Africa
Angola, Benin, Cape Verde, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ghana, Greater Horn of Africa, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Regional
NTCA
Rural Telecommunications Access Alliance in Africa
2003 - Ongoing
In rural and peri-urban areas of Angola, Nigeria, Senegal and Ethiopia,
there is little or no evidence of the deployment of ICTs. The Rural Telecommunications
Access Alliance (RTAA), seeks to advance universal access to telecommunications
and accelerate telecommunications sector reform and ICT-assisted development
in Sub-Saharan nations as a means to alleviate rural poverty, promote
market-oriented reforms and revive economic growth by increased involvement
of private business, communities and NGOs in the telecommunications sector.
NTCA develops and implements strategies to advance and accelerate telecommunications sector and ICT-assisted sector development through public and private alliances. At USAID’s request, NTCA undertakes tasks related to the implementation and execution of RTAA strategies and objectives to alleviate rural poverty, promote market-oriented reforms, revive economic growth, and increase involvement of private business, communities and NGOs in the telecommunications sector.
Regional
Telecommunications Restructuring Program in the SADC Countries
July
1995 – June 1999
NTCA was one of two principal subcontractors to Price-Waterhouse-Coopers
to support the expansion and improvement of telecommunications services
in the 14-country Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region.
NTCA provided long and short-term technical assistance, reviewed and made
recommendations on SADC regulatory and legal documentation, and provided
experts to serve on needs assessment teams to research the SADC countries’
telecom environments. Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland each received
an NTCA consultant for three and one half months to provide technical
assistance and training to local telecommunications officials and support
government restructuring.
Angola
NCBA
ANGOLA, Rural Group Enterprises and Agricultural Marketing (COMPLETE) Performance
Duration 09/01 - 12/05
NCBA's CLUSA International Program has adapted its training and community-based group business and market linkage development methodology developed from experience in several African countries, Central America and Asia, to the Angolan rural environment. The project worked to develop:
- a sustainable approach to rural group enterprise and agricultural business development adapted to the Angolan context;
- a network of democratic producer-owned and controlled rural group enterprises at the primary and secondary levels with the skills and knowledge to identify, initiate and manage agricultural production, processing and marketing activities;
- a more diverse and wider range of marketing and business opportunities available to the small scale producers; and
- transfer of appropriate progressive technologies to small-scale producers and agribusinesses.
To accomplish this, NCBA's CLUSA International Program implemented a community-based training system that, in keeping with adult education tenets, developed organizational and business skills needed to establish and manage improved agricultural production and marketing activities among small-scale producers. The project also focused on developing sound economic business relationships between producers, processors, transporters, and buyers.
ACDI/VOCA
Cabinda Agribusiness Development Alliance (CADA)
The
purpose of the Cabinda Agribusiness Development Alliance (CADA)
is to leverage private-sector and US donor funds together with
ACDI/VOCA’s agribusiness development expertise to increase
household wealth for a large number of families in Cabinda Province
in the far north west of Angola through the development of farmer-owned
agribusiness associations, and the strengthening of business and
market linkages for targeted cash crops.
Benin
NCBA
Benin, Integrated Family Health Project
NCBA/CLUSA is implementing the community mobilization component of the USAID-funded Benin Integrated Family Health Project under a subcontract with University Research Corporation. In this project 11 Beninois Field Agents have been trained to assist at least 60% of the villages in the 3 project sub-prefectures and 9 animators were selected and trained for the remaining 11 sub-prefectures in the Borgou Department. They assist communities to establish Health Center Management Committees which develop and implement action plans including governance of health centers and conducting of monthly health outreach and income generation activities.
Cape Verde
ACDI/VOCA
USAID-funded PL 480 Title II Food for Development Project
ACDI/VOCA’s FY 2002-2006 activities in Cape Verde are funded
by a USAID P.L. 480 Title II program. Project activities, valued at
over $15 million, involve improving natural resource management, introducing
new technologies, promoting the private sector and providing nutrition
education. These activities are financed by the monetization of U.S.-grown
corn, wheat and peas.
By working
at
the grassroots level through interrelated programs that reinforce and
maximize the contributions of all participants, ACDI/VOCA is enhancing
food security.
