When farmer Bultu Etefa was told that she must look after her cattle and the family while maintaining natural resources, she did something interesting: she joined the training delivered at wereda level on fodder production. Now she is among a group of smallholder farmers behind various efforts under Humidtropics to improve livestock feeds. She said, “Fodder is useful to the women who control over the use and sell of milk products in the community. It brings significant changes in both quality and quantity of milk. I sell butter myself and use the money for whatever purpose on my … [Read more...]
Finding Common Development Goals in Nicaragua
With the objective of gaining a deeper understanding of the current activities and future directions of organizations working in the Nicanorte Action Site within the Central America and the Caribbean Flagship Project, Humidtropics has finalized its Nicanorte Organizational Analysis. The analysis was conducted with 20 organizations including national civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), farmer organizations, universities and university research institutes, and the public and private sectors. Aside from assisting in the Program's regional strategic and … [Read more...]
Piloting Results-Based Management for Humidtropics
Humidtropics is holding a 3-day Results-Based Management Workshop for Monitoring & Evaluation experts at IITA in Ibadan, Nigeria, from February 25  to 27, 2014. The key outputs will deal with enhancing readiness for managing by results, monitoring and evaluation for results. Workshop participants will take part in the development of indicator matrices, targets, metrics and means of verification to track, evaluate and report on Humidtropics’ progress towards its six Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs) on Income, Nutrition, Productivity, Environment, Gender and Innovation. The … [Read more...]