Strengthening of farmers with knowledge and skills to improve the livelihoods through Agri-business
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Localização
Project Street Address
MPIGI MUDDUMA-SUB-COUNTRY
Project City
MPIGI
Project Province/State
BULELEJE
Project Postal/Zip Code
Project Country
Uganda
Sua ideia
Country your work focuses on:
Uganda
Website URL
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Em que estágio está seu projeto?
Idea phase
What is the average monthly household income in your target community, in US Dollars?
<$100
Dê um nome ao seu projeto
Strengthening of farmers with knowledge and skills to improve the livelihoods through Agri-business
Describe Your Idea
INOVAÇÃO
Describe your idea in fewer than 50 words.
What makes your idea unique?
With a well established member group ,members have managed to register the knowledge attained through collective participation and in other ways individual basis. The project has managed to catch up with good farming methods and identifying responsibilities played by each member for project sustainability and development
Establishment of demonstration plot for training
Purposely crop department
What is your area of work? (Please check as many as apply.)
Community development , Food security , Marketing , Sustainable agriculture .
What impact have you had?
Describe the primary problem(s) that your project is addressing.
Describe the steps that your organization is taking to make your project successful.
Impacto
What will it take for your project to be successful over the next three years? Success in Year 1:
Being in position to access financial and technical expertise resources.
Being in Position to create awareness of climate change among the communities through working on peoples attitude for example addressing all the believes that are relate to tree growing.
Success in Year 2:
Promoting and spear heading tree growing and planting programmes in the country/communities.
Success in Year 3:
Creation of environmental lobby and advocacy platforms at district and sub-county levels to engage policy makers for favorable weather and climate policies in the country.
Do you have a business plan or strategic plan? (yes/no)
Not as yet
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 1:
Registering of new members ,this will increase membership to the project and sensitization strategies laid.
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 2:
Producing of quality and quantity of produce that meet the market standards and setting up infrastructure.
What are the three most important actions needed to grow your initiative or organization? STEP 3:
Through project renovation ,by having good information technologies structures
Describe the expected results of these actions.
New/developing ideas will be forwarded to back up the development
Improvement in livelihoods of people due to increase in production.
Community engagement in all activities benefiting the community.
What was the defining moment that led you to this innovation?
To allow people access Marketing information process of agricultural products ,processing ,a campaigned by producing of good quality and increase on the productivity ,allow small scale Farmers to boo st their income through collective selling of produce to local and outside markets hence eliminating of middle men
Tell us about the social innovator behind this idea.
MPIFA ,support services constituted much in collaborating people to have common objective ,after people realized that gap formed the project to get BULELEJE FARMERS GROUP. Which group members have acquired skill and knowledge in farming practices
How did you first hear about Changemakers?
Uganda National Farmers Federation invited MPIFA.
Temas relacionados à inscrição
SUSTENTABILIDADE
What would prevent your project from being a success?
Financing source
yes
If yes, provide organization name.
MPIFA
How long has this organization been operating? (i.e. less than a year; 1-5 years; 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/no)
yes
Does your organization have any non-monetary partnerships with businesses? (yes/no)
no
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.
How many people will your project serve annually?
What is the total number of employees and total number of volunteers at your organization?
What is your organization's business classification?
Please select one
Have you received funding from any of the following groups? (Please check as many as apply.)
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