EMPOWERING RURAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH INCREASED KNOWLEDGE, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AND INCOME

CREATING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY BY DELIVERING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND RESOURCES TO LAST MILE FARMERS

A MARKET-BASED SOLUTION FOR GIRLS TO BECOME THRIVING AGRIPRENEURS

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KadAfrica is the alliance between a business and an NGO

Our Vision

We envision an equal world where rural smallholder farmers thrive.
A world where both men and women farmers live prosperous and healthy lives.

our mission

To increase knowledge, agricultural productivity, and income of smallholder farmers in East Africa

We do this by:

delivering skills, knowledge and resources to last-mile farmers
guaranteeing access to formal markets while reducing the number of intermediaries

To remove additional barriers for youth and women to access economic opportunities

We do this by:

focusing our outreach primarily to youth below 35
delivering additional holistic training on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy; so women and girls reach their full potential

our farmers

SMALLHOLDER FARMERS

Our smallholder farmers are men and women, from local and refugee communities.

OUT OF SCHOOL BENEFICIARIES

KadAfrica works with out of school girls and young women in Kabarole District in Western Uganda. Girls are between 14 and 24 years old.

REFUGEE BENEFICIARIES

Uganda is currently hosting more than 1.3 million refugees and continues to receive new arrivals. 70% of refugee households rely on humanitarian food distribution as their main source of food. KadAfrica is different from most livelihood programs, as we offer access to a guaranteed market. KadAfrica is engaging more than 3,000 refugees across Ugandan refugee settlements.

We pledge

That growing our business means growing our impact and the number of farmers we can work with

GOING THE EXTRA MILE To SUPPORT YOUNG WOMEN

The KadAfrica Experience is a cycle of increasing impact that builds girls’ skills and agency, so that they are able to realize their rights, determine their life outcomes, and influence decision making in households and communities.

The kadafrica experience

The KadAfrica Experience was launched in 2015. The model includes an age and gender-specific curriculum and complimentary family programming and advocacy component. It provides learning opportunities for out of school girls and young women. Training sessions coupled with land access and the direct establishment of an agribusiness and a guaranteed market ready for 100% of the cooperatives’ production.

We enroll girls in farming cooperatives and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and resources to begin their own farms.

our 3-part TRAINING SESSIONS

AGRICULTURE

Our agricultural sessions is a tailor made ”Earn as you Learn” approach, aimed at improving girls’ access to income through farming. Each girl within the program receives a farm start-up kit, and access to land.

LIFE SKILLS & BUSINESS ACUMEN

Life Skills sessions are designed to build girls’ competency within gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), entrepreneurship, and advocacy. Life Skills are crucial for female participants’ success as small farmers within the challenging context of Uganda’s patriarchal economic practices.

FINANCIAL LITERACY & SAVINGS

Each cooperative set up their own savings groups, where they can also take up small loans and earn interest. They receive financial literacy training that imparts the value of savings and planning for the future.