Integr. Cap. Building for Farmers Livelihood Impr. Phase III NTT Province is a province in the eastern of Indonesia where the community experiences drought every year. The precipitation in the area is average 1500 – 3000 mm/year with average a 4 month rainy season per year and the farmers depend on the rainfall to support their agriculture activity. Due to the agriculture knowledge limitation, the commodity that the majority farmers grow is limited only to fulfil their staple food need. The main commodity that is planted is corn. With such a low precipitation, farmers can only plant corn once or maximum twice per year. Other commodity that they plant is sweet potato but the amount is just for household need. Based on the data released by Bappenas (Ministry of National Development Planning - July 2015, the total number of farmers in the province was 1,109,220 and only 8% from the figure who grew vegetables. To fulfil their household needs, farmers usually work outside the village as motorbike drivers, construction workers and in other informal sectors. 

The PPL’s agriculture knowledge is low and the government does not provide any capacity building for them. This corresponds to the low farmers’ capacity. Even some of the PPL never visit his/her accompanied villages.  The Agriculture Agency regular program are mainly distributing seeds, registering the farmer groups, evaluating the performance of the farmer groups and determining the level of farmer groups.

The district level Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) in both Kupang and Soe Districts do not implement any measure yet to help the farmers minimize drought risks. Drought is categorized as a slow onset disaster and the government doesn’t prioritize this type of hazard. Overall goal: 
The project aims to create a network consisted farmers and other related stakeholders across a watershed in order to enable farmers to reduce drought risks on agriculture, to do a sustainable vegetable production and to manage their farming business and to increase the income of minimum 975 farmers. 

Specific objectives: 

1.	To move the farmer groups’ level into higher level (in accordance to the government policy) through direct accompaniment on GAP, 3R and organization management.
2.	To enable accompanied farmer groups, farmer group unions and Bumdes implement their work as community based enterprises who are able to develop a business plan and implement it.  
3.	With all related stakeholders to map the vegetable supply, demand, distribution and sales in West Timor, to identify gaps and to look for solution to overcome challenges including to respond to the vegetable price fluctuation.
4.	To establish a networking among farmer groups, farmer group unions and other related stakeholders in the watershed level that is able to make a plan across the watershed to prevent over production or less production of certain vegetables in the watershed level and are able to access market for selling the vegetable production.
5.	To train potential stakeholders on GAP and 3R in order to disseminate the lessons to broader community members.
6.	To establish a model of a village that has a drought contingency planning and is able to implement it into practice. There will be total 40 new farmer groups for the next project. The plan is that the project will work with 20 new farmer groups in 2018 and 20 farmer groups in 2019 while still reaching 18 farmer groups from the previous project.