Microfinance
Technical Support Project
The African Development Bank contracted ACDI/VOCA to provide technical
assistance to three Cape Verdean entities to enable them to establish self-sustaining
financial service delivery mechanisms. The African
Development Bank, through its African Development Fund Microfinance Initiative
for Africa (AMINA), funded 90 days of technical assistance
delivered over a period of 14 months to three organizations involved
in the provision of microfinance services: ASDIS, OMCV and Morabi. Performance Duration 2/1/00
-4/30/00
Egypt
Agricultural
Exports and Rural Incomes (AERI)
ACDI/VOCA implemented the four-year Agricultural Exports and Rural Incomes
(AERI) Dairy and Livestock project in six governorates in Upper Egypt.
The project aims to increase rural incomes, smallholder production assets,
and on-farm and off-farm agribusiness employment. AERI staff applies
a market-driven, business-oriented approach, which employs a range of
technical and business improvement strategies that focus on small producers,
value-adding processors and private and public-sector service providers.
ACDI/VOCA
Egypt
ACDI/VOCA is working on several development projects in Egypt. The first is AgLink, which is increasing the productivity, efficiency and sustainability of SMEs in Egypt's livestock sector by delivering technical assistance and training in technology transfer, marketing services and access to credit. AgLink also facilitated several strategic alliances between U.S. and Egyptian firms that promote technology transfer, create trade, and improve processing capabilities in the animal feed and dairy industries.
ACDI/VOCA is also working on the MicroStart Programme, which is through the Social Fund for Development. The goal of the program is to build the capacity of selected micro-finance institutions (MFIs) to provide loans, on a sustainable basis, to the poor including women and other disadvantaged individuals living in the primarily rural areas of Fayoum Governorate.
The Dairy Directive Project by ACDI/VOCA aims to address malnutrition, infant mortality, and lack of safe hygienic dairy products. This will be accomplished through the improvement of the commercial dairy processing industry and the education of smallholders on proper dairy-product hygiene and practices.
NCBA
Egypt Small and Micro Enterprise Development Project
Performance Duration 06/93-07/00
Develop 5 new Egyptian foundations (NGOs) as micro-finance institutions; expand the amount of credit provided to small & micro entrepreneurs.
Eritrea
ACDI/VOCA
Rural Enterprise Investment Partnership
Performance Duration 10/96 – 4/03
Accelerates the growth of rural enterprises, both agricultural and non-agricultural, in Eritrea's primary, growth corridor. The program will employ a "food and fibre systems" approach, which includes strengthening rural financial services and business support services capacity in the target areas of Gash-Barka, Anseba and Northern Red Sea Zones.
Ethiopia
ACD/VOCA
Southern Tier Initiative for Pastoralists/Agro-Pastoralists
Performance Duration 10/16/02 – 9/30/07
The Special Objective, Improved Livelihoods of Pastoralists and Agro-Pastoralists in Southern Ethiopia, informally known as the Southern Tier Initiative, is part of USAID/Ethiopia’s assistance program in Ethiopia. The purpose of this project is to craft and implement a holistic, integrated development program, which will achieve measurable impact on improving the livelihood of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in Ethiopia’s southern tier focus zones.
2. Amhara Watershed Development
Project Duration 7/8/02 – 6/30/06 (47.8 mos.)
ACDI/VOCA is partnering with Virginia Tech and Cornell University in the "Assisting the Shift in Paradigms in Agricultural Research and Extension (ASPIRE)" project. ASPIRE is a community-focused action plan to build institutional research and extension capacity in agriculture, natural resource management, micro-finance, and micro-enterprise development in the food insecure areas of the Amhara National Regional State. ACDI/VOCA is heading the micro-enterprise component of the project, increasing and diversifying rural household cash income in partnership with public and private sector institutions through micro-finance, micro-enterprise development, demand-led entrepreneurship, and technology.
3. Agricultural Cooperatives in Ethiopia
Project Duration 9/99-9/04
The ACE program
is designed to increase rural incomes and reduce food insecurity by
improving agricultural
market efficiency. This five?year program, built upon the accomplishments
of the two?year Cooperative Union Project pilot effort (CUP) in Oromia,
will develop and promote modern, business?oriented agricultural cooperatives
that are actively involved in supplying inputs, marketing outputs,
and
providing credit. ACE will extend its cooperative strengthening activities
to the Amhara, Tigrai and Southern regions and to the Cooperative
Institute.
