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IMPACT OF AFRICARE’S1 ACTIVITIES IN NYAKYIBANDE VILLAGE, UGANDA (Pages : 45 - 51)

AFRICARE is an NGO that has been working in Nyakibande village since the year 2000. In the Nyakibande area, AFRICARE works with existing community groups to improve peoples’ livelihood through agriculture and livestock production. AFRICARE also helped to formalize a credit scheme through a local bank that allows participants to save up and take out loans to support their activities. The purpose of this report is to study the sustainability of AFRICARE’s project on the livelihoods and resources management in Nyakibande village. To gather primary information livelihood analysis and seasonal calendar were carried out with the community. Besides, semi-structured interviews were done; in this case all respondents were selected randomly. All data was qualitative which was analyzed using inductive approach. AFRICARE provided training and materials that led to diversification in the households. Furthermore it contributes to improve agriculture and livestock production in the village, and to face with some environmental problems in the area. A challenge that was noted with the AFRICARE programs was that, due to different reasons, the poorest farmers did not attend the work groups. Groups’ members and non-members said that they were happy about what AFRICARE had given to them and their community, even though they still had some challenges to face. Also, a majority of respondents said that the training and knowledge was the most important thing that they had gained from AFRICARE and that they would continue to use this knowledge whether the organization was still there or not.Download