PROPOSAL FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF WOMEN
PROJECT TITLE:
CAPACITY BUILDING OF NYARURAMBI KWEYAMBA WOMEN GROUP (NKWG) P.O RUKIGA COUNTY
KABALE DISTRICT.
PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF NYARURAMBI KWEYAMBA WOMEN GROUP (NKWG)
LOCATION: NYARURAMBI TRADING CENTRE KABALE DISTRICT.
DURATION: 4 YEARS (2007-2010)
PROJECT COST/BUDGET: 50,000.000= (fifty million Uganda shillings)
3RD NOVEMBER 2006
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) will be located in Nyarurambi Parish, Mparo Sub-County, Rukiga County in Kabale District. The project will last two years 2007-2010. The implementing organization is NAADS the contact office is at Mparo Sub-County.
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) is initiated in this area by the author in 2007 with skills obtained from Makerere University.
It is assumed that Uganda in general, and the project area in particular have been enjoying peace and stability during the period of project implementation. In addition, it is assumed that some of the fruits of the structural adjustment programme such as increased agricultural produce prices will be felt by grass root women producers at the farm-gate. This will be assisted by the roads improvement programme executed by the Local Government Development project (LGDP) as well as the government and other donors.
The project design will emphasize issues of flexibility during implementation. Adjustments in design will include the incorporation of poverty eradication programmes, improved home programmes, the implementation of the revolving credit fund and the establishment of the liaison office in Kampala.
The project will take off with the entire grass root women of Nyarurambi Parish geographical area. They will be exposed to a variety of skills agriculture, bookkeeping and financial management, loan acquisition and servicing crafts, zero grazing, retail shop management, mushroom growing, pottery, poultry, piggery and adult literacy skills.
The skills realized from NKWG will be extended to other women groups in the neighboring parishes to empower them also in their day-to-day activities. The income realized from the improved services will facilitate women to realize quality of life in their families and even assist their husbands to uphold their children in school and pursue further education.
The local contribution to the project will be land on which the project activities will be carried out. About 100 acres of land are projected for this purpose.
A total funding of 50,000.000=Ugandan shilling (fifty million shillings only). This money is required to purchase the inputs to this project.
Definition of capacity building
Capacity building is a priority issue within development planning and refers to the development of sustainable skills, organizational structures, resources and commitment towards improvement in income and quality of life. Capacity building activities are integral to developing and improving the quality and effectiveness of organizational services.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) is a grassroot project established by a group of women residing at that time at Nyarurambi Parish in Rukiga County, Kabale District in western Uganda. This is a mountainous area with rich agricultural soils. The climate presents a bimodal rainfall pattern with the possibility of two growing seasons during the calendar year. The average annual rainfall ranges from 800 to 1 500 mm depending on the year and the ecological zone at the latitude -1.1644444, longitude 30.0588889 and with a population of about 3000 people.
This project was conceived through needs assessment survey (NAS), because of women’s outcry for poverty eradication through local government capacity building programmes at all levels of community development. Women have been marginalized for many years hence this project is inline with the government aims of liberating women from their current situation of hopelessness to that of empowered women through programmes like “boona bagagawale” (let all be rich initiative). This project will impact heavily on socio-economic, political and psychological life of women in the study area in particular and Uganda in general. To lead a productive life in order to participate in poverty reduction and general well being, women must acquire life skills in development strategies by effectively managing their income generating activities. To do this, they need external help in training, supporting, coordinating and stabilizing their capacities (empowerment).
The project is intended to bring together in partnership social institutions like Makerere University, Private Sector, business Consultants, the Government, NGOs, multinationals and experts in poverty reduction like RevConsults.
PROJECT STATEMENT
In Nyarurambi, there is a big number of people badly hit by high levels of poverty and illiteracy. The people badly affected persons are women and girls between the ages of 14-40 years. There is a general low standard of living amongst the entire community. The communication networks in this area are poor more especially the road networks connecting the villages to the trunk roads. There is a high rate of alcohol drinking more especially local gin (enguli) which take most of the valuable time of most of the village dwellers especially men and young boys. Gambling and other games of chance make the day for most the youth both female and male.