Activities include: strengthening the capacity of Regional Cooperative
Offices and Bureaus, increasing bargaining power of cooperatives;
increasing
the membership and participation of women in cooperatives; increasing
environmental awareness and improving natural resource management
at the
farm level; and diversifying services, products and value added.
Smallholders
Linkages Program (SHLP)
ACDI/VOCA, with the USAID Microenterprise Development Program, launched a Smallholders Linkage Program in the horticulture sub-sector of Ethiopia. This sub-sector has been identified as a major alternative agricultural profit source. Development in horticulture provides ample opportunities to farmer-members of cooperatives and exporter-producers to integrate themselves in the broader economy. In this connection, the Smallholders Linkages Program (SHLP) will also help the private sector and farmer-members diversify export options and create upstream linkages to local and national outlets.
Farmer-to-Farmer
ACDI/VOCA initiated a Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF) program in Ethiopia with the goal of supporting small-scale farmers and improving their marketing skills. A lack of experience in agricultural development, particularly cooperative development, has slowed the progress of small-scale Ethiopian farmers. To address these concerns, ACDI/VOCA’s program focuses on human resource development.
As a follow-up, ACDI/VOCA started a five-year $1.1 million FtF program in 1997. The program was geared toward increasing food security by revitalizing farmer-owned cooperatives.
In 2002, a two-year
FtF Program began assisting the regions of Gambella, Benishangul, Afar,
Somali and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Volunteers teach training courses
in cooperative organization and management, marketing, accounting,
warehouse management and finance. Cooperative representatives will
use their training to restructure, revive and strengthen the existing
primary cooperatives and form new cooperatives based on voluntary membership
and democratic decision-making that can compete in a free market economy.
Gurage
Livelihood and Agriculture Development (GLAD)
With funding from the US Agency for International Development’s Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), CHF is providing food insecure Ethiopians with technical assistance to diversify their livelihoods and generate more income. Each of the 900 food insecure families currently targeted with the intervention are learning two methods of income generation, beekeeping and more effective ways to brood chicks.
NTCA
Cooperative Development Program
2004 – Ongoing
NTCA determined the site for the first ICT cooperative in Ethiopia. With
cooperation of key stakeholders – notably the incumbent provider
Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC), the Ethiopian Telecommunication
Agency (ETA), the Federal Commission on Cooperatives and the Ministry
of Capacity Building – NTCA has begun implementing Ethiopia’s
cooperative development plan.
In order to promote the development of enabling legal/regulatory environments for ICT cooperatives, NTCA’s Nigeria team hosted a delegation of senior managers from the ETA and the ETC for a weeklong executive training seminar on latest developments in telecommunications technology, universal access, and principles of regulation and competition in a converged environment.
Guinea
Land
O'Lakes Guinea Expanded Natural Resource Management Activity
The primary objective of this project is to reduce environmental degradation by improving the productivity and profitability of agriculture near existing protected areas. Under a contract from Winrock International, Land O'Lakes is working with a Guinean organization, The Fondation Pour L'Investment et la Commercialisation Agricole (FICA), to develop an effective agricultural market information system. Useful market information will help rural-based families and clients to manage both operational and investment decisions.
NCBA
Guinea, Civil Society Strengthening Project
Expand rural group enterprises (ERAs/POs) and promote democratic participation in local government. This program assists the business development of 254 sustainable, member owned, managed, democratically run rural group enterprises (ERAs/POs) and 8 cooperative unions that are encouraged to take an active role in civic affairs. The program provides training and organizational development to 23 elected local development councils (Communautes Rurales de Developpement or CRDs) and 9 Health Post Management Committees. The program strengthens CRDs' public service management capacities, ability to mobilize resources, conduct decision-making processes in a transparent manner and develop greater dialogue among the CRDs, government representatives and communities. CLUSA field trainers provide business skills training to group enterprises and training to the CRDs in resource analyses, developing cost recovery strategies, managing local markets and other public services in more efficient, client-oriented fashion and establishing open dialogue with constituents.
