YOUTH & SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MOVEMENT
Despite the extensive efforts being undertaken today to address the world’s pressing issues of sustainable development, it is clear that tomorrow’s leaders will be left with a legacy of huge challenges around preserving the environment and social cohesion. If we are to become a more sustainable society, our economic model will need to shift from being a growth and consumption model driven by excess and desire to one of sufficiency driven by need.
These interventions aim at equipping youth and poor households in hard to reach communities adjacent to protected areas with livelihood skills through provision of information, resources and vocational skills to overcome the aforementioned challenges. The youth and poor households need income generating activities (IGAs) so as to generate their own cash and be able to provide basic needs for their families. To achieve this, households and youth are involved in micro-finance models for the poor and agro-enterprise program.
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Vocational training mainly salon and hair dressing, carpentry, tailoring and tie&dye, welding and cookery
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Participatory market analysis and food security model.
These innovative models are arranged in phases that systematically consider social and environmental concerns alongside technological, commercial and enterprise selection planning and development.
The youth and rural households are engaged in production of cabbages, onions, tomatoes, beans, yams, ground nuts, millet, peas, maize, tea, coffee and cocoa. Families are further involved in group projects such as apiary, chicken rearing/poultry, piggery and goat rearing, commercial timber production and tree planting, tie & dye, crafts and beads production.
The role of FIPA is that of quality assurance, organize and empower farmers through provision of correct and accurate information at different stages of production. With new mobile phone technologies farmers can access cheap information services about farming practices, disease or vector control, market and prices of different products. FIPA works with farmers to ensure accessibility and availability of safe storage and transport facilities and value addition of farmer produce by designing affordable and feasible mechanism that work in various geographical areas.