Tinganga proposal edited[1]

TINGANGA WOMEN EMPOWERMENT ORGANIZATION (TWEO)

P.O BOX 601-00900

KIAMBU COUNTY

PROJECT PROPOSAL

EMPOWERING TINGANGA COMMUNITY GROUPS TO ADDRESS EXTREME POVERTY

SENT TO

BARKA FOUNDATION

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 3 1.0 Situation Analysis: ............................................................................................................................................ 4 1.1 Social Economic Issues ..................................................................................................................................... 4 1.2 Farming activities ............................................................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Employment opportunities ................................................................................................................................ 4 1.4 Other sources of income .................................................................................................................................... 4 1.5 Education standards .......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.6 Learning institutions ......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.7 Water and sanitation.......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.8 Gender Issues.................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.9 Vulnerable children ........................................................................................................................................... 6 2.0 Geographical Coverage ..................................................................................................................................... 6 3.0 Project justification ........................................................................................................................................... 7 4.0 Project Planning ................................................................................................................................................ 7 4.1 Project Goal ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 4.2 How the project was identified .......................................................................................................................... 7 5.0 Description of proposed Intervention ................................................................................................................. 8 5.1 Improving Livestock Productivity ..................................................................................................................... 8 5.2 Assisting vulnerable community members ......................................................................................................... 8 6.0 Project Contribution: ......................................................................................................................................... 8 6.1 Project Impact ................................................................................................................................................... 8 6.2 Outputs level..................................................................................................................................................... 9 6.3 Outcome level ................................................................................................................................................... 9 7.0 Project Sustainability and Community ownership: ............................................................................................. 9 8.0 Project’s environmental Impact: ...................................................................................................................... 10 9.0 Project Risk analysis ....................................................................................................................................... 10 10.0 Project Management, Monitoring, Reporting and Future Prospects ................................................................. 10 10.1 Monitoring and Evaluation: ........................................................................................................................... 11 10.2 Procurement procedures ................................................................................................................................ 11 10.3 Reporting: ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 10.4 Future Prospects ............................................................................................................................................ 11 11.0 Performance Targets ..................................................................................................................................... 12 12.0 Work Plan ..................................................................................................................................................... 13 13.0 Project Budget: Budget breakdown ................................................................................................................ 14 13.1 Human resources........................................................................................................................................... 14 13.2 Material cost ................................................................................................................................................. 14 13.3 Operational Cost ........................................................................................................................................... 14 13.4 Equipments/stationary cost ............................................................................................................................ 14 13.5 Capacity building .......................................................................................................................................... 14 Budget Summary .................................................................................................................................................. 14 Annex 1. Needs and SWOT analysis ..................................................................................................................... 15

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Executive Summary

1. Background information Project Title Empowering Tinganga Community groups to address extreme poverty Project site Tinganga and Kagongo Locations Kiambu County Implementing Institution Tinganga Women Empowerment Organization (TWEO) Implementing Institution’s Contact Name Oliva Muthoni Waguta Implementing Institution's Contact E-mail [email protected] Implementing Institution's Contact phone and Address Tel 0727050768; P.O Box 601 - 00900 Kiambu

Proposed Project Management Committee

Name Position Contact (Tel) 1 Stephen Kinyanjui Chairperson 0733245660 2 Oliva Muthoni Secretary 0727050768 David Ichangai Treasurer 0722867499 3 Lilian Muthoni Group representative 0720327581 4 Sister Charity Church representative 0720407332

Project Duration (Days) 24 months Estimated Starting Date: 15th September 2012 Estimated Ending Date: 14th September 2014

2. Summary of proposed intervention/s:

Intervention 1 Livestock productivity improvement Intervention 2 Support to vulnerable households Intervention 3 Capacity building and community institutional strengthening

3. Beneficiaries Analysis:

4. Summary of costs

Amount requested from BARKA Foundation

Intervention Targeted households/vulnerable Capacity building 1000 hh Gender M – 500; F - 500 Livestock productivity improvement Embryo transplant – 100

Poultry – 100 Forage conservation - 500

Item Description Total (Ksh) Total (US$) Human resources 2,040,000 25,000 Project materials 20,100,000 237,117 Operational 600,000 7,060 Equipments/stationery 200,000 2,352 Capacity building 600,000 7,059 Subtotal 23,540,000 278,588 CBO administration cost 7% 1,647,800 19,501 Grand Total 25,187,800 298,089