Ghana
NCBA
Ghana, Government Accountability Improves Trust (GAIT) Project
The Government Accountability Improves Trust (GAIT) project operates in 10 districts with the following objectives: (1) increase the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to advocate the interest of members, (2) increase local government responsiveness to citizens at the local level, (3) improved governance, transparency and accountability in local governance, and (4) increase voter turnout and political participation of the CSOs. The program is 100% demand driven.
Greater Horn of Africa
ACDI/VOCA
Farmer to Farmer Program
ACDI/VOCA has fielded almost 200 American volunteer consultants to 67 clients in the GHA region since 1973, building the capacity of agribusiness associations that provide measurable monetary benefits to their members. The goal of the GHA Farmer to Farmer Program is to enhance food and income security by working with farmer-based associations at the grassroots level, strengthening the capacity of institutions working for agricultural development, and utilizing local capacity and technology to reach alternative domestic and international markets.
Kenya
WOCCU
Kenya
WOCCU Kenya is a $3.1 million project (9/97 – 9/02) funded by USAID’s Office of Microenterprise Development. The program’s goal is to stabilize and grow 16 Kenyan Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs), while increasing membership through microenterprise services. For more information, go to: http://www.woccu.org/development/md_country.php?cid=7.
ACDI/VOCA
Maize Development Program
Project Duration 9/25/02 – 9/30/06 (48.2 mos.)
The objective of the Kenya Maize Development Program is to increase incomes of smallholder maize farmers in rural areas through a market-driven production system. The program approach is systemic/integrated in nature and seeks to improve efficiency and benefits to maize farmers along the maize value chain: production, processing, marketing/trade and consumption.
Land
O'Lakes Improving Smallholder Dairy Development, Market Linkages and Comsumer
Nutrition Awareness Initiative
Land O'Lakes, Heifer Project International - Kenya (HPI/K), and African Breeders Service/Total Cattle Management (ABS/TCM) have been directly engaged in developing Kenya's private sector dairy industry over the years and are encouraged with the positive response and results achieved thus far. There is evident potential for continued improvement in productivity and opportunities for economic growth. Under its agreement with USAID the consortium team will undertake an intensive six-month project to build upon industry improvements and significantly advance productivity throughout the dairy farm-to-market system.
NCBA
Kenya, AMKENI - Delivery of Family Planning, Reproductive Health
and Child Survival Services
Provide training and technical assistance for community mobilization to ensure accountability and communication between communities and health facilities. CLUSA is providing technical assistance to the women's agency component of the AMKENI Project. AMKENI means "awakening" in Kiswahili. The component aims to improve the quality, availability, use and sustainability of family planning, reproductive health and child survival services in Kenya. CLUSA is mobilizing communities, organizing women's groups and building their capacities to participate in decision-making regarding health services. CLUSA is also working to build support of men and youth to improve reproductive health, family planning, child survival and HIV/AIDS services.
Farmer-to-Farmer
ACDI/VOCA is implementing the USAID-funded East Africa Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF) program in Kenya and Uganda. Over the course of the five-year project, ACDI/VOCA will send out 160 volunteers to provide technical assistance in the maize, dairy and horticulture sectors in the two countries.
Local
Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS-Grants Management (LPATH-GM)
Recognizing the impact HIV/AIDS pandemic is having throughout sub-Saharan Africa, CHF International/Kenya is now working through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to implement the program.
Liberia
Locally
Initiated Networks for Community Strenthening (LINCS)
LINCS will seek to ease the tension by building and strengthening peaceful constituencies through conflict resolution training, improving communication facilities between communities, and assisting democratic leadership by building skills and confidence in managing community security and conflict. In addition, LINCS will work with local NGOs to help accelerate the success of existing peace constituencies.
Malawi
ACDI/VOCA
National Association of Smallholder Farmers (NASFAM)
USAID funded ACDI/VOCA's Smallholder Agribusiness Development Project (SADP), launched in 1995. SADP established seven Agribusiness Development Centers (ADCs) located in key smallholder growing areas. Staff from these ADCs began by helping farmers form small Clubs at the grassroots, whose members then created informal Group Action Committees (GACs) to address a range of constraints the farmers were facing in marketing their crops (transportation, quality, storage, marketing linkages, financial services and government policies). District-level GACs subsequently formed self-financing shareholder-owned and controlled agribusiness associations, which in turn established the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM).
