Remote training of trainers of 3 grass roots organizations to integrate game-based entrepreneurship training into their activities.
Projects
Project
Zimbabwe
2021
Challenge
How to integrate the business perspective into an existing agronomy curriculum?
Project
Kucheza and Seed4Farmers work together to train a group of trainers from three local collaborating initiatives in Zimbabwe, so that they in turn can train small farmers to start treating their farm like a business. The three initiatives, Hamara Business School & Outgrowers Project, Africa Alive and TMG all work with smallholder farmers, yet with slightly different profiles.
The training of trainers was done fully remotely by the Kucheza team, with support of local trainers of Ebenezer Agricultural Training Centre. Using a combination of game play, video’s, online and offline exercises and role play, we were able to deliver a participative, engaging training.
Impact
Together Hamara Business School & Outgrowers Project, Africa Alive and TMG have an outreach of 20,000 farmers that will be introduced to the Kucheza game-based learning approach.
Partners
Project
Kenya
2019 - 2020
Enabling Village Service Providers to provide financial business coaching to farmers.
Challenge
How to supply Village Service Providers with financial knowledge and skills to add value for their smallholder clients?
Project
In the Seed2Feed project, 30 Village Service Providers have been recruited to provide services to and increase financial literacy among smallholder farmers. This will ultimately lead to increased creditworthiness of smallholders. We trained 30 village service providers and 40 farmers in different places with a focus on tomatoes and coffee.
Impact
Village Service Providers train smallholder farmers and supply them with agricultural and financial services.
Project
KwaZulu-Natal
2019 - 2020
Founding a New Generation Cooperative that teaches rural youth in agripreneurship and enables them to start their own farm.
Challenge
How to give school drop-outs the opportunity to make a living from farming?
Project
Kucheza is training school drop-outs in KwaZulu-Natal in agripreneurship. Kucheza is in the process of founding a new generation cooperative to supply young agripreneurs with the possibility to start up their own farm and collaborate with peers and others.
Project
Zimbabwe
2019
Improving business skills amongst the 120 apprentices of Ebenezer Training Farm.
Challenge
How do you provide students with entrepreneurial skills and views to make their farm profitable?
Project
Kucheza trained the trainers of Ebenezer and implemented the Kucheza method into the Ebenezer curriculum. Kucheza used a special version of Farming Forward customized for Ebenezer.
Impact
10 trainers at Ebenezer use the Kucheza method on a daily basis with 120 students annually.
Interview with the town’s chief
A contest amongst the trainers was won by Thamu. Thamu was awarded with a role in Farming Forward. He chose to be the Towns Chief. See the interview with Thamu what it is like to be the towns chief in the game.
Partners
Project
Burkina Faso
2018 - 2019
Strengthening the management of two cooperatives in Burkina Faso
Challenge
How can cooperative managers strengthen the resilience of their members and let them increase their income?
Project
The drops4crops project in Burkina Faso and Benin has its focus on watermanagement, entrepreneurship and adding value to the onion value chain. Kucheza provided training in record keeping, cash flow, calculating profit and loss, entrepreneurial finance, costing, business planning and cooperative business development at cooperative level. Kucheza trained 30 managers of two cooperatives.
Impact
The cooperatives are better supporting their members with the game, which is used for training and informed decision making. Together the cooperatives represent more than 20,000 farmers.
