An Introduction to Ustadi

“Empower – Connect – Prosper”

An Introduction to USTADI

17th September, 2014

George MazuriChief Executive Officer

Presentation Outline

USTADI – Who are We?

• The Kenya Local Capacity Development Facility- Now Known Locally (branded) as USTADI - www.ustadi.org . USTADI is a Kiswahili word for being ‘Skilful’,

• Part of a Global Network of initiatives initially started by SNV – the LCDFs

• A response to systemic bottlenecks in the CDS environment in Kenya. (access, quality; standards) of CDS

FOCUS: Mainly sub-national/Rural level.

Some CD Bottlenecks in Kenya Most funds for CD spent at

national level

Most services designed between funder and service provider

Providers are concentrated in 1-2 major towns .

Overall conclusion:

For local actors, the CD ‘market’ is erratic, difficult to access, not transparent and quality of services unpredictable and too costly.

Overall conclusion:

For local actors, the CD ‘market’ is erratic, difficult to access, not transparent and quality of services unpredictable and too costly.

Aga Khan Foundation

WATER SERVICES TRUST FUND (WSTF)

ICEBERG Consultants

COBTRAD

Enterprise Fund

Consortium Members

Why USTADI? - Strategic Drivers/Considerations1. Inadequate Demand in the market for CDS

o Information on opportunities, actors and intelligence

o Market barriers such as: not affordable, inappropriate,

unavailable or out of reach.

2. Inadequate Supply of quality CDS in the market

o Information, Availability, Pricing, Attitude, Quacks vs Standards

3.Distorted CD marketo due to development partners / funders demanding capacity

development

What do we do?

• Promotes CD as the “CORE” and not as an “ADD-ON”

• Empower Rural entrepreneurs to use professional CDS to support their enterprises for increased incomes & profits.

Products and ServicesMarket Facilitation

Services Enhancing the local service environment to create better linkages between supply and demand of services

Capacity Development

Markets

Online tender portal and expert

directory (PREXKenya.com)

Online tender portal and expert

directory (PREXKenya.com)

TA Support & Investment Management Services

Facilitating Capacity Development: Cost sharing matching fund for

smallholdersRural Organizations acquiring

Business & Professional Services

National LCDF Mechanism

Best practice, Evidence, Advocacy, Learning standards, Agenda setting for CD

National LCDF Mechanism

Best practice, Evidence, Advocacy, Learning standards, Agenda setting for CD

CDS Market place one

stop shop for Water and Agriculture

DEMANDFarmers’

Associations water users

DEMANDFarmers’

Associations water users

SUPPLYSupport

organizations Agribusiness

Service providers

SUPPLYSupport

organizations Agribusiness

Service providers

Finance Mechanism

Drivers of CDS national level Actors in CDS Forums

Information from communities about CDS demandSuppliers seeking to reach communities

Financiers seeking to invest in Local Development

interact through the Market Place

IMPLEMENTATION IS THROUGH THREE KEY PILLARS

IMPLEMENTATION IS THROUGH THREE KEY PILLARS

How we do it…

Slogan: Empower – Connect - Prosper

Demand Side(Users of Services)

Demand Side(Users of Services)

Supply Side(Providers of

Services)

Supply Side(Providers of

Services)

Key Questions

What CDS gaps?Is it info?

Availability?Affordability?

Standards? Etc.

Key Questions

What CDS gaps?Is it info?

Availability?Affordability?

Standards? Etc.

Key QuestionsIs the supply

available?Is the supply aware?

Can it match the gaps?

Quality?What are supply

gaps? etc

Key QuestionsIs the supply

available?Is the supply aware?

Can it match the gaps?

Quality?What are supply

gaps? etc

ConnectConnect

prosper

prosper

prosperprosper

Markets = Businesses = Employment

Climate change

What is Climate Change?

What are the effects of Climate

Change?

Tackling Climate Change. o Climate change mitigation

o Climate change adaptation

•USTADI and climate change

Definition

•United Nations Forum Convention on Climate Change

(UNFCCC) defines Climate Change as ‘a change of climate which

is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the

composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to

natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods.

Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or

external forcings, or due to persistent anthropogenic

changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land

use

Severe droughtsand heat waves

Heavy rains

Stronger storms

Effects of Climate Change

Extreme Weather Events

Decreasing snow cover

http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=1361

Kilimanjaro 1993

Kilimanjaro 2000

Decreasing snow cover and melting glaciers

http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/trends-in-sea-level-1870-2006

• Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion and melting glaciers and ice caps

• Average global sea levels have risen 17 cm during 20th century and may rise 28-58 cm by 2100

Global mean sea level rise from 1870 - 2006

+ 3.1 mm per year

Rising sea levels

Collapse of Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/WilkinsIceSheet/

Warming of poles and loss of sea ice

Tackling Climate change

Climate Change Mitigation: actions taken to permanently eliminate or reduce the long-term risk and hazards of climate change to human life, property.

Climate Change adaptation:refers to the ability of a system to adjust to climate change (including climate variability and extremes) to moderate potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences.

Kenya is highly vulnerable to CC

impacts

VulnerabilityVulnerability is the degree to which a system is susceptible to, and

unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including

climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the

character, magnitude, and rate of climate change and variation to

which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity

ResilienceThe ability of a social or ecological system to absorb disturbances while retaining the same basic structure and ways of functioning, the capacity for self organization, and the capacity to adapt to stress and change.

Project:

Kilifi Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Project (ACT-DFID)

Mainly Adaptation:

Aim: Increasing Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability

Location:

4 Sub counties in Kilifi County (ASAL Areas)

Goal:

Improved livelihoods through climate smart agriculture (CSA) agriculture and marketing in Kilifi County

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USTADI and Climate Change

Objectives:

1. To strengthen the capacity of NSAs to advocate for Climate Change policies in Kilifi County  

•Formation of the NSAs Network in Kilifi County•Sensitization sessions with the NSAs role in advocacy for climate change policies in Kilifi county•Identification of capacity gaps related climate change advocacy2. To increase Climate Change Resilience by 26,000 farmers in the Four Sub Counties of Kilifi County.

•Training of TOTs/Private Service Providers on Climate Smart Agriculture

•Dissemination of Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies

3. Improved marketing accessibility of farm produce by smallholder farmers.

•Linkage to markets (skills / commodity)

•Subscription of farmers with ICT systems for information access

•Processing and Value addition for market penetration

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USTADI and Climate Change

Zai pits farming technology

Farmers of Marafa – Magarini Sub County – Kilifi County constructing zai pits in rotation

Maize plants planted in zai pits. The crops are very green and healthy. The yield per zai pit is 3 kgs of maize. An acre has 1,770 zai pits.

Growing of drought tolerant crops:Green grams – pojo crops. This is one of the drought tolerant crop grown in Marafa- Magarini Sub County

A farmer seen harvesting peagon peas- Mkunde- one of the drought tolerant crop that does well with little rains in Kilifi County.

Small scale drip irrigation for Abechilli crop:

Current Programs & Areas of Operation N

oProgram Area Supported by

1 Facilitating Capacity Development Services (CDS) at the local level (TA and CDS Grants for Rural Enterprises in WASH)(Cashew, Local poultry, Dairy, Renewable Energy, horticulture)

Western Kenya, Eastern and Coast (Kilifi county only)

Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)

2 Improving Performance of Agro-enterprises through Professional Capacity Development Services and Market Facilitation (African Birds Eye Chilie – ABEC - Kilifi; Pineapples –Homabay/Migori; Seaweed – Kwale)

Kilifi, Kwale, Migori, and Homabay Counties

HIVOS International

3 Youth Entrepreneurship Facility (grants to support youth enterprises. USTADI is the implementing partner in Kenya (Open ended)

25 projects Country wide ILO Youth –to- Youth Fund (YEF-ILO)

4 Kilifi Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Project (KICCAP)

(Cashew, Maize, Sorghum, legumes etc)

Kilifi County (Kaloleni, Ganze, and Malindi, Marafa Sub counties)

ACT! (Act-Change Transform)

5 Up-scaling Seaweed Farming and Fresh Marine Fish Marketing

(Seaweed and Fresh Marine Fish)- CANCO

Kilifi and Kwale ACT! (Act-Change Transform)

Contact Information

USTADI Foundation

3rd Ngong Avenue,

Upperhill Gardens Apt-E-01

P.O Box 38344-00100, Nairobi – KenyaCell +254

712177942/707387313/704404571/710180452

Email: [email protected]/[email protected]

Thank You