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Developing Social Capital: Engaging the Poorest Communities

Developing Social Capital: Engaging the Poorest Communities. Pierre Ferrari President and CEO. Engaging Poor Communities. What do these communities say they lack? What are their needs Listening to the community and small-holder farmers is key to supporting and providing services.

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Developing Social Capital: Engaging the Poorest Communities

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  1. Developing Social Capital: Engaging the Poorest Communities Pierre Ferrari President and CEO

  2. Engaging Poor Communities • What do these communities say they lack? • What are their needs • Listening to the community and small-holder farmers is key to supporting and providing services

  3. What Role do NGOs Play? • What can NGOs do to support communities? • NGO perspective • What has worked? • What hasn’t worked?

  4. Heifer’s Relationship to these Communities • How has Heifer responded to the needs of the communities? • Heifer’s approaches • EADD Hub model • How do these approaches help build social capital for the communities?

  5. Theory of Change Heifer International believes that the world’s most vulnerable smallholder farmers, including women, can produce adequate food and surplus to feed their families, communities and the world, if their capacity is enhanced in combination with the right inputs. Factors contributing to poverty and hunger: Marginalization, gender discrimination, lack of access to resources and services, lack of diversified livelihood opportunities, vulnerability, low income, and environmental degradation Goal:Increased global food security Outcomes: 1. Diversified sources of income 2. Increase in productive assets 3. Scaled up IG activities 4. Access to market and appropriate financial services 1. Year round availability and access to food 2. Surplus food to markets 3. Increased consumption of diverse and nutritious food 4. Improved hygiene and water/ sanitation practices 1. Agro-ecological farming practices 1. Leadership roles 2. Access to and control over income and assets 3. Participation in decision making at household and community level 1. Functioning Self Help Groups/farmer organizations; 2. Functioning Cooperatives/ social enterprises 3. Active national networks/ alliances/ social movements Food security and nutrition Improved Environment Increased Social Capital Women ‘s Empowerment Increase in income and assets Preconditions: 1. Context specific training and input supports (animals, seeds, plants etc); 2. Linkage to markets and value chain; 3. Imparting knowledge and skills 1. Appropriate package of physical inputs 2. Establishment of homestead gardens; 3. Training for increased knowledge of nutrition of locally available food 1. Promotion of agro-ecological farming practices  1. Women’s group formation 2. Prioritize women’s membership in selection criteria 3. Focus on livestock species and other inputs appropriate for women’s needs 4. Design projects with gender lens with specific focus on the socio-economic benefit for women 1. Organize, create, and strengthen groups, coops, alliances, social movements 2. Values enhancement through cornerstones 3. Social mobilization Interventions:

  6. Unique Approach Community-based Dairy Hub Business Framework Farming families Community-based dairy & livestock services Community-based banking & credit services Village Groups DMG / DIG / DFG Dairy Hub CP or TM Hub-based feed enterprise Other hub-based enterprises Bulk milk buyers & consumers

  7. How the Hub Works – Virtuous Cycle of Buyers & Sellers FARMERS OTHER RELATED MEs CHILLING HUB VILLAGE BANKS FIELD DAYS TESTING

  8. Food Security & Social Capital • Importance that women-centered programs have in improving the community • Examples of community engagement and women empowerment within the projects Heifer works.

  9. Social Entrepreneurs Women’s (SEW) Cooperative in Nepal In Nepal, SEW Cooperatives are determined to put "social" back into social enterprises. They are comprised of small-scale farmer families, each represented by a woman, and provide a voice for their community’s needs and build rapport with local governments and other resource providers.  

  10. SudhamiyaPaswan, 33 Livestock for Poverty Alleviation in Terai Region – NEPAL (22-0531-17) • Received a buffalo • Morning milk sold to dairy, evening milk for family • Curd made from excess milk and sold • Sold manure • With additional income, purchased goat and installed irrigation for her land Sudhamiya deposited part of her income into the group’s savings for the pass-on fund. When the required amount is saved, a buffalo is passed on to another woman in need. Recipients are given 36 months to collect adequate funds for the pass on. Sudhamiyawas able to make her pass-on within 10 months of receiving her buffalo.

  11. Dolores Delgado AllinKausay- Good Living: Agroecology and Local Andean Markets (ARPAC) PERU (23-1740-02) • Most terrain is barren and brown, they have been able to grow vegetables and fodder • Uses organic fertilizer on farm • Received guinea pigs • Money saved because they grow the guinea pigs food • Has received training on animal care Guinea pigs have been a source of nutrition After constructing a shed, Dolores and her husband are building an addition with an improved stove prepare and serve guinea pigs. Dolores says “When your home known for guinea pigs… your neighbors will do the same.” The community is able to then share in the profits and development.

  12. Thank you.

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