NKWG is being set to tackle some of these serious social problems in order to raise the standards of living in this parish and transform the community through capacity building initiatives.
PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE
Despite development efforts put in place by the current government in Uganda, poverty is growing both in absolute and relative terms. There are an increasing number of households living below the poverty line, and the disparities between these and other households is increasing. One of the few development strategies that have been shown to sustain impact upon the poor is that of capacity building. The provision of skills in developmental issues to the disadvantaged is very vital to liberate them out of their situation. Capacity building interventions have been shown to be particularly effective when targeted at women. This is because women tend to be more “responsible” in terms of their management of the household income and also because the benefits of women’s investments tend to accrue more often to the most marginalized and vulnerable members of the household.
Therefore this project aims at addressing poverty problems in this parish and transform the community into citizen with high standards of living with improved economic activities as well as literacy skills thus self reliant (empowerment). It is expected that many grass root women will acquire a variety of skills necessary.
LITERATURE REVIEW
The project is in line with the objectives of Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR) which is a United States based non profit organization that provides grassroots NGOs with on-site organizational capacity building, personnel empowerment training and strategic guidance in the promotion and protection of human rights and through online human rights mentoring. Most of HSHR's work is targeted towards NGOs that work on women's political and economic empowerment and legal literacy. HSHR's working principles are to strengthen local groups by serving as a listener, provide guidance in critical thinking and offer technical and professional skills training that is tailored to the local environment within which each NGO works. HSHR's capacity building focuses on two key areas - sustainable organizational development and strengthening the NGO's thematic area of human rights work, for example women and micro enterprise development.
This project is also in line with International Center for Research on Women’ s (ICRW) mission, which is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health, and social status in low- and middle-income countries.
Also in line with the project is the project of Women’s Funding Network (WFN) which was founded in 1985 and located in the United States, the Women's Funding Network is an international partnership of more than 90 women and girls' funds and philanthropic organizations. Committed to changing society by improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally, and internationally, Women's Funding Network works to strengthen and empower member funds.
Women of Uganda Network’s (WOUGNET) mission which is to promote and support the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable development. The new ICTs, in particular, email and the Internet facilitate communication with each other and the international community. Indeed, access to information about best practices, appropriate technologies, ideas and problems of other groups working on similar concerns have been identified as critical information and communication needs of women organisations in Africa.
The project is also in agreement with Plan for Modernization of Agriculture (PMA, 2000) which puts emphasis on the participation of women in community activities that include leadership, development, civic education, agriculture, literacy and so on.
The local government Act 1996 is also in line with this project. The Act stipulates that women must occupy 30% of all positions of the Local Council structure while people with disabilities occupy 20% of these positions (male and female). This also is supported by the views of women advocates who argue that women’s political participation is promoted as long as they remain within the political status quo (Tamale 2001, Nabacwa 2002). They go ahead to say by allowing women to participate in political activities, it contributes significantly to their level of capacity to develop.
PROJECT GOAL
The goal for Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) is to provide capacity building skills to grass root women living in the administrative boundaries of Nyarurambi Parish.
PROJECT VISION
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) envisions a knowledgeable community of women, trained, equipped with a range of skills and capable of influencing and making decisions at various levels of development.
NKWG'S OBJECTIVES ARE:
To develop and promote entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, among the NKWG membership.
To promote the acquisition of technical skills and technology among women members of NKWG.
To provide credit facilities to the members of NKWG.
To improve the access, and utilization of information to women members of NKWG
To develop and improve the management capability of the Group’s Secretariat
NKWG ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
The following activities will be undertaken during the project period 2007-2010
• Advertise the post of Project manager and the assistant
• Open a project office in Nyarurambi Parish
• Set up the project committee
• Conduct sensitization seminar for the women of the project area
• Employ two casual labourers
• Equipping women with skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship.
• Equipping members with technical skills.
• Provide women members with credit facilities.
• Providing women with improved information
• To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat
• Build the capacity of Community Based Organisations and Grant making support, as and to when available.
