PROJECT TITLE:
IMPROVING LIVELIHOOD OF CHILDREN,
WOMEN AND YOUTH THROUGH
POULTRY; MUSHROOMS; FISH FARMING & CRAFTS
IMPLEMENTING:
THE KEY ROCK FOR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (TKRCDA)
DURATION:
12 MONTHS, THEN IT WILL BE SELF
DRIVEN PROJECT
CONTACT
P.
O. Box 16201, Wandegeya Kampala
Tel.
+256 702 240373, +256 772 768735
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
THE KEY ROCK FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (TKRCDA) is an Association registered in Uganda as a Non Profit Community
Based organization, under registration number WCBO/699/12 in Wakiso District, Republic of Uganda
Our Vision is to
have productive, innovative and orderly people who are well equipped and
empowered and can actively participate to there communities development.
Our Mission is
to nurture self reliance and empower the communities by providing them with the
skills, enterprises and tools they need to develop them selves.
Our Values are:
- Transparency and Accountability
- Effective Participation and Involvement
- Knowledge and Information sharing
i)
The Key Rock for
Community Development Association is guided by these core values in all its transactions
with all its members, employees, partners, Collaborators, and stake holders
ii)
The Key Rock for
Community Development Association brings these values to the attention of all
the categories of stakeholders, mentioned above at earliest opportunity
TKRCDA having realised the need
for women and youth to improve their livelihood, has thought to initiate a
project on domestic income generating enterprises, girl child education and
reproductive health in this area.
INTRODUCTION
The conditions being
experienced by Children, women and youth in and around areas in Uganda in terms
of livelihood as researched by our staff and from the public outcry are a
concern for THE KEY ROCK FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION to contribute towards its development in order to uplift
their welfare. The organisation takes gender concerns as regards women
empowerment a priority and other objectives include training rural communities
in manageable income generating activities, insuring education of Girl Child,
environmental protection and catering for food security. With this
situation, TKRCDA has the capacity to respond by way of working with community
women by availing them with developmental projects that will earn them income,
nutrition and improve their level of understanding especially on policies
benefiting them and help in general. This includes their children.
TKRCDA has made interventions
in Kayonza sub-county, mainly in parishes of Karangara, Mukono, Kyeshero,
Bujengwe and Ntungamo in addressing poverty eradication through provision of
improved seeds and sensitisation on HIV/AIDS control and sponsoring children.
So far there is one student studying Enrolled Comprehensive Nurse. We are
requesting for support for project activities and materials so that we
contribute to the welfare of women in this area.
We’re currently advocating for
commercial poultry and fish farming to address these challenges, in these
families will generate funds to support them selves and educate there children.
PROBLEM STATEMENT AND
JUSTIFICATION
The need to improve the welfare
and livelihood conditions of women and girls is an issue to be
addressed. The women around these areas are poor and less informed, lack
of technical guidance on productive enterprises and product markets. Government
intervention in the economic utilization of natural resources is still low and
gender mobilization for development is minimal despite the high number of women
who are to be considered in empowerment.
Lower productivity within women
enterprises of poultry, crop, apiculture and livestock calls for redress. Fish
farming from natural waters like Lake Victoria and others cannot meet the
requirements of locals for domestic consumption and marketing as most of it
ends up in larger markets as per government design. This situation affects
women and children especially those pregnant and under 5 years respectively.
Programmes addressing
reproductive health by government need much to be complemented as few
grassroots women have benefited. Cross cutting challenges like HIV/AIDS and environmental protection are at early stages of redress
due to lack of updated information to the locals. HIV/AIDS prevalent rate here
exceeds the national average and is over 8.4%, younger women are most affected
here as Older men working takes advantage of them with small things/gifts since
they can’t get them especially from their family/parents. Infant mortality rate
exceeds 95 per 1,000 children born while literacy rate is below 69%, mainly
women affected.
The Key Rock For
Community Development Association (TKRCDA)
has come up to address this situation by
handling two programs of Poultry and Fish farming concurrently for they
symbiotically benefit from each. Considering population in Wakiso According
to the 2002 national census figures,
Wakiso District had a population of
approximately 957,300 according to 2002 national census, making it the
second-most populated district in the country. At that time, 53% of the population
was children below the age of 18 years and 17% of the total population were
orphans. It is estimated that the
population of Wakiso District was approximately 1,310,100 in 2010.
Income generating projects that improves the livelihood would be set as models
and will include chicken multiplication and rearing through incubators on a
semi-intensive scales, fish farming in women groups, bee keeping and honey
processing for organic honey. We shall also handle awareness on reproductive
health and community sensitization about infant and maternal mortality rate
using proper instruments. Cross cutting challenges will also be
addressed.
