Self Help Africa (SHA) is an international NGO dedicated to the vision of an economically thriving and resilient rural Africa. It has more than 50 years’ experience working to support sustainable rural development, including identifying, refining, and reinforcing various value chains. We work with farmers, farmer associations, cooperatives, agribusinesses, and whole communities to help farmers grow and sell more food, improve diets, diversify incomes, and make their livelihoods more sustainable and resilient to external shocks. To build resilience to climate change, we embed natural resource management within communities and promote adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture techniques.
Project Background
Self Help Africa in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and with funding support from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Uganda has been implementing a project in Kiryandongo refugee hosting districts. The project is being implemented in 6 clusters (G, C, D, I, J, P) in Kiryandongo refugee settlement for the refugee households and 3 sub-counties of Mutunda, Nyamahasa, and Kigumba respectively for the host communities. The project intends to strengthen the capacity of 433 refugee and 367 host community households to engage in market-oriented production of passion fruits and food crops to improve food and nutrition security, income, and livelihood.
Using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, the target households were trained on good agricultural practices in the selected value chains to boost their productivity and quality of produce. The training was complemented with the provision of agricultural inputs such as quality staple crops and vegetable seeds, grafted passion fruit seedlings, and basic farm tools using an electronic voucher scheme to enhance production. Furthermore, selected farmer groups were supported to access water for production infrastructures and trained on the use and management of these systems through the establishment of water user committees to promote climate-sensitive agricultural production
Consultancy Overview
The main objective of the documentary is to enable the project capture the best practices, case studies and human impact stories about the project that can be used for sharing with different stakeholders and the organization website to show case the achievements as part of the integrated FAO Project delivery. The final product will then be uploaded on SHA social media platforms, shared with the project donor as well as other audiences as best fit.
Specific objectives
- To document 2 case studies and best practices about the project
- To document 5 impact stories related to the project
- To provide clear short talking videos about the project
- To capture good action-oriented photos showing the different components of the project
Qualified candidates should submit technical and financial proposals to the following email: [email protected]
Please type “Consultant / Conducting a documentary for improving nutrition income and livelihoods UGK6 – [your consultant(s)/Consultancy firm name]” in the subject line of the e-mail.
