Innovation Plan Upper Tana natural rfesources Management Project (UTaNRMP), Kenya Learning Route, Women empowerment, new businesses and sustainable natural resources management in Nepal. 13 - 21 September 2013

1. LEARNING ROUTES PROGRAM NEPAL SEP 2013
UTaNRMP INNOVATION PLAN
REPUBLIC
OF
KENYA
UPPER TANA
NATURAL
RESOURCES
MANAGEMENT
PROJECT (UTaNRMP)
IFAD
INTERNATIONAL
FUND FOR
AGRICULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT
IMPROVED RURAL LIVELIHOODS AND POVERTY REDUCTION
THROUGH POULTRY FARMING
BY
F.M. LIVINGSTONE
P. M. NJUGUNA
LUMBINI, NEPAL SEP 2013

2. Project area in Kenya

3. Vision
To be the best sustainable
livelihood improvement and
poverty reduction women group
through NRM in Embu County
by year 2015

4. General Objective
 Improve Rural Livelihood and
Reduce Poverty through
Poultry Farming for Wamiti
Women Group in Embu
County, Kenya

5. Specific Objectives
i. Improve rural livelihoods and
reduce poverty for rural
women
ii. Improve household nutrition
iii. Improve soil fertility using the
chicken manure

6. Beneficiaries/Target group
i. 25 Wamiti Women Group
members of Embu County
ii. They are rural women located
30KM from Embu Town

7. Background/justification
i. Rural women have limited
income generating economic
activities due to the patriarchal
system
ii. Chicken rearing is an accepted
women activity in the
geographical area and they have
control of incomes and benefits
from the same

8. Background/justification Cont.
iii Women are currently practising
subsistence farming from an irrigation
scheme built under MKEPP support
Iv The proposed project will assist the
household in terms of income from egg
sales, improve household nutrition by
eating some eggs while the waste
(manure) improves soil fertility for better
crop productivity.

9. Key Lessons Learnt from LR-
Nepal
i. IGA’s may be done individually, cooperative
or a combination of both, Marketing is done
individually or collective marketing through
cooperatives-Marketing Collectively
brings more returns
ii. Support to livelihood IGA’s enhances
sustainable NRM
iii. Gender mainstreaming (Active
participation of men, women and youth)
is prerequisite to sustainable poverty
reduction and NRM

10. Opportunities
i. Women groups already mobilized in the
area
ii. Infrastructure in place- Motorable roads,
mobile phones, electricity, water, Access to
markets- Hotels, Universities, Schools
iii. High literacy levels (Approx 80% with
Secondary School education)
iv. Banking Institutions
v. On-going livelihood improvement IGA
activities through Upper Tana NRM project

11. Opportunities cont.
Vi Agricultural Market Information- Daily
through Mobile Phones, Newspapers and
Radio
Vii Source of Inputs- Chicks from
Hatcheries,Poultry feed and vaccines from
local Agro-Vet shops

12. Partners
i. Ministries of Agriculture,
Livestock, Veterinary, Social
Development Services
ii. County Government of Embu
iii. Upper Tana NRM project
iv. Beneficiaries

13. Resources
i. Technical Advice- from relevant Govt
Ministries
ii. Unskilled labour- from the beneficiaries
iii. Finances-
 UTaNRMP –pay for mobilization, capacity
building, supervision costs
 PROCASUR- procurement of chicks and
starter feeds,vaccines
 Beneficiaries- Construct chicken houses,
feed the chicken

14. Main activities
i. Community sensitization- 2 weeks
ii. Market Analysis and business planning-
1week
iii. Capacity building (poultry rearing, records keeping,
coop-mgt,group dynamics)-4 weeks
iv. Construction of chicken houses- 1 month
v. Procurement of chicks and distribution- 1 month
(Concurrent with chicken houses construction)
vi. Egg Production- 6 months ( optimally produces
eggs for 12-18 months)

15. Activity Plan and Budget
(9mths)
Activity Est Cost (USD) Time
frame
Responsibility
Comm Sensitization 200 (fuel) 2 wks UTaNRMP
Mkt Analysis/Bus Plan 1250 (Lunches for
staff and
Community + fuel)
1 wk UTaNRMP
Capacity Building 400 (fuel) 4 wks UTaNRMP
Shed Construction 1500 (costed at
USD 60)
1 mth Beneficiaries
Procurement of
chicks/initial
feeds/vaccines
2,000 1 mth PROCASUR
Egg production, 1200 (6 months 6 mths Beneficiaries

16. Budget breakdown
Organization Budget
(USD)
%
UTaNRMP 1850 28
Beneficiaries 2700 41
PROCASUR 2000 31
TOTAL 6550 100

17. Operation mechanism
i. Each of the 25 group
members/farmers will rear 50 chicken
within her home
ii. The Group members will market as a
group in order to benefit from market
price determination,s economies of
scale from input supplies as well as
access to technical services
 NB: The above arrangement is a new

18. Sustainability
i. The women group will be able to sustain
themselves from the income and
subsequent restocking
ii. Each member will be capacity built on good
record keeping
iii. The group will be assisted to develop a strategic
and business plan
iv. Adherence to group constitution and by-laws
v. Each household MUST plant trees/crops using the
manure
vi. Continuous Technical support from relevant Govt
departments