We shall focus ourselves on
women that fall in the age bracket of 14 – 40 years who amount to 9,396, we
feel that this age bracket will easily conceptualize the need of improved
livelihood and the welfare of women and pass the same to the rest of the
generation as time goes. In helping these women, there families including
young children will be the potential beneficiaries.
At the end of the project
cycle, more than 9,000 women will have benefited and the community outside this
area will have known the importance of this project. We hope to start
with Project like Fish Farming (semi intensive) and Poultry Projects, then
train groups and individuals to initiate same projects.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- To make women in this area are more informed on gender concepts and policies that favours them as well as catering for girl child education through sponsorships
- Improve household income and equip women with skills used in modern production for enterprises like bee keeping, poultry and fish farming in addition to food production.
- To improve the welfare of women and increase group development as well participatory approach in handling matters related to them.
- To create market outlets for women crafts in the good markets and offer women employment as well as reducing HIV/AIDS infection rate in the park area.
- Improve nutrition, reduce infant and maternal mortality rate as well as early pregnancies and forced marriages.
- To strengthen the organisation capacity to handle matters related to women development.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
1.
Setting up a project
core team
2.
Conducting seminars on gender
concepts and policies that empower women.
3.
Identifying, selection
and training of 24 women welfare councilors.
4.
Carrying out
participatory community mapping exercise on women to establish the targeted
group.
5.
Establishing Poultry
Farm (In one place) and Fish Farm to act as demonstration farm and also it will
be source of income to run future projects of the organization… to be source of
income to sponsor students especially ygirls from poor families in our targeted
communities.
6.
Acquisition an outlet in
the tourist
and other market centers for women crafts and
other products.
7.
Identifying
beneficiaries of various enterprises.
8.
Developing a
communication link system to the project.
9.
Recommending to
Government and concerned Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) girl children to
sponsor in further education especially post primary.
10. Sensitising on reproductive health to reduce infant and
maternal mortality rate, teenage pregnancy and forced marriage.
11. Holding radio talk shows on development issues by women
project stakeholders including beneficiaries.
12. Putting up women welfare committees at parish level and
welfare clubs at sub-county level.
13. Recruitment and selection of technical staff.
14. Participation in national and international women day
functions.
15. Liaising with Local Government, agriculture, veterinary,
health extension workers for complimentary technical support to women.
16. Establishing, monitoring and evaluation components to
document process and outcome as well as ensuring operation soundness and share
experience.
STRATEGIES FOR PROGRAM
IMPLEMENTATION
We shall use the following
strategies in order to attain the project objectives:
i.
Beneficiary
Participation (Beneficiaries)
The women community leaders, youth and other targeted in the age bracket
staying in areas of operation are involved in the program implementation
particularly in community mobilisation, project implementation and community
women mapping exercise.
ii.
Alignment with national
guidelines and policies: National
guidelines and policies will be followed right from program design,
implementation, monitory and evaluation as well as dissemination. The key
national guidelines and policies to be followed are; The
National Action Plan on women 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
4th, 5th priority areas concerning Legal and Policy Frame
Work and Leadership, the Social and Economic Empowerment of women, Reproductive
Health and Rights with responsibilities, the Girl Child and Education, Peace
Building and Conflict Resolution with Freedom from violence respectively. Here,
the 4th priority of the girl child education will be more
emphasised. Other key national guidelines and policies will include national
strategic framework of HIV/AIDS activities, National monitoring and to the
PEPFAR guidelines and policies in the implementation of the program.
iii.
Quality service
Delivery: There will be a focus on delivery of quality gender and
livelihood services by incorporating a process of quality assessment and
continuous quality improvement in and the planned activities.
iv.
Linkages: We shall develop and maintain strong linkages with other
national and local stakeholders concerning women in development.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
There will be training and
sensitising about the project in order to establish the project to the women of
this area. This will be organised by the project core team selected among
members of the organisation totalling to 8 women leaders.
Several seminars will be put in
place that will talk about different problems and how we hope the project will
work on them. This initial sensitisation programme will end with radio talk
shows in which TKRCDA members and other members from the public e.g. local
women councilors, extension workers will affirm to the public about the project
activities and ask public support towards the success of the project.
During the sensitisation
process, the project core team in collaboration with the public, local
councils, organisation existing staff and other stakeholders will skillfully
select 24 women who can be good example to the public to train as women welfare
councilors to the other people about questions concerning the project and how
to go about it. These 24 will be trained in different activities in which our
project will be entitled to, at least 2 women from each parish.
