The CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food (CPWF) seeks abstracts for attending the 3rd International Forum on Water and Food to be held in South Africa from November 14-17, 2011.
The forum under 2nd Phase of CPWF will focus on assessing the progress to date and how to best maximize and capitalize on emerging results within and also beyond the CPWF river basins.
A specific focus will be given to the water and food development challenges posed in Africa and the role research-for-development could play in addressing these challenges.
The forum will also be an opportunity to expose, further explore and debate the experimental nature of the innovation research-for-development approach adopted by CPWF, making it increasingly accessible for adaptation and replication.
Forum Objectives:
– Ensure cross-basin learning across key common areas;
-Take stock of the opportunities and challenges presented by integrated basin based research for development with a view to further improvements across all basins;
– Assess project and program progress for each of the Basin Development Challenges with some early identification of anticipated significant results and key emerging basin, Africa and Global level messages, including potential to scale-up and scale-out.
Who should participate?
The participants of the Forum will include a wide variety of stakeholders including key project staff and partners from the six basins (Andes, Ganges, Mekong, Nile, Limpopo and Volta) of Phase-2, Topic Working Group Members and key partners. We envisage around 4 to 5 people participating from each project. Every project, as part of a Basin Development Challenge research program, contributes actively in multiple ways to the Forum – as individuals, project teams, BDC teams, TWG members, etc.
Other potential members include:
– CPWF Community members bridging both Phases 1 and 2 of the Program
– Topic Working Group leaders, members and partners
– CPWF staff working across the Program
– A group of “in-house” facilitators and documenters from within the CPWF Community
– Key partners from the CGIAR including: CGIAR Research Program Number 5 on Land, Water and Ecosystems, Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative, ICT-KM
– Other partners interested to see how ‘research for development’ can be done
– Donors and decision-makers from Africa and the global level
– Journalists from around Africa
Last date for submitting the abstract is July 15, 2011
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Dear sir/madam,
Our organization, Kishori Devi Foundation is a non profit, non governmental and non political organization registered under Society Registration Act 1860E of Government of India. We are pledged to work for the welfare of the human beings and the society. We have applied for FCRA. We are the grassroot organisation working in Uttar Pradesh since one year by our own funds. In this regard, a complete proposal may be submitted for your kind perusal. So, kindly send us the detailed information/guidelines regarding the submission of the proposal.
Looking forward to your support and co-operation.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
Dipendra Dubey
President (Kishori Devi Foundation)
TESO PARENTS’ SCHOOL CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION (TESO PARENTS’ SCHOOL)
Introduction
Teso Parents’ School child’s care Organization is a community based organization tailored towards mitigating the effects of war and poverty in the rural settings of Ngora county Ngora district in north Eastern Uganda in East Africa.
The project specifically targets rural children who are either orphans or needy due to multiple causes including war, poverty, HIV/AIDS among others. TESO PARENTS’ SCHOOL offers to support children through improving the learning environment by providing scholastic materials, uniform and lunch while at school.
BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT
It is important to note that north and north eastern Uganda has been a theatre of war, cattle rustling and natural calamities intermittently for more than 25 years.
Between 1986-1992, the people of Ngora district and Teso region in general experienced war between the government of Uganda and rebels of the Uganda peoples Army (UPA). Occurring at the same time and almost in tandem was cattle rustling orchestrated by the Karamojong warriors.
While many lives were lost, people displaced and property looted due to war more than million heads of cattle was looted from the Teso sub-region by the karamojong warriors. That statistic excludes other traditional sources of wealth such as goats, sheep and chicken which also fell prey to the karamojong raiders. This twin tragedy delivered a debilitating effect of poverty, helplessness and disorientation among the population. Rural farming which was a source of livelihood for the people was distorted because the oxen which had been used for ploughing large pieces of land had now been looted.
This led to low production hence famine and poverty.
After a break of about 10 years, the region was again invaded by rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from northern Uganda and Southern Sudan between 2003/2004.
The LRA of Joseph Kony is a notorious rebel out fit which has been terrorizing Uganda, Sudan and D.R. Congo.
Their presence in the Teso sub-region led to abductions, displacement and murder of innocent people.
While the people of Ngora and Teso were trying to recuperate from the above ordeals, Mother Nature a gain unleashed its excesses in the form of floods in 2007/8. The worst of its kind in the region, homes were sub-merged and cut off, crops destroyed hence rendering the population once again, helpless and displaced. This conspiracy of human and natural calamities has grossly affected the education sector in the region. The use of the hand hoe in farming has led to low productivity in the villages. Parents can not effectively meet the education needs of their children as compared to other parts of Uganda.
