ecfcaucasus.org
West Asia, Middle East
Carmen
Kuntz
Identify priority conservation areas using habitat suitability models for key animal species.
Financial Participatory Approach (FPA) tool
Establishment of community-based organizations (CBOs)
Securing long term land-use rights for the community and conservation objectives
Creation of a local ranger program
Commitment to explicit, attainable conservation objectives through long-term Conservation Agreements
ecfcaucasus.org
West Asia, Middle East
Carmen
Kuntz
Identify priority conservation areas using habitat suitability models for key animal species.
Financial Participatory Approach (FPA) tool
Establishment of community-based organizations (CBOs)
Securing long term land-use rights for the community and conservation objectives
Creation of a local ranger program
Commitment to explicit, attainable conservation objectives through long-term Conservation Agreements
Partnerships and collaboration around nutritional security

Working together with other stakeholders for synergy helps in ensuring success.

Pooling human, technical and financial resources helps in achieving more for less time and money, and also helps curb replication of solutions.

All partners and the community are actively involved in the entire process thus each party takes ownership resulting to success.

  • Cordial relations among all stakeholders
  • Timely communication and coordiantion to enable participation
  • Resource allocation by each participating partner to ensure smooth operations hence no gaps/delays in service delivery

Stakeholder collaboration is essential for successful problem diagnosis, identification, planning and implemetation of any interventions in the community

Designing Community Action Plans

Community led initiatives have a higher chance of success. Working with the community for the community is one of the best ways of ensuring process and results ownership.

In our reference case of Vihiga County, after desseminating results of the baseline survey to the intevention community, with the guidance of all participating partners the locals were allowed to brainstorm and come up with possible feasible interventions.

This largely contributed to the success of the project as the participants enthusiastically made effort to ensure successful implementation and continuity. Some members voluntered their land and other resources towards the project, it beng their very own.

Partners offered some financial support to kick start the project, and also agri nutrition knowledge and skills.

Inclusivity

Collaboration

Community active participation

For an intervention to work best, let it be community owned and actioned from inception, with the guidance of other participating partners like the government and donors.

Collecting Agirnutrition and Konwledge, Attitude and Practice Data

Reliable and recent data about the study community is a key contributor to the success of an intervention.

Data provides prior knowledge of the community and possible areas of collaboration with other exisiting projects, if any exist.

In our Vihiga project, results of the baseline survey informed us of the current situation (exisiting nutritional gaps). The results were also shared with the communities and it is from these findings that the communties based their deliberations and came up with possible ways of tackling the problems found.

For scaling up of the project in Turkana and Ethiopia, we will utilize agrinutrition data collected earlier in both areas.

Data collection in the mid and end will help determine the effectiveness or otherwise of the intervention

  • Selection of a representative sample 
  • Accuracy in data collection, entry and analysis
  • Simplified dissemination of research findings to enable uderstanding by the community hence relevant intervention.
  • It is important to carry out a diagnostic study before any intervention plans in order to establish exisiting gaps
  • Our use of mixed methods in data collection helped in data verification
  • It is important to invest in the whole research process-data collection, cleaning and analysis for accurate representative results.
Bioversity International/Y. Morimoto
Collecting Agirnutrition and Konwledge, Attitude and Practice Data
Designing Community Action Plans
Partnerships and collaboration around nutritional security
Bioversity International/Y. Morimoto
Collecting Agirnutrition and Konwledge, Attitude and Practice Data
Designing Community Action Plans
Partnerships and collaboration around nutritional security