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ALINIHA Self-Managed Association of Kobokoro(Association ALINIHA Autogre de Kobokoro) The project will enable Kobokoro to improve its production output and marketing capacity by developing two large diameter wells at each of the sites, acquisition of simple tools and transport equipment, and technical assistance and training in financial and administrative management.
Camara Semences Seeds Marketing Project Sector: Cereal (seed). Beneficiaries: 200 (10 women). Description: The project will promote activities to increase production, including training of old and new producers on improved seed production techniques; technical assistance and financial management support (hiring an accountant, an accounting firm to certify financial statements, and audits) to facilitate access to bank loans to increase access to foundation seed and fertilizer; construction of a 500 ton warehouse, a delivery vehicle, improved packaging to improve seed quality and market access.
Torodo Shallot Capacity Building Sector: Agriculture production (shallots) Beneficiaries: 181 women Description: This capacity building project will provide resources to conduct technical studies to address the lack of water availability at the group's production site and provide training and technical assistance to strengthen the group's technical, administrative, financial management, and marketing capabilities.
Kafoyiriwaso Soy Cake Capacity Building Project The grant will provide a ready market for 255 soy farmers in and around Koumantou by improving the operational capacity of the Cooperative to produce and market soy cake.
Sy Cereal Production and Marketing Expansion Sector: Cereal marketing, Beneficiaries: 858 (370 women), Description: The project will increase the cereal marketing capacity of the union through improved access to production inputs and advice, post-harvest grain treatment, increased capability to supply larger tenders for grain delivery, and improved financial and administrative management of the Union.
USCET Tamani Livestock Marketing Project Sector: Animal production.Beneficiaries: 2522 (1589 women).Description: The group seeks to develop a site where fattened cattle and sheep can be gathered and loaded on to trucks for delivery to LAHAM sloughterhouse or other clients. The infrastructure would include a fenced park, borehole, warehouse, shed, scale and other equipment that meet LAHAM standards. Financial management support would facilitate loan procurement from banks to fund animal acquisition. The Union would shift from marketing animals by individuals to marketing under the Union umbrella.
DOUN-KA-FA Seed Marketing Project Sector: Cereal seed production.Beneficiaries: 5 full-time employees, 30 part-time employees, 550 seed producers (150 women), plus buyers of improved seeds.Description: Dunkafa produces and distributes certified maize, millet, sorghum and rice seed. It partners with 8 seed producing cooperatives with 585 producers. Dunkafa produces base seed that it distributes for multiplication to local seed producers that Dunkafa then collects, processes and distributes to its shops and network of clients. Dunkafa plans to expand its current 150 Tons of seed produced to 270 tons in 4 years. The proposed project will increase Dunkafa's processing and distribution capabilities through construction of a storeroom, and show room, acquisition of a seed processing unit and a distribution truck.
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) - Ball - Doctix Malian doctors and patients lose a lot of time waiting, due to the lack of a systematic scheduling programfor doctorsappointments. To address this, Tidiane is running MaliSante, a platform that provides medical information, doctors office locations, and appointment scheduling services, to make managing patient care more efficient and to make people more healthy.
Jamajigi Seed and Cereal Capacity Building Project Sector: Cereal production and marketing (millet, sorghum, cowpeas) Beneficiaries: 2,933 (812 women) Activities: Capacity building, particularly organizational and financial management, including formalization of administrative and financial manuals, systems, and archives, and investment in access to production inputs and improved marketing facilities.
Traditional Bogolan Art and Marketing Funds training and technical assistance for artisans groups
Siby Shea Butter Capacity Building Project The project funds will be used to provide funds for production equipment to improve the quality and efficiency of sheabutter production activities. Funds will allow COOPROKASI to improve its organizational; administrative; and financial management; coordinate purchases of raw materials; and improve members technical skills to produce sheabutter products that meet industry standards .
FY20 Mali Partner Cooperative Agreement Mali Partner Cooperative Agreement funds the technical partner to provide grant design and implementation support to USADF's beneficiary groups. Funds disbursed to provide liquidity in light of unanticipated shocks impacting project activities and grantee enterprises due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds to assist with project needs in light of fund shortage due to COVID-19.
Socit Cooprative Guiryaaws The project funds will be used to increase production of organic sesame by members through technical innovations and to support Federation to negotiate better prices and marketing contracts with its buyers, thereby increasing producers incomes.
Balimaya Capacity Building Project The Balimaya Cooperative is located in Tourakagoubou, Bougouni. Funds enables Balimaya to build its financial and management capacity, procure additional equipment and improve output.
Tagari-Dogon Cereal Capacity Building Project The project funds will be used to provide a variety of trainings and capacity building support; to purchase and market cereals and build a warehouse that will allow the Union to strengthen its presence in the market as well as improve on the timeliness and quality of services it provides to it members.
