for Sustainable Agriculture Education for Women in Nigeria
Strategic Objective: ! Improved household incomes in Northern Nigeria
Relevant IRs and sub-IRs for this project (with corresponding Results Framework numbers): ! Improved access to agricultural education for women (IR 2.1); ! Increased understanding of alternative agricultural methods (IR 3)
PART ONE
Project Component/Activity Cluster: Mobilization Partner with schools and reach out to local government and community leaders.
Rationale: In order to build support from the community, the local government and prominent community members need to be involved in spreading the message of our organization. Community leaders are usually also religious leaders, who will be instrumental in influencing opinions about womens involvement in agriculture.
Target Audience(s): Schools (aumin, teacheis, tiaineis), local goveinment officials, community leaueis anu membeis
Timing of Activities: Fiist S months of pioject, foi establishment anu builuing of connections
Frequency of Activities: Baily community engagement; Nonthly check-in with uppei- level leaueis; Nonthly hosteu activity in community
Duration of Activities: 2-S houis pei meeting with each community leauei, school, etc.
Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization anu the local goveinment
Additional Comments: Nobilizing community leaueis will allow us to ieach scale moie efficiently as it will ieuuce the time anu cost of conuucting outieach to inuiviuual community membeis.
Project Component/Activity Cluster: Organizational Capacity Development Tiaining oui staff anu community leaueis togethei to become agiicultuial euucation tiaineis.
Rationale: The tiaining of oui staff anu the local community tiaineis will take place simultaneously so that the 0.S. staff aie familiai with the conuitions in the aiea. This will be both moie financially efficient anu will builu tiust between the 0.S. tiaineis anu local community tiaineis.
Target Audience(s): Teacheis in the local communities anu oui new staff hiies
Timing of Activities: Following completion of the fiist mobilization campaign (Nonth 4)
Frequency of Activities: S uaysweek
Duration of Activities: Seveial houis pei uay foi appioximately one month
Implementing Entity: Our organization
Additional Comments: Local community membeis that aie tiaineu in pioviuing agiicultuial euucation will be able to iepeat tiainings, cieating an exit foi the pioject.
Project Component/Activity Cluster: Individual Capacity Development This consists of the actual agiicultuial tiaining of female community membeis.
Rationale: Impioving women's access to agiicultuial euucation will allow them to engage in sustainable faiming to boost theii incomes. The local community tiaineis aie key facilitatois of the tiainings.
Target Audience(s): Noithein Nigeiian women living in iuial aieas
Timing of Activities: Following completion of 0iganizational Capacity Builuing (Nonth S)
Frequency of Activities: S uays pei week
Duration of Activities: S houisuay foi two months
Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization's tiaineis anu local community tiaineis
Additional Comments: Inuiviuual women who complete the agiicultuie euucation tiainings can also ieciuit otheis anu help oui pioject achieve scale.
Project Component/Activity Cluster: Supply Improvement/ Demand Generation Incieasing uemanu foi agiicultuial euucation thiough foiums about the benefit of women in agiicultuie.
Rationale: Raising community awaieness about the impoitance anu benefit of women in agiicultuie will help inciease suppoit of women woiking outsiue of the householu.
Target Audience(s): Women (age 1S+), community membeis (men anu women)
Timing of Activities: Fiist S months uuiing Nobilization component
Frequency of Activities: Weekly hosteu foium in uiffeient communities (uepenuing on aiea)
Duration of Activities: 1 houi
Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization togethei with community leaueis
Additional Comments:
Project Component/Activity Cluster: Knowledge Generation Auopting mateiials (tiaining piactices, guiues, etc) to euucate women in basic agiicultuial piouuction piactices.
Rationale: 0ui assumption is that women aie neithei knowleugeable noi paiticipatoiy in the agiicultuial sectoi anu uo not have access to euucational agiicultuial mateiials.
Target Audience(s): Women
Timing of Activities: 0ngoing seasonal euucation
Frequency of Activities: Baily euucationhanus-on tiaining, with monthly focus changing accoiuing to season using auopteu mateiials
Duration of Activities: S houisuay, 6 uays a week
Implementing Entity: Our organization
Additional Comments: We intenu to utilize men as a knowleugeable iesouice foi effective agiicultuial piactices.
Project Component/Activity Cluster: Material Assistance Pioviuing incentive to encouiage women to become euucateu in agiicultuie as well as incentive foi teacheistiaineis to paiticipate in the pioject.
Rationale: 0ffeiing an incentive will help inciease a uemanu anu if the seivice is of high quality, the uemanu will be sustaineu even aftei an incentive is no longei offeieu.
Target Audience(s): Bouseholu membeis anu teacheistiaineis
Timing of Activities: Fiist yeai incentive foi paiticipants; all thiee yeais incentive foi teacheistiaineis
Frequency of Activities: Eveiy time women paiticipate in euucational activities foi a week; teacheistiaineis ieceive a stipenu once a month
Duration of Activities: Bistiibuteu at the enu of eveiy week's paiticipation
Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization
Additional Comments:
PART TWO
Scale Plan: Initially, the project will run in only one community with one partner school. Scale will be achieved through the creation of an association of certified agricultural trainers that will introduce the trainings into new areas.
Sustainability Plan: We will maintain an enabling environment by keeping local government officials and community leaders and members informed of the benefits of our project. We will maintain behavioral change by consistently ensuring that participants are benefiting from our service through formative assessments of participants ability to implement sustainable agricultural techniques that generate additional income for their households. The benefits of local womens adoption of sustainable agriculture will not expire, as once learned these techniques can be implemented as long as environmental conditions remain relatively stable.
Exit Plan: The main thing that we will leave behind is the association of agricultural trainers that will be able to train women in additional communities for a small fee. This will allow our organization to phase over the training responsibilities to the local community, while phasing out both the subsidy that the participating women were receiving and the stipend that teachers were receiving from the organization.