Community contribution 500 hay storage houses @ 500,000 100 chicken houses @ 2,000,000 Total community contribution Ksh. 2,500,000 or US$ 29412

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1.0 Situation Analysis:

1.1 Social Economic Issues

The inhabitants of Tinganga and Kogonga Locations are small scale farmers. Agricultural outputs are however greatly limited by small land holdings of 1/8 acre on average. Those whose main source of income is farming live in extreme poverty. Small land holdings in Kiambu district is blamed on land allocation in the follow up to the independence in 1963. The then rich and enlightened acquired huge coffee and tea plantations which left the poor who were the majority with very little to share. Over the years, poverty levels have increased due to land subdivisions. Culturally, sons are supposed to be given a portion of land by their fathers on reaching maturity where they can build their own homes, start families and develop their livelihoods. There are some who have fought their way out of poverty but majority are still trapped.

1.2 Farming activities

Farmers practice mixed farming where crops are grown and livestock reared on the same piece of land. Livestock kept include cattle, chicken and to a small extent pigs. Due to limited land sizes, no family is able to produce enough for home consumption and all depend on other sources of income. Those who keep cattle face the challenge of lack of feeds as the land holdings are too small to produce enough forage. Inadequate foods and poor quality breeding stock has resulted to very low milk production averaging 5 litres per cow. Framers with additional funds such as from well paying jobs can afford livestock to purchase feeds and make decent incomes from livestock farming.

1.3 Employment opportunities Thousands flock the tea and coffee plantations to work as casual labourers. The plantations are their main source of employment. The daily wage is a paltry Ksh.200 (US$2.4) per day. It is an amount that can make only one meal for the family. For the poor families paying for their children school fees and providing other basic necessities is a challenge. Others benefit from other forms of employment such as in the transport sector to the urban centers. Girls are valuable as they readily find employment as domestic servants in the urban centre which permanently deny then an opportunity to live a decent live in future. Only people with good education get decent jobs that sustainably support their families. 1.4 Other sources of income Sources of income include sale of milk, pigs and poultry meat. A few farmers rear chicken and sell the meat to middle men who take to the city of Nairobi. Other sources of income by the women groups involve making bead works and woven baskets which they sell for income (Picture). They also make soap and sell. The women groups have informal micro-finance arrangements where members make contributions to the group which is later shared after accumulation or given to members as loans and paid at an interest.

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1.5 Education standards The Kenyan Government of Kenya is implementing free Universal Primary education for all the children. Education in day secondary schools is also highly subsidized. Good secondary schools in Kenya have boarding facilities. Day schools are always a poor families’ option and majority perform dismally due to limited learning resources and indiscipline. Most school drop outs are from day schools. For Tinganga, students attending nearby day schools often fail to go to school as a result of various family issues, majority related to poverty such as family member falling sick, sick livestock, cows calving, etc. On such days, the children fail to go to school as they have to take their turn and work at the plantation to provide the days food, thus foregoing learning. Transition rate from Primary school to Secondary schools stand at 64.53 (Boys 56.71 Girls 72,12) % for Kiambu County. 29.82 (college)

1.6 Learning institutions The area has a number of learning institutions which include Tinganga primary school, Model primary school, Benson Njau primary school and St. Joseph private primary school. There is one secondary school - Tinganga secondary school. Waruhiu farm is a government agriculture institute that serves for demonstration training in agriculture

1.7 Water and sanitation The main sources of water are shallow wells. Some homes have tanks for rain water harvesting. Every household has a pit latrine. Due to the small land holdings, the distance between the latrines and shallow wells is small and it is feared most wells are contaminated (picture).

1.8 Gender Issues Several homes are women headed resulting from death of husbands, divorced or never married. During the needs analysis exercise, it was suggested the windowed women to raise their hands just to get a feel of how many are windowed. In a group of 15 women, a shocking 7 raised their hands. Members present estimated about 30% of households are windowed. Unlike woman, men who loose their wives remarry within a short time. Girls who are mothers and never got married or are divorced suffer greatly as culture does not allow women to inherit from their parents. Culture allocates custody of the children to the women but not the resources. Such families are highly vulnerable with their children growing up with serious difficulties and often ending up as delinquents. One of the worrying trends in Kiambu County is the status of the young men. The media repeatedly report about excessive fatal drinking habits and Tinganga is one of the affected areas. Several of young men have turned to drinking the illicit brewed alcohol products which in most are cases laced with

dangerous chemicals and are extremely unhygienic. Every year, there are several reported deaths and blindness resulting from the vice. Families headed by such men suffer tremendously with their wives and children paying dearly and ending up in extreme poverty.