The region has registered the worst performance in education in the last 25 years.
While the trend of education in the district is grossly pathetic at all levels we believe that giving a child a good foundation in primary school increases their chances for a better future.
AIMS OF THE PROJECT
The project has two major aims;
To support orphans and needy children of Ngora county through provision of basic school needs.
To promote academic performance hence improving retention and completion among rural school children.
To mobilize and sensitize parents/guardians and the community to positively contribute to wards the education needs of their children.
OBJECTIVES
To provide scholastic materials such as; 600 dozens of 96 exercise books, 20 boxes of pens,100 packets of pencils, 100 calculators,100 geometrical sets to 100 children per year.
To provide 450 sanitary pads for the girl child during school term, 200 pairs of school uniforms and 100 school bags to 100 children annually.
To provide meals (lunch) and food containers to 100 children annually at school.
To organize homes visits and parents day meetings with parents of the target beneficiaries termly.
PROBLEM STATEMENT.
The north and North Eastern regions of Uganda have suffered the effects of more than 20 years of war and cattle rustling. Many families lost lives and were displaced, children were abducted by the rebels and agriculture collapsed. The oxen which were an equivalent of a tractor used for ploughing were looted by the Karamojong rustlers. The local people were left with the option of embracing the hand hoe as a means of cultivation which led to low productivity. This brought about wide spread famine and poverty.
The assault of natural calamities such as floods in Teso in 2008 only served to exacerbate the situation. Villages were sub-merged and cut off, crops were destroyed and some schools were closed.
The biggest causalities of any conflict and natural calamites are usually children. Their dependence on other people is the source of their vulnerability.
The situation is worst for the rural child whose parents lack a reliable source of income. Education remains the only hope for such a child to break through the cycle of poverty, giving them hope for a better future.
In rural Uganda, five out of every ten children who join primary one drop off before reaching primary seven. The reasons for such massive school dropout have been identified as inability by the parents to provide school related needs of the children. A child who can not afford lunch will not concentrate on studies in the afternoon.
Many head teachers keep chasing a way children who are not in school uniform leading to absenteeism. Children who cannot afford scholastic materials will not concentrate on their studies. The girl child is more vulnerable under such circumstances because she is susceptible to be lured into early marriage or pregnancy.
Ngora district is one of the poor performing districts in Uganda. In 2010 Primary Leaving Examination results, the district obtained only 61 first graders from 82 primary schools. Sixty four primary schools in the whole district recorded zero first graders. This not with standing the fact that 2010 results were better than the previous ones.
Such dismal performance can not be compared to other districts like Rukungiri which scored 950, Mukono 4000 and Kampala 7000 respectively.
This project hopes to provide a panacea to such apathetic situation obtaining in Ngora county Ngora district.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT
This project is significant because it will provide a chance for the orphans or needy children under it to complete their primary education.
Surveys and the studies have proved that even with the existence of the government program of Universal Primary Education, more than half of the children who begin the program in primary one do not complete primary seven because of the associated costs such as uniform, scholastic materials and lunch which many rural parents can not afford.
Monitor May 2nd 2011, pgs 15 &16, confirms this fact.
This project will also provide an enabling environment for beneficiary children to excel in their studies.
The children of TESO PARENTS’ SCHOOL will be able to concentrate on their studies since all the necessary needs will be provided. It is hoped that this uninterrupted concentration of our children will be a stimulus for them to perform better with excellent grades in their Primary Leaving Examinations.
The project will provide a safety net for children accruing from HIV affected families. Priority in recruitment will be given to the most disadvantaged and yet brilliant children.
Through this project, we hope that the communities will be mobilized to be more responsible towards the education of their children through sensitization seminars and community mobilization.
With the background of a post conflict area in mind, this project will cushion the most affected families still recovering from the effects of war, cattle rustling, natural calamities, such families are usually constrained and many not be in position to effectively afford the school needs of their children.
This project is significant because it contributes directly to the realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The provision of Universal Primary Education (UPE) is a universal pledge by our leaders in this century. This project will make a small contribution towards that greater goal of nations by making it more real in the lives of the needy children of Ngora County.
This project is an expression of love and fulfillment of God’s greatest commandment to man kind of loving one another.
This love is demonstrated by shaping the future of these innocent young souls through education.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
Teso Parents’School child’s care Organization is a community based initiative focused on promoting the education performance of orphans and needy children in a post conflict area.
The project will cater for the basic school needs of primary school pupils with the view of increasing opportunities for better performance
The project shall initially be based in Ngora county Ngora district. Its activities may however spread to other parts of the district and Teso sub-region.