NASFAM through SADP and its successor, the NASFAM Strengthening Project, has helped Malawi's smallholder farmers take control of their lives and enabled them to send more children to school, buy medical services when needed, improve their families' nutrition and housing, and re-invest their profits in rural micro-enterprise activities.
Land
O'Lakes Malawi Business Dairy Development Program
The goal of Land O'Lakes dairy sector development program is to stimulate the development of a commercial viable dairy sector that will result in significant increases in rural incomes, employment opportunities, and overall performance of businesses that contribute to Malawi's GNP. The purpose is to facilitate improvements in the dairy sector resulting in efficient milk production which flows through local processing plants generating cost-effective, quality dairy products to meet consumer demand.
Mali
NCBA
Mali, Project I—Agricultural Production Program in Mali
(PRODEPAM)
The goal of the program is to increase producer incomes and foster sustainable, environmentally sound economic growth by:
- rehabilitating and expanding systems for irrigated agriculture
- developing and reinforcing the animal feed industry
- improving the natural resource base of rural communities and increasing the availability of inputs and technology
- creation of private investment opportunities in the agricultural sector, especially in irrigation, animal feed enterprises, inputs & technology that will serve small scale crop/livestock producers. Development and strengthening of producer organizations (POs) is an integral part of all project activities.
NCBA
Mali, Project II—Cooperative Business Management Capacity
Building and Advisory Services Program
Provide training and advisory services to village-based member-owned businesses (POs), community enterprises, civic action groups and NGOs. The program delivers business and institutional management training, advisory services and related technical packages (e.g. developing and implementing a business plan, registering a business, public advocacy, market information, post-literacy) to self-selected POs and organizations.
Mozambique
ACDI/VOCA
Mozambique
In 1997, ACDI/VOCA launched an $890,089 Cooperative Development Program (CDP) to strengthen Mozambique's agricultural systems through person-to-person volunteer technical assistance at the grassroots level. The USAID-funded CDP supports association development and agribusiness planning, production and marketing of high value niche products, and rural micro-finance.
In October 2001, ACDI/VOCA launched the Reinforce Business for Rural Development (RENDER) project in Manica Province, in the heartland of Mozambique. The goal of the program is to increase rural incomes by assisting motivated farmers to form member-owned associations in order to build economies of scale, increase marketing power, and facilitate business contracting. RENDER is working to strengthen management and planning skills within farmer associations, to unite these associations at the zonal and regional level to form stronger businesses, and to link these enterprises to other actors in the rural economy.
NCBA
Mozambique, Rural Group Enterprise Development Program
Development of rural group enterprises and cooperative businesses (POs). Operating in nine districts of the Nampula Province since January 1996 and six districts of Zambezia Province since early 1999, the program uses a highly participatory approach involving:
- the development of group-based rural enterprises (POs) as independent, viable private sector businesses in which smallholders (as the owners) make all the decisions for their association and are encouraged to invest their own resources and undertake initiatives to resolve their own problems; and
- the integration of commercial, private sector agents (agribusinesses, private traders and transporters) in the development of rural economic development and community based group enterprises
Nigeria
NTCA's
Cooperative Development and Universal Access Program, Nigeria
April 2002 – Ongoing
NTCA continues to build upon its prior work with the Nigerian Communications
Commission to develop and implement a nationwide universal access program.
With USAID funding, NTCA is working locally to inform communities about
rural pilots the Cooperative Development Program will support, including
small telecommunications systems and ICT-enabled, community-based organizations.
Through a series of four regional workshops, NTCA hopes to engage both
the public and private sectors to support this initiative.
Rwanda
Agribusiness
and Natural Resource Management
ACDI/VOCA was awarded a five-year USAID P.L. 480 Title II development program in February 2000. They monetize U.S. vegetable oil through monthly sealed-bid auctions. These auctions supply a scarce food commodity and facilitate the reemergence of small-trader activity and an open, competitive market. ACDI/VOCA also supports local initiatives in commercial agriculture and agribusiness development through its Food Security Grant Fund. ACDI/VOCA promotes enhanced access to markets by Rwandan farmers through the rehabilitation of roads and bridges and is working with local farmers to introduce new and improved bean varieties and increase cassava production through the introduction of mosaic virus-resistant varieties.