• Form NKWG Development Fund Partnership
• General monitoring
• Evaluation of the project
• Reporting
WORK PLAN 2007-2010
ACTIVITY IN CHARGE TIME TARGET INPUTS
i Employ two casual labourers Personnel assistant 1 month labourers Labour
ii Advertising the posts Personnel assistant 1 month Manager and assistant Personnel
iii Opening office NKWG executive 1 week Project office
iv Setting up project committee NKWG Executive 1 month Project committee Stakeholders
v Sensitization seminars Project Facilitators 1 month Women Facilitators
vi Equipping women with skills Project personnel 2 months Women Facilitators
vii Provide women with credit facilities NKWG Accountants 1 month Beneficiaries Credit schemes
viii Provide women with improved information Project Facilitators 3 months Target group Experts
ix To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat Experts 2 months Members of management Experts
x Build capacity of donors Project facilitators 3 weeks Funders Workshops
xi Form devt partnership Project coordinator 7 months Agencies Seminars
xii General monitoring All stakeholders On going Personnel Personnel
xiii Evaluation of the project Project committee 1 month Personnel and stakeholders Personnel / funds
xiv Reporting External auditors 3 weeks Personnel Stationery
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The project is estimated to last four years 2007-2010. The table below illustrates the different activities involved during the project life.
2007 2008 2008 2010
ACITIVITY
Employ two casual labourers xxxxxxxxx
Advertising the posts xxxxxxxxxx
Opening office xxxxxxxxx
Setting up project committee xxxxxxxxxx
Sensitization seminars xxxxxxxxx
Equipping women with skills xxxxxxxxx
Provide women with credit facilities xxxxxxxx
Provide women with improved information xxxxxxxxxx
To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat xxxxxxxxx
Build capacity of donors xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Form devt partnership xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
General monitoring xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Evaluation of the project xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
Reporting xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
FINANCIAL PLAN
Government agencies contribution 15,000,000=
Donor agencies 20, 000,000=
Well-wishers 10,000,000=
Fundraising 5,000,000=
Grand total 50,000,000=
NKWG DEVELOPMENT FUND PARTNERSHIP GRANT
The aim of NKWG Development Fund Partnership Grant is to: -
• To build the capacity, support and encourage grass root indigenous women groups working in communities to grow.
• To share, empower and pass on beliefs, in the strengthening of women in Nyarurambi in particular and Uganda in general to set their own agendas and develop their own solutions.
• To share roles and become partners in a joint effort, towards a better world, for the grassroots women.
• Reach out to and provide resources to smaller groups, who have limited knowledge and access to grant support opportunities.
NKWG DEVELOPMENT FUND PARTNERSHIP WILL WORK IN FOUR AREAS:
• Women's skill empowerment
• Economic empowerment
• Technological empowerment
• Modern agriculture and farming activities.
BENEFITS AND BENEFICIARIES
The beneficiaries of this project will be grass root women within Nyarurambi geographical boundary. They will be exposed to a variety of skills related to building their capacity in order to live a reasonable life. These beneficiaries will be grouped into subgroups to carry out different activities so as to exploit the comparative advantages the project will provide.
TARGET GROUP
a) Grassroot women.
b) School dropouts will be considered in the near future.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
The periodical report will be written and submitted to the donor to enable the monitoring of the progressive implementation of the project as well as the evaluation of performance of the project and give remedial advice if necessary.
The project evaluation will be done to cross check the project’s performance and achievements, particularly in relation to project beneficiaries and assess the project impact on the development and social well-being of the Nyarurambi grass root women. Also evaluation will be carried out to examine the sustainability of project activities in terms of cost- effectiveness, community participation, cost sharing and recovery after a given period of time.
In addition to traditional methods of evaluation, the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methodologies to carry out a Participatory Evaluation (PE) will be applied. The PE was will be conducted in the whole parish villages in the project area to ascertain the beneficiaries opinions and perceptions on project interventions, participation, and sustainability.