All stake holders in the district shall be rallied in an effort to achieve aims.
These stakeholders shall include among others; the district leadership, the education department, Parents, churches and community leaders.
The project shall run its activities through a project office which shall be located in Ngora County or any other place deemed convenient by the project director (manager) and the Board of Directors (BOD)
The project shall initially be run by skeleton staff of four people, two of whom shall be permanent while the other two shall be part timers.
The project director shall be one of the permanent staff with an office administrator, who shall also function as a cashier,
The part time staff shall include a community mobilizer and an office cleaner.
The project is intended to commence in the 2011-2012 financial year with the recruitment of 100 children of Ngora County.
The recruitment exercise shall involve head teachers, community leaders, parents, guardians and TESO PARENTS’ SCHOOL staff.
The project shall operate on an annual budget which shall be prepared and presented to prospective funders, Non Governmental Organization’s (NGO’s), friends, churches and well wishers for support. An effective financial management and accounting procedures shall be established and maintained by staff including presentation of annual accountability reports to the Board of Directors and the funders.
It is envisaged that the project shall initially commerce with the recruitment of 100 pupils who shall be provided with the following basic school supplies on a termly basis.
1. An assortment of scholastic materials which shall include exercise books, pens, pencils, sets and calculators.
2. A pair of school uniform shall be provided to each pupil at the beginning of the year. Another pair shall be provided in the same year after the project staff has established that the first one had been appropriately utilized.
3. The project management shall establish a mechanism to ensure that lunch is provided for all the children while at school.
4. Food containers and school bags shall also be provided.
5. Sanitary pads shall be provided to the girl child.
6. A periodic counseling and community mobilization program which shall involve children and their parents or guardians
The project shall be run by the project director working under the BOD and a constitution.
The project office shall be rented and furnished with basic office requirements in order to facilitate the realization of the objectives
It is envisaged that the project shall acquire a motorcycle to facilitate transport which is necessary in the process of implementing project activities.
METHODOLOGY OF IMPLEMENTATION
The project shall be implemented by the project staff working together with local leaders, teachers and parents.
The community shall be sensitized and mobilized and recruitment for the needy children shall be done with help of teachers of the selected schools.
Successful candidates shall be provided with an assortment of uniforms, exercise books, sets, calculators, pens, pencils, school bags and food containers.
The girl child shall additionally be provided with sanitary pads.
The project shall establish feeding centers’ near each school of the chosen children.
Being new, the project shall be flexible to local realities in the implementation of its objectives.
PROPOSED BUDGET
ITEM Q’TY UNIT COST AMOUNT PERIOD
Scholastic materials
Exercise books
Sets
Pens
Pencils in packets
Uniform
School bags
Calculators
600
100
20
100
200
100
100
5,000
2,500
15,000
2,000
40,000
5,000
3,000
3,000,000
25,000,000
300,000
200,000
8,000,000
500,000
300,000 Per year
Sub-total 12,550,000
Feeding
Lunch
Food containers
Sub-total
Others
Sanitary pads
Parents meeting
Sub-total
Personnel
Program manager
Office admin
Community mobiliser
Office cleaner
100
100
450
100
12
12
12
12
9,000,000
5,000
3,000
15,000
800,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
29,700,000
500,000
30,200,000
1,350,000
1,500,000
2,850,000
9,600,000
3,600,000
2,400,000
1,200,000
Per year
Sub-total 16,800,000
Office supplies
Office desks
Office chairs
Shelves
Computer
Laptop
02
02
01
01
01
250,000
180,000
150,000
1,500,000
900,000
500,000
360,000
150,000
1,500,000
900,000 Per year
Sub-total 3,410,000
Office stationery
Files (box)
Ream of papers
T/P(toilet papers)
Pens
Staples & staplers
Visitors chairs
Plastic chairs
05
05
10
02
01
06
06
5,000
14,000
12,000
15,000
15,000
50,000
15,000
25,000
70,000
12,000
30,000
15,000
300,000
90,000 Per year
Sub-total 542,000
Transport
Motorcycle
Helmet
Raincoats
Insurance
Fuel in ltrs
Transport to K’la
Field allowance
01
02
02
01
600
12
12
3,000,000
15,000
70,000
39,000
4,000
100,000
80,000
3,000,000
30,000
140,000
39,000
2,400,000
1,200,000
960,000
Per year
Sub-total 7,769,000
Administrative cost
Office rent
Power and water
Hospitality
12
12
12
250,000
60,000
30,000
3,000,000
720,000
360,000 Per year
Sub-total 4,080,000
GRAND TOTAL 79,401,000
33,100$
US DOLLARS Per year