In a randomly selected group, 50% of the women were windowed

After taking illicit drinks laced with methanol, these two (left) were lucky to be alive although they lost their sight. The man on the right probably never woke up.

Shallow wells too close to latrines

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1.9 Vulnerable children Tinganga area has several homes where both parents have died. Such children headed households receive support from the neighbors, government or the church. In Tinganga, school fees for such children is paid through the Government devolved fund facility Community Development Fund (CDF) for those willing to continue with secondary schools. These children however receive school fees only but not other basic needs. Consequently, majority drop out of school. Some of the self help groups have purchased cows for such families to assist with milk and income which is highly commendable. 2.0 Geographical Coverage The proposed project will cover the bigger Tinganga Location which was recently divided into two smaller locations namely Tinganga (Population 7285) and Kagongo (population 5785). See map. Tinganga covers 9km2 while Kagongo covers 4.8km2. Population density is 1451 and 1999 persons per km2 respectively, making this among the highest population density in the country.

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3.0 Project justification Small land holdings have resulted to some of the inhabitants being extremely poor despite being hard working. Intensive farming and alternative sources of livelihoods that can be accomplished on small space need to be explored. Women headed households resulting from single motherhood, divorce and death of husbands are vulnerable and majority are poor. As a result, their children grow up poorly, become desperate and often turn to desperate means to earn a living. These women headed households require support to be able to support their families sustainably. Also needing support are households where the young men with families have resulted to excessive illicit alcohol consumption leaving their wives as the sole bread weaners and their children vulnerable. While the government is expected to take stern action against individuals who forfeit their parental duties, support through counseling and capacity building can have positive social and economic benefits for such families. Women groups exist and it was reported during the needs analysis that they sometimes come to the aid of such vulnerable orphaned children. Their capacity is however curtailed by their limited resources. The group activities need to be enhanced especially those that improve their levels of income including the already ongoing activities in livestock, micro-finance, beads and basket weaving and soap making. Dairy farming which support several homes need to be intensified through capacity building and investment. Increasing milk output from the dairy cows will have great impacts on reducing poverty in the area. In addition, farming activities that require little space such as poultry keeping need to be enhanced. Poverty in the area can also be blamed on lack of capacity to manage the few resources properly. Thus this project will have the component of capacity building so as to improve livelihoods as well as for project sustainability.

4.0 Project Planning

4.1 Project Goal To improve livelihoods and eradicate extreme poverty Project objectives

1. To improve livestock productivity 2. To assist vulnerable community members 3. To build capacity and strengthen community institutions

4.2 How the project was identified Development of this proposal is a follow up to a visit by a member of The Barka Foundation. During the meeting, it was agreed the existing social groups make an umbrella community based organization and make a proposal with interventions that can improve the well being of the local people. The area sub-chief identified women groups who formed an umbrella community based organization (CBO) The Tinganga Women Empowerment Organization. This was followed by a participatory needs analysis that was conducted assisted by an independent person at Tinganga Catholic church hall (picture). The results of this exercise are in annex 1 of this proposal. After the needs analysis, proposed interventions were deliberated on by those present.

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5.0 Description of proposed Intervention 5.1 Improving Livestock Productivity

i. Embryo transfer for 100 cows benefiting 100 vulnerable households. Cows are inseminated with artificial insemination using locally acquired semen. More wealthy farmers acquire semen from exotic more superior pedigree bulls and more recently, embryo transfer. Embryo transfer cost about Ksh. 20,000 which is beyond reach of the common farmer. With this technology, the project will introduce a superior breeding stock which will give more milk thus increasing income.

ii. Forage conservation. Tinganga region cannot meet forage requirements for their livestock owing to the small land holdings. Other parts of the country which are sparsely populated produce and sell hay. The hay cost less during rainy seasons and increases in cost as the drought period advances. With hey storage facilities, farmers can purchase and store enough hay to last during the drought period when they suffer most due to the high cost of livestock feeds. This will be a self sustaining activity as the hay will be for milk producing cows that make an income everyday that can be used to purchase more hay.

