The overall objective of this project is to create resilient, self-sustaining farming communities where poverty and hunger are reduced. This is being achieved through strengthening the livelihoods, nutrition and climate resilience of smallholder farmers in four districts of Teso, North Eastern Uganda. Strengthening Livelihood

This project is being implemented through two communitybased organisations and three local NGOs, in order to increase engagement and ownership of the project, as well as building capacity at the local level.

• 11,554 beneficiaries
• 9,324 indirect beneficiaries
• 61% female beneficiaries

From 2003-2008 Lord’s Resistance Army insurgencies and armed cattle rustling in Teso, Northern Uganda, resulted in a breakdown of infrastructure, loss of services, livelihoods and skills, with 80,000 people moving to Internally Displaced Persons camps, and many remaining there for over a decade. The communities in this area remain very poor and vulnerable to shocks, so this project aims to provide training in relevant agricultural practices to enable these communities to increase their production, diversify their diets, and raise their income levels.

Self Help Africa will deliver training to farmers organised into 19 youth groups, 19 women’s groups and 2 groups of people living with disabilities. Secondary beneficiaries will be a further 5,000 people of all ages in targeted households. By the end of the two year project it is expected that annual disposable household income for these households will increase from the current deficit of UGX -40,000 to UGX 101,000 shillings; 850 households to have increased production of crops and livestock; improved dietary diversity among 750 households; and increased decision-making power of women and young people.

• 1,000 households

In Uganda, approximately 1.5 million households derive income from beekeeping, harvesting various products including honey, propolis and beeswax. This project aims to transform the lives and increase incomes for 2,000 smallholder farmers who will benefit from improved skills and access to reliable markets offering competitive prices for their produce.

The project will support GBL and Swienty Commodities’ commercial objectives of increasing the quantity, quality and traceability of honey and wax sourced from Uganda.

• 2,000 households

This Pilot Project will study what drives adoption of agricultural technologies and how agricultural information and communication technologies and services are used by female and male smallholder farmers and small-agricultural enterprises in the Ugandan Teso region.

The overarching objective is to identify user preferences and knowledge gaps and to detect barriers and untapped opportunities for effective and inclusive adoption and use of information and communication technology and how these could impact on livelihoods, food consumption, and resilience to market, health and climatic shocks.

As part of the wider programme across two countries, SHA will be working with potato farmers in SouthWest Uganda to accelerate the large-scale access to and adoption of climate-smart and market-demanded novel varieties of potato.

Identifying varieties suitable for African conditions has been supported by the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) and USAID, with an explicit focus on climate resilience and disease resistance.

These varieties carry more robust, market-demanded traits than those currently grown, striking a balance in addressing farmers’ limited ability to purchase inputs and meeting diverse market demands. Overall, this innovation will accelerate the delivery of newer potato genetics to farmers, and therefore would increase the actual adoption of novel varieties among smallholders producing potatoes for income generation and food security.

• 50,000 potato farmers (50% women)
• 30 private seed businesses