APPRECIATION
The Project implementation will start 2007 and is expected to have gained momentum by 2008 and significant impacts are expected at this stage. The project impacts are expected to be as the result of project interventions, since there are other programmes funded by the government, as well as other donors and NGOs in the project area. Furthermore, the impacts are expected to be brought about by the prevalence of peace and by macro-economic adjustments, particularly on development of markets and increases in agricultural produce, are more significant than those to which the project will contribute.
Notwithstanding the above factors, the project impacts are expected on the following fronts.
(a) Agricultural Support
This component is expected to be effective in carrying out its mandate and creating an impact on the target population. Adaptive trials and demonstrations are expected to be effectively undertaken, and therefore the demonstrative impacts on women farmers will be virtually positive while improved seed and plant materials are expected to be effectively propagated in sufficient quantities to have a measurable impact on local women farms. The extension services are expected to reach women farmers with the help of NAADS programme through NKWG.
(b) Access Roads
NKWG anticipates, the impact of access tracks on community services and marketing to be favourable. Beneficiaries are expected to benefit from local trade, with more traders coming in, produce buyers renting shops for storage purposes, agricultural produce prices increased significantly.
(c) Revolving Credit Fund
Disbursements of credit from project resources is expected to commence as soon as the project starts operating and is expected to yield considerable positive impacts on the grass root women. In social terms, this cohesive women group will be exercising regular savings and conducting regular meetings are established and trained conducted by the project’s cooperative Department.
(d) Coordination & Management
The overall project management is expected to be satisfactory. This is simply because the secretariat expects to bring all stakeholders on board trough regular interaction of all members in both implementation and evaluation of the project activities.
PROJECT SUSTAINABILTY
The NKWG project will be supervised regularly to ensure that it is kept on the right track. The beneficiaries will be highly involved so that they become part and parcel f the project so that they become owners of the project rather than being mere beneficiaries.
REPORTING
NKWG project will prepare and present a progressive report at each stage of the project development. This report will consist of the progress and setbacks of the project.
The final report will consist among other items of the sincere evaluation of the entire project taking into consideration the importance of the project on the life of the people in Nyarurambi Parish.
CAPACITY BUILDING OF NYARURAMBI KWEYAMBA WOMEN GROUP (NKWG) P.O RUKIGA COUNTY
KABALE DISTRICT.
PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR CAPACITY BUILDING OF NYARURAMBI KWEYAMBA WOMEN GROUP (NKWG)
LOCATION: NYARURAMBI TRADING CENTRE KABALE DISTRICT.
DURATION: 4 YEARS (2007-2010)
PROJECT COST/BUDGET: 50,000.000= (fifty million Uganda shillings)
3RD NOVEMBER 2006
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) will be located in Nyarurambi Parish, Mparo Sub-County, Rukiga County in Kabale District. The project will last two years 2007-2010. The implementing organization is NAADS the contact office is at Mparo Sub-County.
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) is initiated in this area by the author in 2007 with skills obtained from Makerere University.
It is assumed that Uganda in general, and the project area in particular have been enjoying peace and stability during the period of project implementation. In addition, it is assumed that some of the fruits of the structural adjustment programme such as increased agricultural produce prices will be felt by grass root women producers at the farm-gate. This will be assisted by the roads improvement programme executed by the Local Government Development project (LGDP) as well as the government and other donors.
The project design will emphasize issues of flexibility during implementation. Adjustments in design will include the incorporation of poverty eradication programmes, improved home programmes, the implementation of the revolving credit fund and the establishment of the liaison office in Kampala.
The project will take off with the entire grass root women of Nyarurambi Parish geographical area. They will be exposed to a variety of skills agriculture, bookkeeping and financial management, loan acquisition and servicing crafts, zero grazing, retail shop management, mushroom growing, pottery, poultry, piggery and adult literacy skills.
The skills realized from NKWG will be extended to other women groups in the neighboring parishes to empower them also in their day-to-day activities. The income realized from the improved services will facilitate women to realize quality of life in their families and even assist their husbands to uphold their children in school and pursue further education.
The local contribution to the project will be land on which the project activities will be carried out. About 100 acres of land are projected for this purpose.
A total funding of 50,000.000=Ugandan shilling (fifty million shillings only). This money is required to purchase the inputs to this project.
