Pierre Ferrari President and CEO Engaging Poor Communities What do these communities say they lack What are their needs Listening to the community and smallholder farmers is key to supporting and providing services ID: 629967
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Developing Social Capital: Engaging the Poorest Communities
Pierre Ferrari
President and CEOSlide2
Engaging Poor CommunitiesWhat do these communities say they lack?What are their needsListening to the community and small-holder farmers is key to supporting and providing servicesSlide3
What Role do NGOs Play?What can NGOs do to support communities?NGO perspectiveWhat has worked?What hasn’t worked?Slide4
Heifer’s Relationship to these CommunitiesHow has Heifer responded to the needs of the communities?Heifer’s approachesEADD Hub modelHow do these approaches help build social capital for the communities?Slide5
Theory of ChangeHeifer International believes that the world’s most vulnerable smallholder farmers, including women, can produce adequate food and surplus to feed their families, communities and the world, if their capacity is enhanced in combination with the right inputs.
Factors
contributing to poverty and hunger:
Marginalization, gender discrimination, lack of access to resources and services, lack of diversified livelihood opportunities, vulnerability, low income, and environmental degradation
1. Year
round availability and access to
food
2. Surplus food to markets
3. Increased
consumption of diverse and nutritious food4. Improved hygiene and water/ sanitation practices
1. Functioning Self Help Groups/farmer organizations;2. Functioning Cooperatives/ social enterprises3. Active national networks/ alliances/ social movements
1. Agro-ecological farming practices
1. Diversified sources of income 2. Increase in productive assets3. Scaled up IG activities4. Access to market and appropriate financial services
Goal: Increased global food security
Increase in income and assets
Food security and nutrition
Improved Environment
Increased Social Capital
1. Leadership roles2. Access to and control over income and assets3. Participation in decision making at household and community level
Women ‘s Empowerment
1. Context specific training and input supports (animals, seeds, plants
etc
);
2. Linkage to markets and value chain;
3. Imparting knowledge and
skills
1. Appropriate package of physical inputs2. Establishment of homestead gardens;3. Training for increased knowledge of nutrition of locally available food
1. Organize, create, and strengthen groups, coops, alliances, social movements2. Values enhancement through cornerstones 3. Social mobilization
1. Promotion of agro-ecological farming practices
1. Women’s group formation2. Prioritize women’s membership in selection criteria3. Focus on livestock species and other inputs appropriate for women’s needs4. Design projects with gender lens with specific focus on the socio-economic benefit for women
Interventions:
Outcomes:
Preconditions:Slide6
Farming
familiesCommunity-based dairy & livestock services
Hub-based
feed
enterprise
Bulk milk buyers
& consumers
Village Groups
DMG / DIG / DFG
Dairy Hub
CP or TM
Unique Approach
Community-based
Dairy Hub Business Framework
Other
hub-based enterprises
Community-based
banking & credit servicesSlide7
TESTING
FARMERS
FIELD DAYS
VILLAGE BANKS
OTHER RELATED MEs
CHILLING HUB
How the Hub Works – Virtuous Cycle of Buyers & SellersSlide8
Food Security & Social CapitalImportance that women-centered programs have in improving the communityExamples of community engagement and women empowerment within the projects Heifer works. Slide9
In Nepal, SEW Cooperatives are determined to put "social" back into social enterprises. They are comprised of small-scale farmer families, each represented by a woman,
and provide a voice for their community’s needs and build rapport with local governments and other resource providers. Social Entrepreneurs Women’s (SEW) Cooperative in NepalSlide10
Sudhamiya
Paswan, 33Livestock for Poverty Alleviation in Terai
Region – NEPAL (22-0531-17)
Received a buffalo
Morning milk sold to dairy, evening milk for family
Curd made from excess milk and sold
Sold manure
With additional income, purchased goat and installed irrigation for her land
Sudhamiya
deposited
part of
her income into the group’s savings for the pass-on fund. When the required amount is saved,
a buffalo
is passed on to another woman
in need
. Recipients are given 36 months to collect
adequate funds
for the pass on.
Sudhamiya
was able to make her pass-on within 10 months of receiving her buffalo.Slide11
Dolores Delgado
Allin Kausay- Good Living: Agroecology and Local Andean Markets (ARPAC) PERU (23-1740-02)
After constructing a shed, Dolores
and her
husband are building an addition with an
improved stove
prepare
and serve guinea
pigs. Dolores says “When your home known for guinea pigs… your neighbors will do the same.”
The community is able to then share in the profits and development.
Most terrain is barren and brown, they have been able to grow vegetables and fodder
Uses organic fertilizer on farm
Received guinea pigs
Money saved because they grow the guinea pigs food
Has received training on animal care Guinea pigs have been a source of nutritionSlide12
Thank you.