Wako Gutu Foundation

(WGF)

Project Launching
Workshop

For

Mobile-Phone Enabled Agricultural

Livelihoods & Health Extension for
Agro-pastoralists Life
Transformation in Hinterlands
(MEAL & HEALTH) project
Bale Zone, Gurra
Dhamole & Gindhir
Districs
(Pastoralist and Agro -pastoral ist areas of
Oromia)

January 2017

Addis Ababa -Ethiopia

 About Wako Gutu Foundation
(WGF)
 Wako Gutu Foundation (WGF) is an Ethiopian
development organisation founded by network of
volunteers who wanted to bring enduring change to the
livelihood of pastoralists and agro-pastoralist communities
in the remote areas of the country.
 The organisation was established as a local NGO in 2006 in
memory of General Wako Gutu, “an Ethiopian pastoralist
elder and a peace and justice activist” who in addition got
also engaged in development activities
 Cont.
 Accordingly, WGF is registered under the Ethiopian CSA Act
as a national resident CSO (with registration certificate 0457
pursuant to the Charities and Societies Proclamation number
621/2009) and it is supervised by a board of director following
the legal requirement for memorial foundation in Ethiopia.

 WGF is a member of the Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia, Poverty

Action Network in Ethiopia, Non-State Actors Coalition,
Ethiopian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives, and
Zonal and District Disaster and Early Warning Committee.
 Cont.
 The organisation has made programmatic positioning in the
pastoralist areas of Oromia and Somali National Regional
States particularly in Bale zone areas namely Dallo Mana,
Madda Wallabu, etc.
 WGF successfully accomplished various projects ranging
from small to large on livelihoods, humanitarian and
emergency, water supply, sanitation and hygiene, gender
empowerment, social accountability, agriculture and
irrigation, natural resource management and conservation,
and more to list.
 Cont.
Vision: WGF is committed to see socio-economic
advancement of poor pastoralist communities and further
realization of the strong mutual cooperation of
neighboring communities with similar life style.
Mission: The mission of WGF is to facilitate social and
economic empowerment of the poor and marginalized
communities through the implementation of integrated,
sustainable and pro-poor projects in the remotest and inaccessible
pastoral/agro-pastoralist areas.
Mobile-Phone Enabled Agricultural Livelihoods
& Health Extension for Agro-pastoralists Life
Transformation in Hinterlands (MEAL &
HEALTH) Project
• The project is to be implemented in the Gindhir and
Gura Dhamole districts of the Bale Zone, Oromia
National Regional State

• The project has a total budget of ---------birr for the tw

districts
 Cont.
• The project is intended to impact 11, 667 direct
beneficiary households and 156,000 indirect households
from neighboring districts of Guji, Borena, Arsi, Harari
Regional state, DireDawa City Administration, etc.

• The project will last for five years starting from 01

December 2017 and ends on 30 November 2022

• The project assumes 35% of each of the beneficiary

individuals at each activity level will be female/women
 Project Objectives
The overall objective of the MEAL and HEALTH
Project is to improve the pastoralists and agro-
pastoralists of agricultural extension and
livelihoods in Gurra Dhamole and Gindhir districts
of Bale zone, Oromia National Regional State.
 Cont.
The specific objectives of this project are:
1. To familiarize the use of Mobile Agricultural
Extension Services by 60% for 11,700 (2,340
• women) targeted households at the end of 2022.
1. To adopt 3 innovative agricultural production
methods for 2,340 farmers (546 women) pastoralist
and agro pastoralist communities by the end of the
project period 2022.
 Cont.
1. To reduce food gap of at least 7,020 households (2,340
female) pastoralist and agro pastoralist communities in
Gurra Dhamole and Gindhir districts from 7 months to 3
months at the end of 2022.
2. To raise income of 3,900 households (2,340 women)
pastoralist and agro pastoralist communities from x% to
Y% by the end of 2022.
 Project Strategies
WGF follows the following strategies on the
course of implementation

A participatory approach that promotes and

stimulates beneficiary involvement from
planning to execution.
 Cont.
This is accomplished through hired staffs at the two
project districts and effective monitoring actions
that in turn facilitates to ascertain value for money
(cost effectiveness and cost efficiency).
Gender empowerment, and capacity development
will be integrated as a cross-cutting issues at each
level of this project management (planning to
execution-evaluation)
 Project Components
Component 1 (-------birr): Project Start-up Activities

which encompasses the activities like launching

workshops, experience sharing visits, etc.
Component 2 (------birr):Development of Agricultural Extension
Services