iii. Chicken rearing. Tinganga is within easy reach of the city of Nairobi. Farmers who are able to supply chicken meat to the urban high population can make a decent earning. The reason given at the needs analysis workshop why the Tinganga farmers do not exploit this option is because it requires high capital investment. The project will put a micro-credit finance that will benefit those who will be able to exploit this opportunity. Vulnerable households will be assisted with the initial capital investment to acquire 500 broiler chicks. They will be given credit in kind for the feeds which they can start repayment after the first crop is sold. This fund will be repaid and move on to benefit more people under the CBO management and the church.

iv. Livestock Health services. The Ministry of livestock will be fully involved and will assist the farmers with veterinary services. The government does not give the services free of charge and a budget will be put aside for the purpose. In addition, a livestock officer will be hired by this project and will act as the link between the government and the community, offering trainings and monitoring the progress.

v. Capacity building. The Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Livestock, Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Public Health will be the line ministries which will be incorporated and requested to assist with capacity building. Involving the government agencies is also important for sustainability. Government officers take precautions and ensure success of projects that have been entrusted to them and being an office, outgoing officers hand over to the incoming thus providing continuity. The capacity building will be in livestock production focusing on dairy production, poultry, pigs production, livestock feeding, nutrition and forage conservation. In addition there will be environmental sanitation, hygiene, family well being, drugs and substance abuse.

5.2 Assisting vulnerable community members Each group operating under the umbrella CBO - Tinganga Women Empowerment Organization (TWEO) will identify the most vulnerable among them. A selection criteria will be developed in a participatory way where members will be given an opportunity to contribute on who should be considered vulnerable. Those identified will benefit from the livestock improvement activities. These will include households where one or both parents have died, extremely poor, with chronically ill family members including HIV/AIDs, diabetes and Cancer patients. The individual self help groups will receive credit on behalf of the beneficiaries and support the vulnerable to succeed. 6.0 Project Contribution: 6.1 Project Impact

The proposed interventions are expected to have the following impacts; Improved livelihoods; Vulnerable households who will become beneficiaries will improve their income levels.

These will result from sale of broiler chicken, increased levels of milk production and sale of high value cattle breeds after the calves are born. As a result they will have more to spend on better diet, housing and education

Replacement of the breeding stock; the improved quality of cattle will lead to increased livestock productivity namely milk and calves which will replace the breeding stock. It is hoped the improved livestock will find ready market within the area to further improve productivity by indirect project beneficiaries. In the long term, the breeding stock will be replaced by high value animals.

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Improved capacity to take care of the livestock. These will result from the capacity building that will be conducted.

Sustained productivity during drought periods . Forage conservation and storage for dry seasons will enhance productivity during drought periods when milk prices are at their highest. This way the income will be available throughout the year.

6.2 Outputs level The following are the outputs that will contribute to the impacts and outcomes outlined

100 embryo transfers 10,000 bales of hay as initial load 500 hey storage houses built (Community contribution) 1,000 farmers trained in livestock improvement, forage conservation and livestock nutrition 50,000 chicks procured 100 poultry houses built (community contribution) 200,000 kg of broiler feeds procured Line ministries support to farmers (County administration contribution)

6.3 Outcome level

(a) Employment; the proposed activities will serve as a source of self employment. These will engage the

beneficiaries in fruitful activities which will deter them from engaging in dangerous activities. (b) Income Generation; The activities will result to more income in the long run (c) Local Community empowerment; The support the project will give to direct and indirect beneficiaries in

form of kind support and capacity building will result to community empowerment (d) Human resources development; Vocational as well as capacity building will build a human resource with a

wealth of knowledge which they can utilize there after the project life. (e) Institutional Building; The project will be implemented under a CBO which is an umbrella organization for

several community self-help group. In addition, government departments and other institutions with complimentary activities will be involved. These will strengthen the institutions with the ultimate beneficiary being the community.

(f) More social stability; Families with resources act responsibly and live decent lives. This will increase their confidence and social stability.

(g) Less drunkenness; through counseling and assisting the youth, less men will engage in destructive activities such as drunkenness.