Definition of capacity building
Capacity building is a priority issue within development planning and refers to the development of sustainable skills, organizational structures, resources and commitment towards improvement in income and quality of life. Capacity building activities are integral to developing and improving the quality and effectiveness of organizational services.
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) is a grassroot project established by a group of women residing at that time at Nyarurambi Parish in Rukiga County, Kabale District in western Uganda. This is a mountainous area with rich agricultural soils. The climate presents a bimodal rainfall pattern with the possibility of two growing seasons during the calendar year. The average annual rainfall ranges from 800 to 1 500 mm depending on the year and the ecological zone at the latitude -1.1644444, longitude 30.0588889 and with a population of about 3000 people.
This project was conceived through needs assessment survey (NAS), because of women’s outcry for poverty eradication through local government capacity building programmes at all levels of community development. Women have been marginalized for many years hence this project is inline with the government aims of liberating women from their current situation of hopelessness to that of empowered women through programmes like “boona bagagawale” (let all be rich initiative). This project will impact heavily on socio-economic, political and psychological life of women in the study area in particular and Uganda in general. To lead a productive life in order to participate in poverty reduction and general well being, women must acquire life skills in development strategies by effectively managing their income generating activities. To do this, they need external help in training, supporting, coordinating and stabilizing their capacities (empowerment).
The project is intended to bring together in partnership social institutions like Makerere University, Private Sector, business Consultants, the Government, NGOs, multinationals and experts in poverty reduction like RevConsults.
PROJECT STATEMENT
In Nyarurambi, there is a big number of people badly hit by high levels of poverty and illiteracy. The people badly affected persons are women and girls between the ages of 14-40 years. There is a general low standard of living amongst the entire community. The communication networks in this area are poor more especially the road networks connecting the villages to the trunk roads. There is a high rate of alcohol drinking more especially local gin (enguli) which take most of the valuable time of most of the village dwellers especially men and young boys. Gambling and other games of chance make the day for most the youth both female and male.
NKWG is being set to tackle some of these serious social problems in order to raise the standards of living in this parish and transform the community through capacity building initiatives.
PROJECT SIGNIFICANCE
Despite development efforts put in place by the current government in Uganda, poverty is growing both in absolute and relative terms. There are an increasing number of households living below the poverty line, and the disparities between these and other households is increasing. One of the few development strategies that have been shown to sustain impact upon the poor is that of capacity building. The provision of skills in developmental issues to the disadvantaged is very vital to liberate them out of their situation. Capacity building interventions have been shown to be particularly effective when targeted at women. This is because women tend to be more “responsible” in terms of their management of the household income and also because the benefits of women’s investments tend to accrue more often to the most marginalized and vulnerable members of the household.
Therefore this project aims at addressing poverty problems in this parish and transform the community into citizen with high standards of living with improved economic activities as well as literacy skills thus self reliant (empowerment). It is expected that many grass root women will acquire a variety of skills necessary.
LITERATURE REVIEW
The project is in line with the objectives of Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR) which is a United States based non profit organization that provides grassroots NGOs with on-site organizational capacity building, personnel empowerment training and strategic guidance in the promotion and protection of human rights and through online human rights mentoring. Most of HSHR's work is targeted towards NGOs that work on women's political and economic empowerment and legal literacy. HSHR's working principles are to strengthen local groups by serving as a listener, provide guidance in critical thinking and offer technical and professional skills training that is tailored to the local environment within which each NGO works. HSHR's capacity building focuses on two key areas - sustainable organizational development and strengthening the NGO's thematic area of human rights work, for example women and micro enterprise development.
This project is also in line with International Center for Research on Women’ s (ICRW) mission, which is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health, and social status in low- and middle-income countries.
Also in line with the project is the project of Women’s Funding Network (WFN) which was founded in 1985 and located in the United States, the Women's Funding Network is an international partnership of more than 90 women and girls' funds and philanthropic organizations. Committed to changing society by improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally, and internationally, Women's Funding Network works to strengthen and empower member funds.