Tissala Cereal Marketing Project The project funds will be used to (1) reduce members post-harvest losses; (2) increase the Unions capacity to clean; store; and deliver grain to buyers; (3) increase the revenues of the Union and its members; and (4) improve its financial and technical management systems.
Dangha Rice Production and Marketing Project helps small agricultural cooperative improve management and increase food production.
Dioro Milk Production Expansion Project The project funds will be increase and stabilize USCLCDFs milk supply in Dioroand improveits capacity to deliver processed milk to Segou by providing working capital and cargo motorcycles to selland distribute livestock feed and to purchase and collect milk from herders in the area.
Zantibougou Cereal Capacity Building Project The project funds will be used to provide a variety of training and capacity building activities; funds to purchase improved agricultural inputs; and a tractor to exploit fully the 35 hectares of land available to the Association.
Sabougnouma Rice Marketing Project Through the project SCOOP-CA Sabougnouma intends to increase its rice storage capacity; strengthen its marketing capacity; increase the incomes of its members and; improve its administrative and financial management practices and standards.
Sebougou Onion Marketing Project The grant will support 1,005 onion farmers in and around Sebougou, of whom 917 are women, to improve their yields. The grant will also improve the Association's capacity for storage and marketing of onions.
Mango Processing and Marketing Project builds the capacity of mango processing group.
Koulikoro Local Union of Dry Cereal Producers Cooperative Societies (Union Locale des Socits Coopratives des Producteurs des Crales Sches de Koulikoro) Koulikoro Coarse Grain Producers Cooperative Union Capacity Building Project
NToba Horticulture Capacity Building Project The project funds will be used to improve the groups one hectare plot by installing a new irrigation system and fencing it to protect it from roaming animals. The Cooperative will also construct three wells that will provide a reliable and constant source of water to the production perimeter.
FY21 Mali Partner Cooperative agreement 2021 Partner CA Renewal Mali/AE2C. The Partner is an organization with which USADF signs a performance-based cooperative agreement to provide technical assistance and support to applicants and grantees in designing, developing, implementing, and assessing projects funded by the Foundation.
URFBV Sikasso Livestock Expansion Project Sector: Livestock.Beneficiaries: 3271 (71 women).Description: The group will develop four (4) sites where animals can be gathered and put into trucks for delivery. Each site will include a fenced park, a borehole, a warehouse and a shed. These will faciltate contracting with LAHAM sloughterhouse. The group will also strengthen its capacity in animal fattening to meet LAHAM standards and financial management to facilitate loan procurement from banks to fund animal purchase by selected herders. The Union will shift from individual marketing of animals to marketing under the Union umbrella.
Seneyiriwaton de Koumantou Seed Production Capacity Building Sector: Cereal marketing, Beneficiaries: 165 farmers, Description: The project will increase the cooperative's financial and administrative capacity and ability to market members' surplus coarse grain production.
FY22 Mali Partner Cooperative Agreement This cooperative agreement grant will fund Senegal Partner Ae2Cs (Audit Expertise, Comptable et Conseil) activities in support of the USADF country portfolio and its grantees between October 2021 and September 2022.
Finkolo Ganadougou Rice Production and Marketing Capacity Building Sector: Rice processing/marketing, Beneficiaries: 1,326 women , Description: The grant will strengthen the Union's financial and administrative capacity, while improving its capacity to process paddy and market members' excess production.
Binkola Cereal Marketing Project Through the project SCOOPS-Binkola intends to increase its cereal storage capacity; strengthen its marketing capacity; increase the incomes of its members and; improve its administrative and financial management practices and standards.
Laundromat Business for Fistulous Women Funds are used to build management and production capacity at a laundromat for women stigmatized with fistulas.
Wacoro Cereal Marketing Capacity Building Sector: Sorghum and cowpea marketing, Participants: 802 women, Description: The project will support capacity building and formalization of the group as a fully registered cooperative; improved storage and cereal conditioning for market; and training in improved cereal production techniques.
Mali Partner Cooperative Agreement This is the Cooperative Agreement for USADF's technical partner in Mali.
COPROSEM Onion Seed Marketing Project Sector: Vegetable seed production.Beneficiaries: 69 (23 women) plus seed buyers.Description: COPROSEM aims to increase their production of lower cost certified Violet de Galmi onion seed for the Mali market, as well as in Senegal, which COPROSEM is well-placed to supply, as well as to begin to supply other certified vegetable seeds.
Tendely Cereal Capacity Building Project The project funds will be used to strengthen the Union s production and marketing capacity and that of its members for cereals; mainly cowpeas and millet. Project funds will help the Union develop its financial and management capacity to better plan members production and to negotiate better prices and marketing contracts with its buyers.
