Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/A COMMUNITY BASED AGRO-INPUT STORES
This is an automatically generated Meta-Wiki page. The page was copied from Fluxx, the grantmaking web service of Wikimedia Foundation where the user has submitted their application. Please do not make any changes to this page because all changes will be removed after the next update. Use the discussion page for your feedback. The page was created by CR-FluxxBot.
Applicant details[edit]
Wikimedia username(s):
- nsereko_mujaahid
Organization:
- Society for Union of Muslims and Empowerment
G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?
- Did not apply previously
H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?
- Yes
H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?
- Harris International Ltd
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information[edit]
R. Where will this proposal be implemented?
- Uganda
S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:
- Local
S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)
- N/A
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- No
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Proposal[edit]
1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?
Our vision is a coherent, vibrant and informed citizenry towards national development; Uganda is an agro-based country constituting to 90% of population basing on Agriculture for their survival in terms of production, agricultural industries constitute 95% and 92% of exports are agricultural products. Agriculture contributes a greater percentage to the economic development of population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, the majority are still on traditional subsistence agriculture basing on their culture, traditions, norms and historical spheres in spite of several researches done with positive recommendations. This culminated in stagnant stay in viscous circle of poverty characterized by low capital accumulation, low instrument, low income and low savings hence absolute poverty. In the process of addressing the economic development strategy, organization has observed that the establishment of a community based Agro-Input Stores is an appropriate strategy for Agricultural transformation in the area. According to previous research that was carried out, this is due to human induced, environmental degradation, that has threatened the eco-system, monopoly in agriculture production, pests and diseases, and poor farming methods. In the due course of transforming the agriculture from traditional subsistence level to commercial and modern level, SUMAE has resorted to capacity building and skill training strategy through the establishment of a community based Agro-Input Store which will provide products and information to farmers to enable them positively increase on their Agricultural products for subsistence and commercial purposes hence overcoming problems like poverty, famine and malnutrition that is predominant in area. The geographical structure of agricultural in Uganda has been historically and culturally determine where people in northern region are basically growing cotton and tobacco, eastern region sugarcane and rice, central region banana and coffee whereas western region are best known growing millet and rearing cattle. Statistically trends are showing that at least some have started transforming and tried to introduce new crops in these areas which are known basically on the previously mentioned crops. This has been due to sensitization done by social development organizations. The dictates of nature has for so long been a catastrophe that minimizes agriculture production in sub-Saharan Africa. These include floods and drought so basing to the prevailing science and technology and previous research findings sensitization will be a front factor to address these phenomenon.
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
This project will typically focus on agricultural growing and development in greater Wakiso putting much emphasis on, skill training, capacity building, community sensitization and agricultural equipment provision to community farmers. This will be done using the approach of community integration where community leaders, and subsistence farmers, local government opinion leaders, organization management and donor community will be joined to interact in the project activities. Luckily, the processes of integration have started and no obstacles have been confronted. In the process of implication, in the first phase, agricultural development officers were consulted and agreed to provide skills and training to the clientele; this will be significant to farmer to identify modern tactics of agriculture and introduction to transformation from subsistence agriculture to commercial agriculture. Secondly, the project is aimed to establish a community based agro-input store in Wakiso district which will avail farmer agricultural items like seeds, seedlings, simple farm tools, veterinary medicine; poultry medics and this is mostly directed to donor support and facilitation. The organization has acquired land where to demonstrate small simple gardens to enable the farmer practically acquire knowledge and skills to manage their gardens. These will be model gardens. The organization will establish a field office for simple coordination of project activities and some skill training sessions will be done from there. Organization field worker officers will run the fieldwork activities where as two members of staff will remain at the office to run the daily activities at the office assisted by office secretary. The project will establish agricultural skills in farmer to enable them improve the production on quality and quantity. The project is aimed at enabling farmers to increase their income per capital to overcome the absolute poverty in the area. The project will enable farmer to identify the hidden resources that can be used to their agriculture like introduction of irrigation to minimize effect of drought. The project will also advocate for market prices where possible to enable farmer’s motivation remain high, this influencing the wellbeing of farmers.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The project will be done in different phases for proper implementation. This will be done by stakeholders including professionals, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled. Among others will include Social Workers, Agriculturalists, Community Development Workers Local Government Workers Auditors and Farmers. This will be done in specific phases:- Phase I: This will cover Baseline study from community leaders and acquiring information from the organizations that have done some research on Agriculture activities in the Area with the aim of developing a concrete assessment on their strength and weaknesses in their service delivery this will take a period of one month. Phase II: This will involve meeting farmers in their respective capacity to collect their attitudes towards the project that aimed in transforming their knowledge, magnitude agriculture, income and reclaiming their dormant land into active land to improve their productivity will be done in one month. Phase III: This will cover sensitization of farmers by giving them technics in farming both livestock and crop farming to enable them motivated and welcoming the project services and determine to grow new kinds of crops. Phase IV: This will be the official opening of Agro-Input stores to enable farmers get seeds, simple farm medicines, pesticide, animals and poultry utilities. Introduction of new possible technics that is sustainable in local farmers like irrigation, mulching crop rotation and fighting soil erosion. Improved strategy in agricultural production which minimizes the quality of the produce both in our markets and at international level. And uniting farmers through encouraging them in establishing cooperatives where they can be assisted in their future extension plans. In addition to that including farmers to start keeping records on their performance for competent assessment in their progress. This will Increase in agriculture production both livestock and crops, increases in varieties of agricultural products and shall Change the attitudes of farmers especially youth towards agriculture which for long period of time have been confronted with famine
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?
5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?
- N/A
6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geography, Socioeconomic Status, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Climate Change and sustainability, Open Technology
10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geographic , Socioeconomic status
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?
13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?
Yes
13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
Yes
14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
N/A
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
Since the project is putting much emphasis on capacity building, sensitization and skill training, it is obvious that the trained personnel will be in position to maintain the sustainability of the project due to the fact that there trained personnel will work hand in hand with the community agricultural officers, to disseminate information to communities and to sustain skills with in the selves. The transformation process will definite incidence farmers to continue applying the acquired skills having moved from subsistence to commercial farming in order to keep at their income increasing for better welfare. The community agro-based input store after this period will charge some affordable fee to farmers to enable exist this will be supplemented by volunteers from community and outside and even government.
16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.
17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Coordinate Across Stakeholders
18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.
- Yes
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.
| Main Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.
| Additional Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A |
| Number of volunteer hours | N/A | N/A |
21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | N/A | N/A |
| Number of editors | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
N/A
22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?
Financial Proposal[edit]
23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 0 USD
23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.
- N/A
Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.
- Other public document(s):
Final Message[edit]
By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.
We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
- No
Feedback[edit]
- Please add any feedback to the grant discussion page only. Any feedback added here will be removed.
- Wikimedia Community Fund/Proposals
- Wikimedia Community Fund/Proposals/Draft
- Draft General Support Funds for unknown region in FY 2023-24
- Draft General Support Funds for unknown region in FY 2023-24 (undefined round)
- General Support Funds for unknown region in FY 2023-24 (undefined round)
- General Support Funds in FY 2023-24 (undefined round)