During these training,
facilitators with local languages about livelihood, reproductive health, gender
subject matter above will be called upon to give lectures to these
trainees.
The organization will recruit a
coordinator for this project and 3 social workers, all of them women. Women in
this area will be sensitised on their roles in order to effect meaningful
development. Concepts to handle in this case will include socialisation,
gender relations, Gender Division of Labour, Gender Roles considering
Productive and Reproductive, Access and Control over resources and Benefits,
Practical Gender Needs, Strategic Gender Needs as well as the approach on the
Women in Development, Gender and Development, Gender Equality, Gender equity
and Empowerment. All these will pull the confidence of women in this area to
take equal positions with men in opportunities.
They will participate and
benefit equally from the development process through given resources, the
awareness creation and the power to make decisions about their own lives and
get involved in executing them.
Also, policies passed by
parliament that favours them will be passed on to the grass root women.
The incubator will also be
introduced which will facilitate to develop chicken rearing as a commercial
alternative to the income generating enterprise activity for the women.
We shall give initially 50
chicks to each family and at the end of 4-6 months the chicken stock will be
sold as guided by the organization depending on whether they are layers chicks
or broilers chicks
The existing market for chicken
in hospitals, schools, hotels, tourist centers and restaurants around the area calls for such enterprise. Chicken
demand arises as for its good taste, resistance to disease, early and cheap to
manage under local environment. The efficient utilisation of poor feed resource
base, more tasty eggs and meat (fresh), the good broadness with Excellency
motherly qualities, the sizeable weight, the plumage colour and design, good
forage feeding are also added qualities for its demand. This puts it a priority
in programmes to alleviate poverty. More market for ceremonial functions like
marriage introduction, child birth and naming, all this makes it rank high
compared to other farming enterprises hence the existing market opportunity,
Government NAADS Programme.
Poultry: TKRCDA
will procure 10,000 Layers (Hisex Brown), 2200 Broilers,
20,000 Nile Tilapia, and 10,000 African cat Fish.
These will be set up at a project demonstration farm, an will act as source of
revenues to run project and also fund individuals and groups to run same
projects for their basic needs, Revenues will also be used as funds to sponsor children
from targeted populations as stated in our objectives.
Later, 1800 pullets and 180
parent stock cocks for the purpose of getting fertilised eggs that will be
hatched through the project incubator acquired by the organization/Association.
The hatched chicks will be kept in brooder for one month and later given to
women with a minimum of 50 chicks per farm family, so at the end of the project
more than 1,240 household families will have benefited. The operation of
hatching and incubating the eggs will be done by the organisation on its
premises and its support staff.
Prior to receiving of these
chicks, they will be trained on housing semi intensively, planting greens as
feeds for chicken and feeding chicken and generally the management and diseases
control.
The organisation will take
record of whoever has beneficiary for the purpose of keeping track. Technical
guidance including vaccines by organisation, district and other organisation
liaised with will be provided to women in order to keep track and avoid loss.
Every beneficiary will be required to pay 10% to the organisation after sale to
allow sustainability and for the use of other members to benefit. We encourage
to sale 4-6 months maturity.
The incubator intake is 3,600
eggs per month thus 21 days. So with a hatch failure of 2% 3,528 will be
produced per month. This will lead to an average family earning 360,000/= after
every 5 months and also fertility of soil as a result of chicken
waste/droppings to their garden.
Fish Ponds: In addition to 20,000 Nile Tilapia, and 10,000 African cat Fish,
two Fish pond each of 600m2 will be excavated in the 2 sub-counties
in each of targeted areas and will be run by selected women groups with the
guidance of technical staff. 1,500 Tilapia species and 300 Clarias, will be
introduced in each pond, that will bring an income of 14,580,000/= after 11
months from each pond considering the farming failure of 10%. Of the income,
10% will be for the organisation and the rest shared by the group members as
well as continuation of business.
Bee keeping as a technological option will respond to the women
household income, nutritional demand and market opportunities as well as
increasing environmental care and responsibility in this area. This will base
on our previous intervention on agro forestry and managing the existing tree
species in the community. It will be a commercial rearing of honey bees in the
region. In addition bees pollinate crops like beans, oil seeds, fruit vegetables
and hence increase crop yields. So the existing multipurpose flowering trees,
bushes herbs and ornamentals will support the enterprise today identifying 20
beneficiaries. The Kenya Top Bar Hive (KTB) will be used and the hives
will be purchased and distributed to 20 women active beneficiaries. Every
beneficiary will get 5 hives and will be able to produce 15 Kg of organic honey
from each hive after 6 months. In so doing, an average farmer will earn
600,000/= after 6 months i.e. 1 Kg costs 8,000/=.
