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Ateker Development Foundation – Multi Actor Partnership (ADEFO-MAP)

Teso sub region, faces a number of vulnerabilities such as high poverty level emanating from limited access to production assets and low agricultural productivity that constitute the main sector resulting to: low household incomes, food and nutrition insecurity; low access to education facilities, high disease burden; and prone to the effects of climate change such as prolonged dry spells, flooding and water logging in low lying areas. Thus, Hoffnungszeichen | Sign of Hope e.V., and SOCADIDO facilitated the process for the establishment of Teso Development Forum as a multi actor partnership (MAP).
Smallholder farmers and farmer groups in Teso sub-region required a process that increases their capabilities to make choices and to influence collective decisions towards desired actions and outcomes on the basis of those choices, an opportunity which a MAP provides.
Multi-Actor Partnerships (MAP) enable meaningful collaboration among actors along value chains to connect and accelerate bigger impact to achieve urgent results and changes that contribute to sustainable development. For value chains to work best, the actors must cooperate to produce higher-quality products and generate more income for all individual actors along the chain, as opposed to the simplest kinds of value chains, in which producers and buyers exchange only price information, often in a competitive mode.

Our Vision

Empowered, organised, successful and resilient
small holder farmers in Teso

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Our Mision

Supporting small holder farmers’ initiatives
and needs.

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Our Values

Accountability, Integrity,Transparency,Diversity,Mutual Respect, Cooperation, Voluntarism,Stewardship
and Unity

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Our Objective

The typical goal of multi-actor value chain partnership is the inclusion of smallholders and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into commercial chains.

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Our Principle

Effective documentation, experience capitalisation and sharing of lessons and good practices among and between various actors.

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Key to Success

Aligning and contextualising the implementation and monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks to ensure coherence in the operationalisation of MAP

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Our Offices

Located at;

SOCADIDO Complex,
Plot 27, Serere Road,
Soroti City East

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Project Director :
+256 776 53 44 44
Project Coordinator : +256 772 88 41 99

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On Email;

info@adefo-map.org

ADEFO-MAP

HISTORY

Teso is an agricultural producing sub region with over 80% of the people relying on agriculture for their livelihood. Despondently, farmers still practice subsistence farming and employ rudimentary technologies for production, which is worsened by climate change. The smallholder farmers’ inability to access agricultural financing and extension services as well as adequate markets remain a major challenge. Different stakeholders are implementing various programs in several sectors including agriculture, health, and governance among others that are very vital for the development of the Teso sub region; however, there is no coordination among the actors. This causes duplication of effort and resource use inefficiencies.
SOCADIDO and Hoffnungszeichen | Sign of Hope e.V. facilitated the establishment and institutionalisation of a multi-sectoral development forum as a Multi-Actor-Partnership (MAP) with representatives from key actors and institutions for the joint concerted effort to strengthen the economic power and social resilience of about 75,000 households in Teso sub-region in Eastern Uganda. The MAP platform focuses on agriculture value chains whose outcome will have positive ripple effects on the livelihood, poverty reduction, and healthcare as priority sectors. This therefore, will help solve the not meaningful and scattered development interventions occurring in Teso sub-region because each actor is operating individually resulting in a lot of duplication and wastage of resources. By the actors coming together in a MAP, Teso sub-region expect streamlined and coordinated development efforts and resources to benefit the smallholder farmers and marginalised communities.

OUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

The overall goal of the MAP is to build the capacity of the actors and ensure their sustainability in the Teso sub region. The capacity of all the MAP actors will be developed simultaneously by focusing on the implementation of the MAP at three critical target levels: The coordinating container, implementation framework, and evaluation framework. For this, the following guide the institutional development plan for the MAP: Strengthening the capacity of the multi actor partnership through recruitment and retooling of discipline-specific professionals to backstop the implementation processes. Conducting capacity building trainings based on the implementation framework. Aligning and contextualising the implementation and monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks to ensure coherence in the operationalisation of MAP. Developing user-friendly curricular for various actors through stakeholder engaging process in workshops-hands-on trainings to promote buy-in and ownership to develop required competencies of the MAP. Continuous engagement of the actors through dialogues facilitated by experts. Effective documentation, experience capitalisation and sharing of lessons and good practices among and between various actors.