- TypeTraining or Development Class
- Location Nairobi, Nairobi County,Nairobi,Kenya
- Date 24-10-2022 - 28-10-2022
Education/Teaching/Training/Development
Agriculture/Agribusiness
Establishing and Strengthening Farmer Organizations Course on 24th to 28th October 2022
Introduction
Farmers’ organizations (FO) are effective channels of communication between the member-farmers. Without them, a situation of isolated voices would arise, that lack coordination and general power to affect the behavior of agricultural service providers. Formation of groups and farmer organizations is at times done without training them properly in theory and practice on the basic principles of community organizations. Majority of the farmers do not have many skills and experience in the process of establishing these organizations. However, many government agencies have developed national policies for rural development and designed policy framework to help rural people become organized so that delivery of services could be channeled through the various types of farmer organizations or groups. This course will help participant to establish issues surround the establishment and functioning of farmer organizations and the most effective way of solving them
Course Objective:
· Farmer organizations
· Establishing farmer organizations
· Establish the roles of extension services in farmer organizations
· Understanding the key issues influencing participation in farmer organizations
· Understanding the various strategies/empowerment methods that can be applied to farmer organizations
· Policy issues influencing establishment and strengthening of farmer organizations
Duration
5 days
Who should attend?
Agriculture Extension, working with communities, in governments, funding agencies, Research organizations and non-government organizations among others for Agriculture support activities and other Development programmers.
Course content
· Introduction
· agricultural development
· Farmer segmentation
· Empowerment
· Community-Organizing
· Human Resource Development
· Understanding the Village Community
· Leadership in the Community
· Cooperation from Other Agencies
· Community Meetings
· Developing an Organizational Structure
· Management through Education
· Selected Projects
· Community Gains
· Strengthening and Revitalizing Community
· Developing proposal