Counseling services will be
offered in the process of tackling cross cutting challenges; women will be
encouraged to test their blood in order to know their status. Families will be
advised on HIV/AIDS prevention, control, care and support. Prevention of Mother
to Child Transmission (PMTCT) will be at their fingertips and will be
emphasized
Reproductive health committees
managed by ladies will be set that will address early and forced marriages,
reduction of infant and maternal mortality rate as well as cross cutting
challenges like HIV/AIDS. The social workers will have extra technical
skills in handling this sector mainly to women.
Elective welfare committees
will be set at parish levels composed of 6 members where every village will be
represented and will focus on women development consolidation. Welfare clubs
will be set at sub-county level handling games and recreation issues.
OUTCOME
v 70% decrease in number of women who do not know their rights
and policies that favour them.
v Over 75% increase in skills acquisition of enterprise
management by women.
v Over 60% decrease in reproductive health cases to women and
malnutrition to children.
v Over 70% increase in income generating and food availability
to households within the region.
v Increase in household transition to more independent
sustainable environment.
v Strengthen organizational capacity of GFCD to handle issues
related to women especially in rural communities.
v Over 45 different products being sold through the craft
outlet in the national park to tourists.
v Over 80% decreases in early and forced marriages as well as
increase in level of dietary products to women and children.
v Government, international NGOs and other partners in their
efforts of achieving millennium development goals will pick interest in
Griffith Foundation for community Development.
v The impact of the project will be rolled to other areas
outside besides the areas of target
v 40% reduction in prostitution by young girls’ who are
looking for money.
INDICATORS
·
Women welfare communities
and clubs in place.
·
Project team in place.
·
Presence of one
incubator, pullets, parent stock cocks and brooder house.
·
Presence of 20 women bee
keepers and 100 bee hives with honey processing equipment.
·
Shop outlet for women
crafts in place.
·
Counselling services
being offered regarding HIV/AIDS prevention and control.
·
6 fish ponds in place in
the 2 sub counties, 3 in each being operated by women in groups.
·
Lower recorded maternal
and infant mortality rate in hospitals and health centres.
·
Change in domestic
income and diet.
·
Radio talk shows on the
programme running at least twice every month.
·
2 motor cycles and 12
bicycles in place.
·
Requirements like solar
systems, generators, projector, medical kits, video camera, and fish material
in place.
·
Seminars running on
women empowerment in every Sub County and parishes.
·
Three computers with
their accessories in place.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
Although we shall use external
evaluators, we shall have an internal system of evaluation where stakeholders
in the project will sit and see performance standards which will be based on
for evaluations thus measuring performance. This will apply to staff, women
welfare councilor and active beneficiaries. This will be done quarterly.
Meeting of staff and women welfare councilors will be done every after two
weeks at the headquarters and rolled to different branch offices.
Duties and responsibilities to
stake holders will be set in away of systematically analysing and documenting
the important facts about their duties in line with the project
objectives.
Behavioural feedback will
be based on specific, observable or verifiable data and information and will be
delivered as close to the events or behavioral as possible in the course of
work. Impacts of performance will be discussed along with organization
policies. Stakeholders will receive timely, frequent and specific feedback so
as to understand what is expected of them to repeat successful performance and
to improve their work when necessary. During the internal evaluation, members
who are not part of the implementing team or project team will handle it as
performance standards are written and are clear. Means like simple tools as
questionnaires, simple survey, interviews will be used to carry out the activity
and evaluation.
The project coordinator will
prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports and will also prepare reports as
required by the Funding Organization.
SUSTAINABILITY
The community will jealously
guard the interest of the project thereby achieving community security. The
project is not political from the basis of the organisation, objectives thus
has good will of protection as it focuses mainly on women in development. Our
activities will be done recognizing the role of local government and other
stake holders.
At the end of the project
cycle, there will be sustainability as a result of organisation follow up
through its permanent staff. Also women welfare communities and clubs will be
structures for continuity as they offer change in their elective
positions.
Profit sustaining enterprises
as earlier demonstration like local chicken, bee keeping, craft outlet, and
fish farming will offer minimal percentage of about 10% to the organization for
sustainability.
The organization’s permanent
staff will follow up in the course of doing their duties at the end of the
project cycle. We also feel that though our frequent reporting; giving
copies to government suitable policies will be developed on women using the
right instruments.