WOCCU
Credit Unions in Rwanda
WOCCU Rwanda is a $3 million project (8/00 to 8/05) funded by USAID Rwanda that focuses on expanding services and access to small savers and producers in rural areas. The program works intensively with 17 pilot credit unions to strengthen their performance and increase their outreach. At the same time, WOCCU Rwanda works to strengthen the national association, Union des Banques Populaires de Rwanda, which served 377,253 members country-wide as of June 2004.
Sao Tome and Principe
NCBA
Sao Tome and Principe, Institutional Development and Small Projects Fund
Provides institutional support to Zatona Adil (a local non-governmental organization/NGO) and promotes food crop (including fishing) production, processing and marketing improvements through the development of farmer and fishery associations or group businesses.
Senegal
NCBA
Senegal, Project I—Decentralized
Reforms and Local Development
This project worked to create more effective, democratic and accountable management of services and resources in local government jurisdictions. The project placed a strong emphasis on participation at the grassroots level, greater accountability of local officials, and greater transparency in local government practices.
NCBA
Senegal, Project II—Agricultural
and Natural Resources Management
The goal of this project is to facilitate the sustainable, profitable, decentralized use of agricultural and natural resources in the Tambacounda and Kolda areas. The project helps communities manage the rights and responsibilities devolved to them regarding natural resources management (NRM) and to increase the direct benefits they receive appropriate management of their natural and agricultural resource base.
NCBA works with community stakeholders to improve natural resource-related policies and legal, regulatory and administrative requirements that have prevented communities from taking on their management responsibilities or from benefiting from the resources.
South Africa
ACDI/VOCA
Community Entrepreneurship & Business Initiative (CEBI)
In 2000, the Community Entrepreneurship and Business Initiative (CEBI) began in the Eastern Cape City of Port Elizabeth. The focus of the program is to develop the business and financial capacity of entrepreneurs and small business owners in townships by linking historically disadvantaged businesses to mainstream businesses in the Eastern Cape region. Cooperative development principles are applied to enhance local economic development, increase access to financial markets for historically disadvantaged township residents and their businesses and create employment. ACDI/VOCA is working in partnership with the Cooperative Housing foundation (CHF), the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA).
CHF
International South Africa
The Road to Sustainability Program (RTS) is a low-income housing program to facilitate the delivery of low-cost housing by mobilizing national housing subsidies. Other activities include: outreach to low-income community members through training in building self-help housing and management, capacity building and support to emerging builders, and the delivery of technical assistance. Isandla Partners in Development is receiving technical assistance from CHF to establish itself as a legal South African institution, develop and implement a long-term strategic plan, and manage its resources.
Alliance against HIV/AIDS in Africa aims at developing an integrated approach to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa and obtaining funds from American corporations operating in South Africa to implement program interventions. The target is to raise 1.5 million dollars. Partners: @the Center and American Public Health Association.
NCBA
South Africa, Community Entrepreneurship and Business Initiative
Business Creation and Training Unit
NCBA/CLUSA is implementing the Business Creation and Training Unit (BCTU) of the Community Entrepreneurship and Business Initiative Program (CEBI) in two townships of the Port Elizabeth area. The BCTU provides training, technical assistance and encouragement to township residents developing new individually or group owned businesses or improving existing ones. Business startup, management and financial training are provided as well as technical skills training. BCTU also assists businesses in locating markets for their products and services, including learning how to bid on government and private sector contracts. The Unit also operates a computerized job referral system.
NTCA
& Anglican Church Launch Project to Combat HIV/AIDS and Poverty in
Rural South Africa
With support from the Ford Foundation, the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) and the Anglican Diocese of St. John's in South Africa have launched a two-year project in the Eastern Cape to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic and improve the impoverished rural area's local food supply.