(h) Better diets for the families; Poor households feed on poor diets that lack proper nutrition and are often unhygienic. This project will provide better diet through more income and capacity building on water and sanitation.

7.0 Project Sustainability and Community ownership: Community participation; during preparation for this proposal, the community came together and carried out

a SWOT analysis that gave rise to the proposed interventions. The proposed interventions were done in a participatory way with the members present deliberating on the issues and arriving at possible interventions. In addition, Government administration was adequately involved through the presence of the area sub-chief who is also a resident in the area. The Tinganga Catholic church which is a highly respected institution is one of stakeholders and contributors to the project. The beneficiaries will continue to be involved in all other project activities through planning, implementation and monitoring.

Capacity building; One of the proposed interventions is capacity building in the different fields. These include

livestock husbandry, entrepreneurship, forage preservation, ration making, water and sanitation. The improved capacity will be important as a sustainability measure.

Government Involvement; The participation of the government departments in the line ministries will be a

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stabilizing factor in the project. This is because it will be part of the Location achievements and since government officials are regularly evaluated, they will be motivated to keep tabs at the success of the overall project.

Community contribution; The beneficiaries have agreed to work hard and make a contribution of up to 10% in

cash and kind. Community contribution will increase project ownership by the beneficiaries. For example, the community will be expected to build livestock houses and purchase half the amount of chicken feed required for this project.

8.0 Project’s environmental Impact: The capacity building on water and sanitation will positively contribute to the environment. A sample of the shallow wells water will be tested for E.coli presence and necessary measures discussed and adopted. Beneficiaries will also be encouraged to plant trees where possible.

Capacity building on livestock management will also include biogas generation as an alternative to using firewood or charcoal. Use of livestock waste for improve soil fertility is well established and more capacity building on this will be done. This will help improve sanitation and reduce energy povert. This project is not foreseen to have any negative environmental impact and those identified such as sanitation will be properly mitigated. 9.0 Project Risk analysis Dimension Risk/ Conflict Mitigation measure Responsible Remarks Security Ordinary

criminals may pose a security challenge

Involving the communities and working with the local administration who are charged with the responsibility of ensuring security for all

Community groups Local administration

Operational and financial management

TWEO that will be charged with project management is relatively new

The Tinganga Catholic Church will form part of the project management. Church to have a monitoring and mentoring role

Sister Charity will be in the project management

The local church is well established and respected.

Environmental

Large presence of livestock within a small space could pose sanitary complications

The capacity building and involvement of the ministry of Public health will assist deal with any sanitation issues that may arise.

TWEO, Ministry of public health, Tinganga Catholic church

Farmers utilize the dung from livestock to make organic manure

10.0 Project Management, Monitoring, Reporting and Future Prospects The umbrella CBO will be overall in charge of the project management. The four managers are as listed.

1. Stephen Kinyanjui (Chairperson) 2. Oliva Muthoni (Secretary) 3. David Ichangai (Treasurer) 4. Sister Charity (Tinganga Catholic Church representative) 5. Lilian Muthoni Nganga (Groups representative)

The CBO will hire a secretariat that will consist of the livestock field officer and an accountant. Stakeholders will be incorporated in the project management. For example, the Government of Kenya supports such institutions through working with the departments dealing with the subject at hard. In this regard, capacity building and most of the other

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proposed activities will be conducted in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Livestock, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Cooperatives and the provincial administration. Veterinary services will also be assisted by the Ministry of livestock Project’s implementation Framework

10.1 Monitoring and Evaluation: The TWEO Board who will consist of the chairperson, secretary, the treasure, self help group representative and the church representative will meet once a week to review the implementation progress and recommend any adjustments that may be necessary. The project manager will make weekly monitoring reports and submit to the board. The board will make monthly field visits to the beneficiaries to verify the manager’s report and make monthly monitoring reports. It is also expected the donor will make periodic monitoring visits, organize for a mid-term review and end of project evaluation. The monitoring reports will be shared with the donor on monthly basis or as may be agreed between the CBO and the donor. 10.2 Procurement procedures Materials proposed will be procured following the Government of Kenya procurement rules and procedures. The same will be applied for the other services proposed to be implemented in this project. 10.3 Reporting:

The CBO will provide BARKA foundation with the following reports

Monthly progress narrative reports with financial status: Ad-hoc reports: Upon the request by the BARKA Project Management Final financial report, Final narrative report (reflecting achievements, impacts and outcomes, challenges, issues, risks, impact, roles of

various stakeholders, pictures, and community handover letter. Success stories and case studies

10.4 Future Prospects

The community ultimate goal is are strong institutions that will get to the level of marketing own produce and value addition for the livestock products. These include milk processing plant, slaughter house and packaging for poultry products. Other communities have done it in Kenya and the benefits are public - The Tinganga community foresee a future of self sufficiency through determination.