Syn Rice Marketing Project The project aims to increase the production and marketing capacity of Societe Cooperative des Agriculteurs de Syn (SOCOA-S) by increasing access to water in the area's rice-growing perimeter.
Zegue Cashew Marketing Project The project aims to increase Zegue Agro Industrie's capacity to produce, process and sell cashews. This was to be achieved by procuring roasting, transportation, and packaging equipment.
Audit, Expertise, Comptable, et Conseil (AE2C) Audit, Expertise, Comptable, et Conseil (AE2C)
Boidie Cereal Marketing Capacity Building Project The project funds will be used to increase its post-harvest processing; storage; and marketingcapacity.
Tingoni Cereal Marketing Project The project funds will be used to help the group improve its production; storage; and marketing capacity.
NIHR GHPSR Development Award: Identification of Research Priorities for Road Safety in Nepal This activity is a research study to achieve consensus on the priorities for research on road safety in Nepal, using the framework of the WHO 5 Pillars of road safety.
Production of an interactive toolkit on sexual education in Lebanon in Arabic, to ensure access to knowledge for male and female youth to sexual education. Please refer to activity identifier  LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21 Male and Female youth Lebanon is still considered a somewhat progressively conservative and religiously diverse society. Considering the sensitive nature of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in the region, there are very few accessible, thorough or holistic resources on the topic. SRHR is an imperative aspect of public health, psychological and personal health, and deeply impacts women and young girls, particularly those with less access to resources. This is two-fold. On one hand, lack of knowledge and access to SRHR exacerbates VAW and SGBV. Because there are very few resources about SRHR, women and young girls are more likely to be exposed to violence and sexual exploitation. On the other hand, lack of access to SRHR significantly increases health risks otherwise mitigated by knowledge and accessible services unwanted pregnancies, specifically HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). ABAAD sub-contracted MARSA as well-known local expert organizations on SRHR, to produce this interactive toolkit; In that vein, our partner adopted a participatory approach starting by conducted a KAP survey on SRHR in Lebanon. The objective of this ad hoc survey is the production of an interactive toolkit on sexual education and awareness for youth in Lebanon in the Arabic language. The contacts for the KAP survey were collected from more than 8 organizations working with boys and girls all across Lebanon (Akkar, Baalbek- Hermel, Beirut, Beqaa, Mount Lebanon, Nabatyeh, North, South), with a focus on marginalized communities, including camps and informal settlements and highlighted misconceptions of sexual health, especially in regards to starting-age of sexual activity, its potential risks, and the preventive methods that ought to be taken. Hence, the toolkit material was developed
Accreditation of GBV CM Training curriculum by Major Academic Institutions in Lebanon. Please refer to activity identifier  LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21 GBV case workers, social workers, medical social workers In late 2017, ABAAD has contacted several universities in Beirut regarding possible endorsement and use of the national GBV Case Management Curriculum in light of their involvement in the peer review process of the curriculum. The universities included: the University of Saint Joseph/Social Work School, Lebanese University/Faculty of Public Health, La Sagesse University, and the Lebanese American University/IWSAW) and they all expressed interest in the curriculum. Following thorough consideration of the different university curriculums, ABAAD planned to launch the accreditation process through the formation of a peer-review committee representing the different academic institutions. As part of the process, ABAAD has contacted these academic institutions in order to ensure that knowledge of a unified case management curriculum is mainstreamed across institutions and across new generations of front-liners, especially those graduating from faculties of social work. However, MOSA as lead on this curriculum, and to ensure that the use of the curriculum is standardized on a national scale, leaned more towards engagement with the Lebanese University which is Lebanon’s public university.. Knowing that such government procedures in Lebanon are highly centralized and bureaucratic, this would be a very lengthy process. Alternatively, a proposition was made by MOSA to possibly integrate the curriculum as part the courses under the Master Gender Studies at the Lebanese American University where amount can be invested in covering the expenses for a group of MOSA Social Workers to complete this course and become certified as trainers on the curriculum on national level and the on the National GBV SOP. This process will be led by MOSA following the launch of the curricula, which was delayed in its completion due to gap in cabinet formation,
Organize a national inter-disciplinary platform/event. Please refer to activity identifier  LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21 GBV sector Under the patronage of MoPH and in partnership with TABYEEN, ABAAD organized a national interdisciplinary conference on gender and MH, titled, “Mental Health and Social Safety: From the Clinic to the Civil Society Response”. Held on February 22nd, 2018, this conference served as an interactive platform in response to the needs of national and international organizations, experts in MH, and judicial actors to share and discuss successful experiences, challenges, and opportunities in the areas of family protection against violence in the clinical and field settings. It aimed to strengthen the multi-sectoral coordination between providers of GBV and MH services in Lebanon. Recommendations will contribute to the development of action plans for the implementation of the National Strategy for Mental Health (NSMH), issued by MoPH. Its outlines were divided into three segments: I- MH in international and regional discourse II- MH policies and regional and national social safety needs: Interventions and sharing experiences from national and international organizations III- Women’s protection from DV and social protection: between judicial and psycho-social interventions
