FOSTERING Photovoice Project Agenda 1. About CDF Canada and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
FOSTERING Photovoice Project Agenda 1. About CDF Canada and housekeeping (David Dern, CDF Canada) 2. FOSTERING overview (Frewengel Wolde-Michael (Fre), CDF Canada) 3. My experience as a CDF Canada volunteer in Ghana (Nermisa Omerovic, Servus
FOSTERING Districts
Credit Unions (9) Zone Coops (8) Small Holder Farmers FOSTERING Relationship between FOSTERING and farmer co-ops & credit unions ends with the project. Relationship among farmer co-
holder farmers continues even after the project ends.
CHANGE
✓ Promoting gender equality ✓ Increasing the number of women leaders ✓ Improving literacy & numeracy levels ✓ Reducing deforestation & bush burning ✓ Promoting conservation farming
Improved seeds (soya) Row planting, spacing Applying fertilizer (composting) Demonstration plots Reducing deforestation & bush burning Promoting conservation farming
Nutrition and cooking training Post harvest management, aggregation Deworming
crop production
methods and technologies
IMPROVED POST-HARVEST handling and marketing strategies
IMPROVED food preparation and fortification METHODS
LEADERS are women
have taken LOANS for production and small businesses
and men have started NEW BUSINESSES to augment their farm incomes
✓ Government has increased its commitment to food security in every district
Concerns are included in district GOVERNMENT PLANS.
IMPLEMENTED the food security plans
✓ Malnutrition is down: Underweight: from 22% to 14% Stunting: from 32% to 12% Wasting: from 13% to 10%
✓ Up to 98% of households report they are now food secure for up to 12 months of the year (From 70% to 98%)
Strengthening Resilience and Sustainability Closing the Gap on Gender Inequality Promoting Financial Inclusion
"I am helping to pound fufu. Previously I was not doing this activity with my wife."
"The climate has
all the time but we can rely on animals."
"A member of my microfinance group got support from credit union to process soya beans."
“Nobody fears when there is development. There is development going on here. Anybody who is coming, they will not have the fear there is conflict. No, everybody is free to move.” Just under 100 Community Peace Animators received training in household and community conflict management
“We notice a lot of improvement in the health of the children. Before the deworming exercise, the children used to complain about stomach problems, at times you see that some of them are growing late, they don’t look healthy. But now those complaints have reduced drastically and they all look healthy now.” Over 2,600 Children were dewormed in 7 districts
“I can now sit with a group of men and woman and raise my voice and people will abide by it. Now, because I can read and write I don’t have to go to any man to write loan application for me.” 1,850 Women learned to read and write
“GMF taught me many, many, many roles you are supposed to play in the home so that you can live
and clean. GMF empowered me, I came out boldly.” 1,636 Families received Gender Model Family training in 130 communities.
88.5% of households reported shared decision making
“I now have money on my own. When my children’s school call me, I have money. I don’t go to anybody to beg. I can directly send money to my children’s school.”
Women’s annual income has increased 10X
“Some of them {group members} used loan to improve their farming but some change their business totally. There was one woman, I took her picture, she is now brewing pito beer. There is another one too, instead of the farming she is now buying yam to sell.”
8,383 women joined microfinance groups to access credit union services