This sub-component includes:

generation (extraction of agricultural cycle) major and

sub activities, localization of generated contents;
 Cont.
customization (modification to area context); translation
(changing to local languages) of content; curating (uploading)
of the content to server; dissemination (pushing the
information to users) of developed content, TOT for
agriculture and health extension agents, train community
leaders on agricultural and health extension system
Component 3 (-------birr) Maternal and Child Health (MCH)

which includes generation (extraction of agricultural

cycle) major and sub activities,
 Cont.
localization of generated contents; customization (modification to
area context); translation (changing to local languages) of content;
curating (uploading) of the content to server; dissemination (pushing the
information to users) of developed content

Component 4 (---birr) Information and Communication

Development
This sub-component involves: information and Development (content of
mobile technology categories), Generator and Cooling funs, and Digital
Classroom System (DCS)/ Digisoft Education
 Cont.
Component 5 (------birr): Contracting Airtime which includes:
airtime payment for disseminations of 21 agricultural cycle and
14 reproductive health information by using server PULL for
25,000 minutes, Airtime payment for disseminations of 21
agricultural cycle and 14 reproductive health information by
using server PUSH

Component 6 (-----birr):awareness and Community

Mobilization which includes: publicize and awareness creation
using TV, Radio and mobile van video broadcasting (roadsides,
towns village shows), and Video Edutainment Van
 Cont.
Component 7 (-----birr): improvement of food security in Arid
and Semiarid areas which comprises of the following
activities:
Training of HHs on soil and water conservation
management, support model HHs with early maturing and
drought tolerant crops, train and provide HHs (drought
resistant sorghum and soybean), introduction and
demonstration of model farmers on drought-tolerant
amaranth,
 Cont.
establish fruit nurseries groups, training of HHs on vegetable
production, train young pastoralists on beekeeping, establish
and support irrigation users & provide them with water
pumps, train model farmers on nutrition & food preparation,
promote and train farmers on animal forage production,
distribution of improved feed seeds for HHs, train & equip
voluntary animal health workers on basic animal health,
recovery of cows and goats for HHs, and construction of
reservoirs for the drinking water supply of farm animals
 Project Procurement (----birr)
• The project will procure some equipment and
supplies that are intended to serve the
implementation such as vehicles (2), motor cycles
(6), Laptops (7), desktops(6) and printers(2), Video
camera(2) & set of Audio visual (1), tables (10),
chairs (16), shelves (5) and guest chairs (5),
generator (1)
 Baseline, Monitoring and Evaluation (----
birr)
• The project will start with baseline survey during the first
quarter of its implementation (in year 1/2018), and
expected to undertake periodic monitoring actions

• The project conducts mid-term evaluation in the middle

course of implementation

• The project also conducts end-line evaluation

immediately after the project terminates

• Bi-annual audit will be regularly conducted

 Project Human Resource
• The project will employ appropriate staffs for the
implementation of this project.

• Thus WGF hires pastoralist livelihood manager,

monitoring and evaluation officer, and ICT expert at head
office, agriculture extension (2), health extension expert
(2) at headquarter

• The project further hires project coordinators(2),

agronomists(2), veterinarians (2), office assistants (2)
 Project Coordination
WGF in collaboration with relevant government offices
and target communities will implement the project.
Programmatically the project is directly managed under
WGF head office. Project offices will be established at
Jibri and Gindhir towns, and respective staffs will be
hired to engage in full time implementation of the
project. Accordingly, WGF head office in Finfine will
provide technical and resource support.
 Cont.
The Executive Director will give overall leadership, whereas the
pastoralist livelihood manager will be responsible to provide
program related backstopping which include monitoring of timely
implementation of planned activities, tracking effect chain and
impact maps so that the project will be an outcome and impact
oriented. WGF finance section will deal with financial matters-
releases work advances up on approval of the Director; check the
reliability of receipts, and settle the financial accounts; ensure
proper documentation of all financial transaction of the project.
 Cont.
• The project staff comprising of agronomist, veterinarian,
agricultural extension and health extension workers guided
by respective project coordinators will be responsible for
coordinating the implementation of project activities;
mobilize the community for participation in planning and
implementation, identify the right holders/beneficiaries,
monitor proper utilization of project resources, supervise
the quality of project outputs, and settle in case there are
any disputes among the community related to the project.
 Contact details
Address:
Wako Gutu Foundation (WGF) Lagahar area in front of Yiha City Centre
between Ambassador Garment and Shebelle fashion
P.O. Box 11821, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel. (+251) 0115318049
E mail: wakogutufound@yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.wakogutufoundation.org
Contact Person: Abdi Edao
Position: Executive Director
Tell. +251 911043027 (mobile)
Tell. (+251) 0115318049 (office)