Gulu University students community engagement .pdf
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Gulu University Students Community Engagement Projects
19th January 2016
A Presentation to MasterCard Foundation Staff
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Theme 1: Research Link to Community
NeedsCase 1: Prossy Nassanga, Case 2. Akidi Irene, Case3: Paul Rachkara,
Case4: Samuel Elolu
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Case 1: Working with community
to address malnutrition
Formula feedsA malnourished child,
Gulu Hospital
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Community Participation in
Product development
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The nutritionally improved
Millet-Sesame- Soy Composite
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Sensory Evaluation in the
Community
• 85 households/families reached (~510individuals impacted)
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Case 2: Improving the
marketing of local chicken
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Community attachment
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Participatory problem
identification & prioritization
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Community Training
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A road to a better Livelihood
• 80 households/families reached (~ 480 individuals impacted)
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Case3: Marketing of sweet potato
vines
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Prolonged dry Season: A factor affecting
availability of sweet potato planting materials
The Problem
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Sweet Potato Vines: A business
opportunity
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Packaging sweet potato Vines for the market
Big Bundle Small Bundle
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Supporting sweet potato Vines
business development
• 70households/familiesreached (~420individuals impacted)
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Case 4: Improving the
Nutritional Quality Of cassava
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Community Nutrition
• Understanding the community nutritional practices,
circumstances
• School feeding a challenge
• Working with the community to improve the
nutritional quality of a local staple food-Cassava
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The Intervention
• Local protein rich foods to improve nutritional
quality of Cassava meal/Gari
• Soybeans & Silver fish
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Community Participation
• Together developing a method optimised for local
application
• Using local experiences, foods & materials
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What has been achieved?
Nutritional profile analysis of the fortified product
Sensory &keeping quality evaluations on-going
Rationale
Community has potential to support school feeding programmes cheaply
Better Nutrition, health & Educational achievement
Incentive for smallholder farmers to produce more
• 240 households/families reached (~1440 individuals impacted)
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Theme 2:Graduate Entrepreneurship Training
Translating community problems into business opportunities
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Case 1:Bridging the gap in kuroiler
production
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Business Development
• Business Idea
generation from
the community
• Group formation
• Business Plan
Development
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Business Development
• Business plan
Presentation
• Approval
• Loan from the
Faculty
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Management
• Team of 3 with roles divided
• Routine activities jointly Conducted
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What has been done?
• Started in November, 2015
• Stocked 600 day old chicks
• 32 chicks died (5% mortality)
• Sold 351 to date @6,000 UGX/bird
• Gross revenue 2.1m UGX to-date
• Monthly repayment installment-
350,000UGX
• 65 households/families reached (390 individuals impacted)
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Case 2: Orange Fleshed Sweet
Potato Flour for Cookie Business
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The Business idea
• University intervention to
promote OFSP
• Student Enterprise Loan Scheme
• Baking for leisure
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Implementation
Recipe tasting
Perfecting our baking skills
cakes
cookies
daddies
bread
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Baking
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What has been done…….• Total investment-6,000,000
UGX
• Cookies- 360 units to-date at
1000 Ugx@
• “Daddies”- 480 units to-date at
500Ugx@
• Current revenues-
600,000Ugx/month
• Contract arrangement with
faculties=720,000Ugx/month
• Payback amount=
168,000Ugx/month
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Entry into the market and beyond
• We are getting intothe market
• On average weengage with 10distributors
• 5 input providers
• (15 families directlyreached, 90individuals directlyimpacted)
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Over all Impact
• We are proudRUFORUMsupported students
• We have impacted3330 lives in thegreater Gulu area
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Motivation
The course gave us an opportunity for
self discovery through writing business
plans and implementation
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Appreciation
Thank you for
Listening as we
strive for
Community
Transformation