Tinganga Women Empowerment Organisation

(TWEO)

Self Help Groups (Beneficiaries)

Self Help Groups (Beneficiaries)

Self Help Groups (Beneficiaries)

Tinganga Catholic Church Government Departments

11.0 Performance Targets

Expected Outputs/results

Activities Indicators (SMART Source(s) of verification

Assumptions Responsible party

Improved Livestock Productivity

Identification of vulnerable households

200 vulnerable households identified by end of 1st quarter

Outline of selection criteria that is objective

Selection criteria will be fair and acceptable to all

CBO, Church

Embryo transfer

100 embryo transfers within 2 years

Ministry of Agriculture reports Project reports Church reports

Success rate will be high CBO MOA, MOLD

Forage conservation and storage

500 hey storage houses build within 2 years

Ministry of Agriculture reports Project reports Church reports

Sources of hay will be identified from outside Kiambu county

CBO MOA, MOLD

Training on livestock management

1000 farmers trained in forage conservation and livestock nutrition

Project reports, MOA reports, MOLD reports, field survey

Beneficiaries will identify and contribute locally building materials

CBO, MOEnv

Acquisition of broilers chicks

50,000 chicks procured within 12 months

Project reports, MOA reports, MOLD reports, field verification

Beneficiaries will maintain standards as expected by the livestock production officer

CBO, MOLD

Building Poultry houses

100 poultry houses built Project reports, MOA reports, MOLD reports, field verification

Community will orporate as this will be community contribution.

CBO, MOLD MOEn

Chicken feeds acquisition

200,000 kg of broiler feeds acquired within 18 months of project initiation

Project reports, MOA reports, MOLD reports, field verification

Towards the end of the project, the CBO will maintain a micro-finance on a sustainable basis that will continue to assist more members after the project life

CBO, Ministry of cooperative development

Health services for the farmers

Signed contract between CBO and Ministry of Livestock development. Livestock production officer hired within one month of project onset

Signed contracts, Project report, healthy livestock

Current government policies on livestock management will prevail

CBO, MOLD

Capacity building

1000 farmers trained on livestock improvement, environmental sanitation

Training manuals, attendance list, project reports, MOA, MOLD reports

Farmers will co-orporate CBO, Tinganga Catholic church, MOA, MOLD, MOCD,

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12.0 Work Plan

Improved Livestock Productivity Year 1 Year 2 Qrt 1 Qrt 2 Qrt 3 Qrt 4 Qrt 1 Qrt 2 Qrt 3 Qrt 4 Activities Indicators (SMART Embryo transfer 100 embryo transfers by end of 2nd qtr yr 2 Forage conservation and storage

1000 hey storage houses build within 2 years (Community contribution)

Training on livestock management

1000 farmers trained in forage conservation and livestock nutrition by the end of the 2nd quarter of project year 2

Acquisition of broilers chicks

50,000 chicks procured within 15 months of project onset

Building Poultry houses At least 100 poultry houses built (community contribution) within15 months of project onset.

Chicken feeds acquisition

200,000 kg of broiler feeds acquired within 15 months of project initiation

Health services for the farmers

Signed contract between CBO and the Ministry of Livestock development to offer health services to the project within the first qtr of project onset.

