Project Design Summary

for Sustainable Agriculture Education for Women in Nigeria

Strategic Objective:
! Improved household incomes in Northern Nigeria

Relevant IRs and sub-IRs for this project (with corresponding Results Framework
numbers):
! Improved access to agricultural education for women (IR 2.1);
! Increased understanding of alternative agricultural methods (IR 3)

PART ONE

Project Component/Activity Cluster: Mobilization
Partner with schools and reach out to local government and community leaders.

Rationale: In order to build support from the community, the local government and prominent
community members need to be involved in spreading the message of our organization.
Community leaders are usually also religious leaders, who will be instrumental in influencing
opinions about womens involvement in agriculture.

Target Audience(s): Schools (aumin, teacheis, tiaineis), local goveinment officials,
community leaueis anu membeis

Timing of Activities: Fiist S months of pioject, foi establishment anu builuing of
connections

Frequency of Activities: Baily community engagement; Nonthly check-in with uppei-
level leaueis; Nonthly hosteu activity in community

Duration of Activities: 2-S houis pei meeting with each community leauei, school, etc.

Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization anu the local goveinment

Additional Comments: Nobilizing community leaueis will allow us to ieach scale moie
efficiently as it will ieuuce the time anu cost of conuucting outieach to inuiviuual
community membeis.

Project Component/Activity Cluster: Organizational Capacity Development
Tiaining oui staff anu community leaueis togethei to become agiicultuial euucation
tiaineis.

Rationale: The tiaining of oui staff anu the local community tiaineis will take place
simultaneously so that the 0.S. staff aie familiai with the conuitions in the aiea. This will
be both moie financially efficient anu will builu tiust between the 0.S. tiaineis anu local
community tiaineis.

Target Audience(s): Teacheis in the local communities anu oui new staff hiies

Timing of Activities: Following completion of the fiist mobilization campaign (Nonth 4)

Frequency of Activities: S uaysweek

Duration of Activities: Seveial houis pei uay foi appioximately one month

Implementing Entity: Our organization

Additional Comments: Local community membeis that aie tiaineu in pioviuing
agiicultuial euucation will be able to iepeat tiainings, cieating an exit foi the pioject.

Project Component/Activity Cluster: Individual Capacity Development
This consists of the actual agiicultuial tiaining of female community membeis.

Rationale: Impioving women's access to agiicultuial euucation will allow them to engage
in sustainable faiming to boost theii incomes. The local community tiaineis aie key
facilitatois of the tiainings.

Target Audience(s): Noithein Nigeiian women living in iuial aieas

Timing of Activities: Following completion of 0iganizational Capacity Builuing (Nonth S)

Frequency of Activities: S uays pei week

Duration of Activities: S houisuay foi two months

Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization's tiaineis anu local community tiaineis

Additional Comments: Inuiviuual women who complete the agiicultuie euucation
tiainings can also ieciuit otheis anu help oui pioject achieve scale.

Project Component/Activity Cluster: Supply Improvement/ Demand Generation
Incieasing uemanu foi agiicultuial euucation thiough foiums about the benefit of
women in agiicultuie.

Rationale: Raising community awaieness about the impoitance anu benefit of women in
agiicultuie will help inciease suppoit of women woiking outsiue of the householu.

Target Audience(s): Women (age 1S+), community membeis (men anu women)

Timing of Activities: Fiist S months uuiing Nobilization component

Frequency of Activities: Weekly hosteu foium in uiffeient communities (uepenuing on
aiea)

Duration of Activities: 1 houi

Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization togethei with community leaueis

Additional Comments:

Project Component/Activity Cluster: Knowledge Generation
Auopting mateiials (tiaining piactices, guiues, etc) to euucate women in basic
agiicultuial piouuction piactices.

Rationale: 0ui assumption is that women aie neithei knowleugeable noi paiticipatoiy
in the agiicultuial sectoi anu uo not have access to euucational agiicultuial mateiials.

Target Audience(s): Women

Timing of Activities: 0ngoing seasonal euucation

Frequency of Activities: Baily euucationhanus-on tiaining, with monthly focus changing
accoiuing to season using auopteu mateiials

Duration of Activities: S houisuay, 6 uays a week

Implementing Entity: Our organization

Additional Comments: We intenu to utilize men as a knowleugeable iesouice foi
effective agiicultuial piactices.

Project Component/Activity Cluster: Material Assistance
Pioviuing incentive to encouiage women to become euucateu in agiicultuie as well as
incentive foi teacheistiaineis to paiticipate in the pioject.

Rationale: 0ffeiing an incentive will help inciease a uemanu anu if the seivice is of high
quality, the uemanu will be sustaineu even aftei an incentive is no longei offeieu.

Target Audience(s): Bouseholu membeis anu teacheistiaineis

Timing of Activities: Fiist yeai incentive foi paiticipants; all thiee yeais incentive foi
teacheistiaineis

Frequency of Activities: Eveiy time women paiticipate in euucational activities foi a
week; teacheistiaineis ieceive a stipenu once a month

Duration of Activities: Bistiibuteu at the enu of eveiy week's paiticipation

Implementing Entity: 0ui oiganization

Additional Comments:


PART TWO

Scale Plan: Initially, the project will run in only one community with one partner school. Scale
will be achieved through the creation of an association of certified agricultural trainers that will
introduce the trainings into new areas.

Sustainability Plan: We will maintain an enabling environment by keeping local government
officials and community leaders and members informed of the benefits of our project. We will
maintain behavioral change by consistently ensuring that participants are benefiting from our
service through formative assessments of participants ability to implement sustainable
agricultural techniques that generate additional income for their households. The benefits of
local womens adoption of sustainable agriculture will not expire, as once learned these
techniques can be implemented as long as environmental conditions remain relatively stable.

Exit Plan: The main thing that we will leave behind is the association of agricultural trainers that
will be able to train women in additional communities for a small fee. This will allow our
organization to phase over the training responsibilities to the local community, while phasing out
both the subsidy that the participating women were receiving and the stipend that teachers were
receiving from the organization.