Women of Uganda Network’s (WOUGNET) mission which is to promote and support the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address national and local problems of sustainable development. The new ICTs, in particular, email and the Internet facilitate communication with each other and the international community. Indeed, access to information about best practices, appropriate technologies, ideas and problems of other groups working on similar concerns have been identified as critical information and communication needs of women organisations in Africa.
The project is also in agreement with Plan for Modernization of Agriculture (PMA, 2000) which puts emphasis on the participation of women in community activities that include leadership, development, civic education, agriculture, literacy and so on.
The local government Act 1996 is also in line with this project. The Act stipulates that women must occupy 30% of all positions of the Local Council structure while people with disabilities occupy 20% of these positions (male and female). This also is supported by the views of women advocates who argue that women’s political participation is promoted as long as they remain within the political status quo (Tamale 2001, Nabacwa 2002). They go ahead to say by allowing women to participate in political activities, it contributes significantly to their level of capacity to develop.
PROJECT GOAL
The goal for Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) is to provide capacity building skills to grass root women living in the administrative boundaries of Nyarurambi Parish.
PROJECT VISION
Nyarurambi Kweyamba Women Group (NKWG) envisions a knowledgeable community of women, trained, equipped with a range of skills and capable of influencing and making decisions at various levels of development.
NKWG'S OBJECTIVES ARE:
To develop and promote entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, among the NKWG membership.
To promote the acquisition of technical skills and technology among women members of NKWG.
To provide credit facilities to the members of NKWG.
To improve the access, and utilization of information to women members of NKWG
To develop and improve the management capability of the Group’s Secretariat
NKWG ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
The following activities will be undertaken during the project period 2007-2010
• Advertise the post of Project manager and the assistant
• Open a project office in Nyarurambi Parish
• Set up the project committee
• Conduct sensitization seminar for the women of the project area
• Employ two casual labourers
• Equipping women with skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship.
• Equipping members with technical skills.
• Provide women members with credit facilities.
• Providing women with improved information
• To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat
• Build the capacity of Community Based Organisations and Grant making support, as and to when available.
• Form NKWG Development Fund Partnership
• General monitoring
• Evaluation of the project
• Reporting
WORK PLAN 2007-2010
ACTIVITY IN CHARGE TIME TARGET INPUTS
i Employ two casual labourers Personnel assistant 1 month labourers Labour
ii Advertising the posts Personnel assistant 1 month Manager and assistant Personnel
iii Opening office NKWG executive 1 week Project office
iv Setting up project committee NKWG Executive 1 month Project committee Stakeholders
v Sensitization seminars Project Facilitators 1 month Women Facilitators
vi Equipping women with skills Project personnel 2 months Women Facilitators
vii Provide women with credit facilities NKWG Accountants 1 month Beneficiaries Credit schemes
viii Provide women with improved information Project Facilitators 3 months Target group Experts
ix To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat Experts 2 months Members of management Experts
x Build capacity of donors Project facilitators 3 weeks Funders Workshops
xi Form devt partnership Project coordinator 7 months Agencies Seminars
xii General monitoring All stakeholders On going Personnel Personnel
xiii Evaluation of the project Project committee 1 month Personnel and stakeholders Personnel / funds
xiv Reporting External auditors 3 weeks Personnel Stationery
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The project is estimated to last four years 2007-2010. The table below illustrates the different activities involved during the project life.
2007 2008 2008 2010
ACITIVITY
Employ two casual labourers xxxxxxxxx
Advertising the posts xxxxxxxxxx
Opening office xxxxxxxxx
Setting up project committee xxxxxxxxxx
Sensitization seminars xxxxxxxxx
Equipping women with skills xxxxxxxxx
Provide women with credit facilities xxxxxxxx
Provide women with improved information xxxxxxxxxx
To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat xxxxxxxxx
Build capacity of donors xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Form devt partnership xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
General monitoring xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Evaluation of the project xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
Reporting xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
FINANCIAL PLAN
Government agencies contribution 15,000,000=
Donor agencies 20, 000,000=
Well-wishers 10,000,000=
Fundraising 5,000,000=
Grand total 50,000,000=
NKWG DEVELOPMENT FUND PARTNERSHIP GRANT
The aim of NKWG Development Fund Partnership Grant is to: -
• To build the capacity, support and encourage grass root indigenous women groups working in communities to grow.