Livestock production officer hired within one month from the project onset

Capacity building 1000 farmers trained on livestock improvement, environmental sanitation within the first year of project life

Vulnerable households assisted Qrt 1 Qrt 2 Qrt 3 Qrt 4 Qrt 1 Qrt 2 Qrt 3 Qrt 4 Identification of vulnerable households and orphans

200 vulnerable households identified for livestock improvement activities within the first qtr of project onset

13.0 Project Budget: Budget breakdown 13.1 Human resources

Position Duration Monthly salary Monthly salary (US$) Cost (Ks) Cost (US$) Livestock production officer 24 45,000 529 1,080,000 12,706 Accountant 24 40,000 471 960,000 12,294

Total cost; human resources 2,040,000 25,000 13.2 Material cost

Item Unit Quantity Price/Unit (Ksh) Price/unit (US$) Cost (Ksh) Cost (US$) Embryos pc 100 20,000 235 2,000,000 23,529 Hay (Initial load) pc 10000 260 3 2,600,000 30,000 Broiler chicks pc 50,000 70 0.8 3,500,000 42,176 Chicken feeds kg 200,000 55 0.6 11,000,000 129,412 Group activities SHG 10 100,000 1200 1,000,000 12000

Total 20,100,000 237,117 13.3 Operational Cost

Item Unit Quantity Price/Unit (Ksh) Price/Unit (US$) Cost (Ksh) Cost (US$) Transport Months 24 10,000 118 240,000 2,824 Communication Months 24 5,000 59 120,000 1,412 Office rent Months 24 10,000 118 240,000 2,824

Total 600,000 7,060 13.4 Equipments/stationary cost

Item Unit Quantity Price/Unit (Ksh) Cost (Ksh) Cost (US$) ICT equipment Lump sum Lump sum 100,000 1,176 Stationary Lump sum Lump sum 100,000 1,176

Total 200,000 2,352

13.5 Capacity building Item Quantity Monthly Rate(Ksh) Rate (US$) Cost(ksh) Cost (US$)

Training facilitation 6 months 100,000 600,000 7059 Total 600,000 7059

Budget Summary

Community contribution 500 hay storage houses @ 500,000 100 chicken houses @ 2,000,000 Total estimated cost Ksh. 2,500,000 or US$ 29412

Item Description Total (Ksh) Total (US$) Human resources 2,040,000 25,000 Project materials 20,100,000 237,117 Operational 600,000 7,060 Equipments/stationery 200,000 2,352 Capacity building 600,000 7,059 Subtotal 23,540,000 278,588 CBO administration cost 7% 1,647,800 19,501 Grand Total 25,187,800 298,089

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Annex 1. Needs and SWOT analysis Background information Family size av. 6 Farm land size 1/8 acre per family Income sources; Milk for about 60% of farmers (av. 5 litres per cow); Broiler chicken by about 10% of farmers with an average of 200 birds. 200 birds are not sustainable. Need at least 500 to be sustainable. Way forward There are several social function that require tents. Clients demand modern tents especially for weddings Poultry keeping require small space Dairy cows have low productivity 5 litres / herd

SWOT Analysis Strengths Strong will power to improve living standards demonstrated by already existing self help groups and their activities such as beads making, soap making, making of woven baskets Generate income that goes to microfinance Have contributed cows to the most vulnerable children headed households The small land holdings have high productivity High rainfall amounts Good roads infrastructure Have shallow wells as water sources Weaknesses Little income – high production cost coupled with low price of produce due to middle man exploitation Lack of motivation by group members which minimize synergies Low education standards – majority are primary school drop outs. Too small land holdings Limited job opportunities Inaccessibility of market by individual producers which give opportunity to middle men Threats High orphans burdens High burden for women – some husbands and sons have turned to excessive alcohol consumption Drugs and alcohol HIV/AIDS – some lose hope and intentionally spread the disease Failure of children to advance to self sufficiency 30% of households are headed by windows (widowers remarry) and another 20% are divorced or never married Opportunities High micro finance opportunity with poultry, dairy farming and pigs Readily available markets Good roads network Electricity is available Community open to skills development including entrepreneurship Poultry meat demand is high Plantations offer employment for those who are desperate Cooperatives for marketing produce to kick out middle men can result to huge benefits Community willing to contribute locally available materials, unskilled labour, water, fuel etc

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Learning institutions in the area 1. Tinganga Primary school 2. Model Primary school 3. Benson Njau primary school 4. St. Joseph Private primary school 5. Tinganga Secondary school Project sustainability Training on poultry rearing, entrepreneurship, ration mixing, water management, water quality Stakeholders CBO, self help groups, relevant Government departments, Waruhiu farm (government agriculture institute), KARI, Tinganga Catholic church Institutional set up Tinganga Women Empowerment Organisation – Community Based Organisation and several Self Help Groups with support from Tinganga Catholic Church.