Dissemination of the Guttmacher- Lancet Commission Report on SRHR in Lebanon-Please refer to activity identifier  LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21 In response to the need to develop a national policy report to support programming and policy recommendations to move forward with the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights agenda in Lebanon, Abaad, in partnership with Guttmacher-Lancet Commission are developing a Briefing Note to tackle this issue. The purpose of this Briefing Note is to initiate discussion among key stakeholders about the current situation of the sexual and reproductive health and rights in Lebanon and address local, regional, and international recommendations around the topic. In the first stage, Abaad conducted key informant interviews with key stakeholders to gather their input and suggestions regarding the nature, size and underlying factors of the issue and the proposed recommendations. Then, a national technical consultation meeting on the subject of “Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ Policies in Lebanon” took place on February 13th, 2020. Attendees included governmental bodies, including multiple ministries, UN agencies, international NGOs, local NGOs, and academic institutions. The Briefing Note will serve as the starting point for off-the-record deliberations involving those who will be included in or affected by decisions related to this topic, to spark insights about and generating action and a specific set of national recommendations on this pressing health challenge. The technical consultation results and the national recommendations (programmatic & policy) will be used as means to harmonize SRHR efforts in the country.
Naseej: Strengthening National Prevention, Protection and Response Mechanisms to GBV in Lebanon (Phase I) “Naseej” works on developing sustainable response structures to GBV prevention by means of enabling multi-sectoral governmental intervention strategies and engaging all major stakeholders in society, including ministries, local and national GBV service providers, UN Agencies, as well as NGOs responding to the Syrian Crisis. “Naseej” focuses on: - Engaging women and men from host and refugee communities in instilling concepts of non-violence, respect and partnership - Enabling skill-sharing between experts in different domains and front-liners working towards better response for survivors of violence - Working with decision-makers and legislators to strengthen forms of prevention of and protection from GBV What comprises “Naseej?” - equipping National inter-sectoral structures to respond to the GBV needs of women on the medium and long-term - enhancing gender-sensitive and quality media coverage on issues related to women in conflict/post conflict setups - Improving access to quality and inclusive services for women, men, and children survivors of, or at risk of GBV - Enhancing access for youth to knowledge and services platform to positively discuss sexual education, including SRHR, Clinical Management of Rape (CMR), and Child Marriage. “NASEEJ” is the translation of mechanisms in need of strengthening on both national and grassroots levels with the goal of ensuring social and protective structural cohesion, whilst simultaneously strengthening partnerships with stakeholders in the GBV sector prevention. “Naseej” aims to respond to structural gaps in the GBV sector prevention in order to ensure a better quality of life, free of violence, for all women and children in Lebanon. To this end, this project mainly aims to strengthen national prevention, empowerment and protection mechanisms, as well as inter-sectoral partnerships with the respective ministries (such as the Ministry of Social Affairs, MoSA, the Ministry of Public Health, MoPH, and the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, MoI), and other local and national organizations and bodies working in this domain in Lebanon.
Organizing four (4) national TOTs on the produced tool. Please refer to activity identifier  LB-MOI-497-DMFA-ABAAD19-21 GBV case and social workers Pursuant to the development of the GBVCM curriculum and the animated SOPs, ABAAD conducted 3 national ToT workshops on the use of the tool. Each of the capacity building workshops were held for 5 days starting February 2018; The first workshop was targeted 29 ABAAD frontline personnel including social workers and case workers as a pilot testing, to assess and validate consistency with planned objectives, to correct deviation from original plan, to enhance and improve quality of the curriculum, to troubleshoot potential gaps in knowledge and information delivery, to address specific needs of information by relevant audience, the second workshop was targeted 15 social workers at the Social Development Centers under the Ministry of Social Affairs, and the third workshop was targeted 15 from the Lebanese University’s Faculty of Public Health with the fourth year students of Medical Social-work Faculty. In total, 64 social workers, case managers, front line personnel, and care providers were targeted under this activity. The workshops aimed at building the capacities of the aforementioned personnel on GBV Case management and standardizing the case management system in the response programs using ABAAD GBV CM curriculum. The training was based on the developed curriculum in addition to the instructional video on GBV case management & SOP (using the video under the GBV SOP mobile app. The toolkits focused on the do(s) and don’t(s) in working with survivors and aimed at building local actors capacities in various steps of case management in addition to the conceptual framework and the SOPs.