• To share, empower and pass on beliefs, in the strengthening of women in Nyarurambi in particular and Uganda in general to set their own agendas and develop their own solutions.
• To share roles and become partners in a joint effort, towards a better world, for the grassroots women.
• Reach out to and provide resources to smaller groups, who have limited knowledge and access to grant support opportunities.
NKWG DEVELOPMENT FUND PARTNERSHIP WILL WORK IN FOUR AREAS:
• Women's skill empowerment
• Economic empowerment
• Technological empowerment
• Modern agriculture and farming activities.
BENEFITS AND BENEFICIARIES
The beneficiaries of this project will be grass root women within Nyarurambi geographical boundary. They will be exposed to a variety of skills related to building their capacity in order to live a reasonable life. These beneficiaries will be grouped into subgroups to carry out different activities so as to exploit the comparative advantages the project will provide.
TARGET GROUP
a) Grassroot women.
b) School dropouts will be considered in the near future.
MONITORING AND EVALUATION
The periodical report will be written and submitted to the donor to enable the monitoring of the progressive implementation of the project as well as the evaluation of performance of the project and give remedial advice if necessary.
The project evaluation will be done to cross check the project’s performance and achievements, particularly in relation to project beneficiaries and assess the project impact on the development and social well-being of the Nyarurambi grass root women. Also evaluation will be carried out to examine the sustainability of project activities in terms of cost- effectiveness, community participation, cost sharing and recovery after a given period of time.
In addition to traditional methods of evaluation, the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methodologies to carry out a Participatory Evaluation (PE) will be applied. The PE was will be conducted in the whole parish villages in the project area to ascertain the beneficiaries opinions and perceptions on project interventions, participation, and sustainability.
APPRECIATION
The Project implementation will start 2007 and is expected to have gained momentum by 2008 and significant impacts are expected at this stage. The project impacts are expected to be as the result of project interventions, since there are other programmes funded by the government, as well as other donors and NGOs in the project area. Furthermore, the impacts are expected to be brought about by the prevalence of peace and by macro-economic adjustments, particularly on development of markets and increases in agricultural produce, are more significant than those to which the project will contribute.
Notwithstanding the above factors, the project impacts are expected on the following fronts.
(a) Agricultural Support
This component is expected to be effective in carrying out its mandate and creating an impact on the target population. Adaptive trials and demonstrations are expected to be effectively undertaken, and therefore the demonstrative impacts on women farmers will be virtually positive while improved seed and plant materials are expected to be effectively propagated in sufficient quantities to have a measurable impact on local women farms. The extension services are expected to reach women farmers with the help of NAADS programme through NKWG.
(b) Access Roads
NKWG anticipates, the impact of access tracks on community services and marketing to be favourable. Beneficiaries are expected to benefit from local trade, with more traders coming in, produce buyers renting shops for storage purposes, agricultural produce prices increased significantly.
(c) Revolving Credit Fund
Disbursements of credit from project resources is expected to commence as soon as the project starts operating and is expected to yield considerable positive impacts on the grass root women. In social terms, this cohesive women group will be exercising regular savings and conducting regular meetings are established and trained conducted by the project’s cooperative Department.
(d) Coordination & Management
The overall project management is expected to be satisfactory. This is simply because the secretariat expects to bring all stakeholders on board trough regular interaction of all members in both implementation and evaluation of the project activities.
PROJECT SUSTAINABILTY
The NKWG project will be supervised regularly to ensure that it is kept on the right track. The beneficiaries will be highly involved so that they become part and parcel f the project so that they become owners of the project rather than being mere beneficiaries.
REPORTING
NKWG project will prepare and present a progressive report at each stage of the project development. This report will consist of the progress and setbacks of the project.
The final report will consist among other items of the sincere evaluation of the entire project taking into consideration the importance of the project on the life of the people in Nyarurambi Parish.
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