
Development & Prosperity , Business , Community development , Employment , Energy , Income generation , Infrastructure , Poverty alleviation , Rural development , Sustainable agriculture , Water , Food security , Hunger .
What impact have you had?
Awareness creation
Describe the primary problem(s) that your project is addressing.
Lack of sufficient water for agricultural production is leading to reduced crop yields as a result of drought .
Describe the steps that your organization is taking to make your project successful.
Provision of farming and advisory services.
Impacto
What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Success in Year 1:
Provision of information.
Success in Year 2:
Provision of irrigation equipment.
Success in Year 3:
Provision of good road network.
Do you have a business plan or strategic plan? (yes/no)
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 1:
Increase access to financial services.
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 2:
Increase access to information.
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 3:
change of community attitude.
Describe the expected results of these actions.
Increased household incomes among family farmers.
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
The community experiences far below average incomes (Resulting into absolute poverty)
Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.
Most households can not afford social services and this makes living conditions unfavorable for the community
How did you first hear about Changemakers?
Through the country coordinator –Uganda.
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SUSTENTABILIDADE
What would prevent your project from being a success?
Limited funds.
Financing source
yes
If yes, provide organization name.
Soroti District Farmers Association
How long has this organization been operating? (i.e. less than a year; 1-5 years; more than 5 years)
1-5 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/no)
yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses? (yes/no)
yes
A História
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with government? (yes/no)
yes
Please tell us more about how these partnerships are critical to the success of your innovation.
Majorly on information sharing.
How many people will your project serve annually?
100-1000
What is the total number of employees and total number of volunteers at your organization?
14 staff
What is your organization's business classification?
Non-profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
Have you received funding from any of the following groups? (Please check as many as apply.)
European Union (Any EU Government) , World Bank .
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