Cooperative
Development and Universal Access Program, South Africa
April 1994 – Ongoing
With USAID funding, NTCA has been actively involved since the mid-1990s
in policy work and in advocating for the establishment of rural, cooperative
telecommunications systems. Most recently, the South African Department
of Communications asked NTCA to suggest additional legal and regulatory
modifications to the South African Telecommunications Act, which would
encourage the development of community-owned telecommunications systems.
Sudan
Building
Opportunities and Livelihoods in Darfur (BOLD)
CHF will provide land and seeds for winter crops and distribution of egg-laying chickens and donkeys to vulnerable households for food securitry. They will also implement small-scale community-identified and implemented infrastructure projects as well as shelter improvement programs. Women's Empowerment Centers will be created to provide psychosocial services and to serve as forums for discussion by affected populations. And finally, the creation of Community Diwans (traditional community meeting points) will serve as forums for discussion..
Tanzania
ACDI/VOCA
Smallholder Empowerment & Economic Growth Through Association Development
(SEEGAD)
Performance Duration 11/18/02 – 11/17/04
The goal of SEEGAD, a 2 year pilot project, is to promote activities that drive sustainable economic growth, increase cash incomes and stimulate asset accumulation among households throughout the coastal region of Tanzania. These goals will be met by empowering smallholder farmers through agribusiness and association development, which will institutionalize effective natural resource management and democratic participation while expanding economic opportunity. Activities in Tanga, the region selected for the intial phase, will focus on assiting seaweed produces to adopt efficient and sustainable business practices. Using public-private partnerships producers will be linked to international agribussiness such as FMC-BioPolymer.
Land
O'Lakes Tanzania Dairy Enterprise Initiative (TDEI)
Land O’Lakes and its subgrant recipient, World Wide Sires, are improving the productivity of Tanzania’s dairy industry in coordination with the activities of Land O’Lakes’ Cooperative Development Program. The central premise underlying the strategy of the Tanzania Dairy Enterprise Initiative (TDEI) is that marketing is the key to unleashing the potential for the dairy sector.
The marketing activities work in tandem with other elements of the program that provide training, consultation and technical assistance to:
• improve on-farm production practices (animal health, sanitary milk collection, disease control, improving genetics of the dairy herd through artificial insemination, etc.);
• strengthen cooperatives and associations by providing training on business management and organizational governance skills;
• increase the ability of milk processors to improve quality assurance
systems and manufacture improved products that are desired by the Tanzanian
consumer.
Uganda
WOCCU
Uganda
WOCCU Uganda is a $2.4 million project (9/00 –3/04) funded by USAID’s Office of Microenterprise Development. WOCCU Uganda works with 15 savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) to install financial disciplines, increase membership outreach and introduce high quality savings and credit products for members. For more information: http://www.woccu.org/development/md_country.php?cid=15
Uganda
Rural Electrification Initiative
NRECA International was asked by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to assist in assessing the viability of a rural electrification program implemented through a collaborative effort by the private sector and the national government. The government has recently begun to develop a national electrification strategy in collaboration with the World Bank, and this effort led by the IFC is being implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and the World Bank team.
NRECA has been asked to provide on-going assistance to the company that is being formed to implement these two projects, the Uganda Rural Electrification Company, Ltd. (URECL). NRECA will provide technical assistance during the design, procurement, and construction phase of implementation and will thereafter provide training, technical assistance, and oversight to URECL management for a period of five years or until the staff has adequately mastered the skills of managing the operation and expansion of the company.
ACDI/VOCA
Uganda, Food Security and Marketing for Smallholder Farmers Project
(FOSEM),
ACDI/VOCA's Food Security and Marketing for Smallholder Farmers Project (FOSEM) seeks to improve both the food security and income of smallholder farmers in five districts of Uganda: Iganga/Bugiri, Tororo/Busia, Mukono, Masindi, and Kamuli. FOSEM addresses meager agricultural production, inadequate food availability, low incomes at the producer level, insufficient post-harvest techniques, and poor marketing. These pervasive issues impede the growth of smallholder producers' production and incomes. The project strengthens food security by increasing per capita agricultural productivity, in particular, of beans, soybeans, maize and cassava. It increases food availability and rural incomes through the sales of surplus produce to local traders and exporters.
ACDI/VOCA Uganda has also been implementing the second phase of Partnership for Enhanced Productivity Program (PEP II) since October 1995. PEP II is designed to enhance the productive potential of small- and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses. The project works to improve economic well being through hands-on technical assistance and the transfer agricultural development information to resource users, policy makers, government officials, development organizations, the private sector and the general public. PEP II activities are designed to complement other USAID funded projects within Uganda.
ACDI/VOCA's Environmental Protection and Economic Development Project (EPED) in the Masindi, Hoima and Nakasongola Districts of Uganda is in the third phase of a seven-year effort funded by USAID. This multifaceted project is testing an approach that integrates economic development and environmental management with the overall goal of long-term conservation of fragile ecosystems and protected areas in the region. Central to the success of the project has been ACDI/VOCA's close relationship with the district and local governments to build environmental planning capacity.
Land
O'Lakes Uganda Private Sector Dairy Industry Development Activity
Through the development efforts of Land O'Lakes, Heifer Project International, and Worldwide Sires, rural dairy farmers and producers groups are realizing increased levels of milk production and manual productivity through the adoption of improved animal genetics and farm management practices that have led directly to increased household incomes. To ensure sustainable growth for the dairy sector, the next need is to increase dairy sector competitiveness and productivity. This will ensure that milk produced by farmers finds a ready market and provide more Ugandans access to safe, nutritious milk and milk products.
NCBA
Uganda, Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Program
This program was designed to expand economic opportunities in the Ugandan agricultural sector by increasing agricultural productivity and marketing of key food and cash crop systems. The program emphasizes the creation of economies of scale through the development of local producer organizations which will help catalyze the transformation of Uganda agriculture from low input/low output, subsistence farming to commercially competitive agriculture.
Zambia
Dairy
Enterprise Initiative for Zambia
Land O'Lakes and its local consulting partner, Zambia Agribusiness Technical Assistance Center (ZATAC) will improve the overall productivity of Zambia's dairy industry through three primary activity areas: organization of producers into milk collection groups; introduction of quality assurance systems and new product technologies to the processing sector; and aggressive sales strategies utilizing educational campaigns, industry-led domestic promotions, and regional marketing assessments to move finished product beyond Zambia's borders.
NCBA
Zambia, Project I—Rural Group Business Program
This program promotes the development of rural cooperative enterprises and group businesses (POs). CLUSA is implementing the RGB Program in 10 districts in the southern and central parts of Zambia, using the highly effective CLUSA methodology for RGB/PO development. Local RGBs group themselves into second level structures called depots which coordinate input distribution and crop dispatch. Adoption of improved farming technologies is also a major performance objective. Conservation tillage/conservation farming (CT/CF) technologies are being used extensively in project. Besides staple crops, notably maize, project farmers also grow and market sunflower, soybeans, paprika and other crops which are sold through forward contracts with agribusinesses.
NCBA
Zambia, Project II—Community-Based Natural Resources Management Program
NCBA/CLUSA is implementing a 5-year, USAID-funded Community-based Natural Resources Management Project in 2 districts of the Eastern Province. This project draws on the NCBA/CLUSA experiences in Benin and Niger to involve communities in the management of their forest resources and at the same time assists farmers in areas peripheral to the forest reserves to use intensive agricultural methods to reduce their need to expand agricultural production into protected areas. The project focuses on sustainability by linking forest conservation to profitable rural group business (RGB) development.
Zimbabwe
NCBA
Zimbabwe, Pilot Market Linkage Project (PMLP)
Under an agreement with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), NCBA/CLUSA is working with a local NGO, SAFIRE, to implement the Market Linkages Project. The project focus is assisting small scale farmers to improve their incomes and increase their role in a vastly changed economy. NCBA/CLUSA is adapting its Zambia experience to an environment where large scale farmers have greatly decreased production, providing a significant opportunity for smallholders to increase their role in commercial agriculture. NCBA/CLUSA is assisting farmers in 3 districts in Manicaland Province, Eastern Zimbabwe, by: assisting them to organize themselves into farmer enterprise groups and larger group-based organizations and providing training to the groups; extending selected improved farming technologies to the groups and assisting them to establish linkages and contracts with agribusiness inputs suppliers and commodity buyers. Conservation farming, which has greatly increased yields in Zambia, is being taught.