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31 Dec
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 4 years to get that many views.
5 Dec
GIFT CERTIFICATION FOR TWAM-BLUEBONNET HILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH SPONSORED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT EQUIPMENT DONATION
KIRUCODO is please to inform you that the customs and shipment expenses for the skills development equipment donation from Tools With a Mission (TWAM) of UK has been paid for by Blue Bonnet Hills Christian Church of Austin Texas, USA. We sincerely thank the ENTIRE congregation of the above named church led by Pastor Dr. Landon Shultz. Further, we thank TWAM for donating all the equipment. We were informed that the container is already in Uganda and once it gets cleared at the customs then we shall have the equipment collected from TWAM warehouse here in Uganda ready for business. For your information, below is the Gift Certification from Tools With A Mission (TWAM)
| Tools with a Mission | |||||||||
| 2 Bailey Close Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate Ipswich IP2 0UD | |||||||||
| Tel +44 (0)1473 210220 Fax +44 (0)1473 210293 email: twamhq@twam.co.uk | |||||||||
| Company No. 5114575 Charity Number 1104903 | |||||||||
| GIFT CERTIFICATE | |||||||||
| Delivery Address: | Kikandwa Rural Communities | Date: | Aug-12 | ||||||
| 494 Kikandwa Village | |||||||||
| Kabembe Parish | |||||||||
| Kyampsi | |||||||||
| Mukono | |||||||||
| Contact: | Robert Kibaya | TWAM Order No: | 2012 | ||||||
| Email: | kruralcommunitiesdevorg@yahoo.com | 258 | K | ||||||
SHIPPING INVOICE/PACKING LIST/GIFT CERTIFICATE
| This is to certify that the goods detailed in the above packing list in this consignment | |||||
| are all a free gift from Tools With A Mission. There is no foreign currency exchange. | |||||
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David White Overseas Director |
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4 Nov
KIRUCODO RAIN WATER HARVESTING TANKS FOR RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS PROJECT IN NEED OF YOUR SUPPORT
KIRUCODO Rain Harvest Water tank for Primary schools
BE READY TO DONATE TO THIS PROJECT ON GLOBAL GIVING PLATFORM FROM NOVEMBER 26TH 2012 BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK http://globalgiving.org/projects/school-roofwater-storage-project-kikandwa-uganda
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22 Oct
GCARD and the need for foresight
The future of agriculture, the future of rural and global poverty, the future of food and nutrition security and the future of our natural resources, will depend on the decisions we are making today.
These decisions have not only to answer the urgent and burning issues we are currently facing, but have also to integrate the challenges of the future. Research, innovation and policies are expected to provide answers or solutions to current problems where they can.
15 Oct
The Road from GCARD1 to GCARD2, and beyond
The three main themes of The Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) are:
- Foresight for Impact- Matching research priorities to future development needs
- Partnerships for impact
- Capacity development for impact
The key elements emanate from the GCARD1 Roadmap which paved way for relevant and more responsive agricultural research for all development systems in the world. GCARD2 builds its foundation on it, looking at where we stand currently, how the changes they predicted/promised are happening and what impacts can be shown.
15 Oct
Social media strategy, a view from Spain
We are glad to host a post from Gemma Belen, who took part in the summer session of the UNITAR Social Media course. Gemma is Spanish and she works at the Provincial Energy Agency of Alicante (APE) as a communications specialist. In this article she explains how APE has found a great source of resources in social media to improve its communication strategy.
I love the content of this blog post and thank you for sharing. I have shared it to my respective social networks and I have also re-blogged it. Thank you UNITAR for extending this great training in web2.0 technologies to us. We really treasure much all the benefits we have so far touched, discovered and expecting. God bless you
12 Oct
GCARD2: The Focus on Foresight, Partnerships and Capacity Development
What will be discussed at GCARD2?
In 2010, major relevant stakeholders gathered at the First Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD1) to examine how agricultural research, knowledge and innovation could help in meeting national and international development needs.
Never before has there been such a high degree of global consensus and commitment to agriculture as a vehicle for achieving food security, poverty alleviation and economic growth particularly in developing countries. But the challenges are daunting in a global environment dominated by financial, food price, energy crises and by climate change.
GCARD Roadmap identified a series of transformative measures required to enhance the contribution of agricultural research and innovation towards development outcomes. These measures will focus on six key areas:
- Collective focus on key priorities as determined & shaped by science and society
- True and effective partnership between research and those it serves
- Increasing investments to meet the huge challenges ahead
- Enhancing capacities to generate, share and use agricultural knowledge for development
- Effective linkages that embed research in wider development processes and commitments
- Better demonstration of impacts and returns from agricultural innovation
The Second General Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) aims at designing the needed practical steps to be undertaken to realize the Roadmap outcomes and then identifying options and strategies of using these outcomes to better positively influence the lives of smallholders.
The conference is organized along three major themes with a specific focus on women and on meeting the needs of smallholders:
Theme 1: Foresight for impact – matching research priorities to future development needs
Matching research actions to desired development outcomes in a fast changing world requires anticipating needs in ways that take account of the diverse perspectives of different countries and sectors and the interaction of agricultural, nutritional/health, environmental and socio-economic development objectives.
Building a shared vision and purpose for Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) actions, from the outset, are essential requirements for achieving commitments and large scale impacts. Foresight discussions will consider how diverse perspectives can best be brought together in ways that combine projections, visioning and scenarios to identify and address key development issues and that value the perspectives of all, grounded in the realities facing communities and nations.
The outcomes are expected to establish collective actions for improved foresight and research planning at global, regional and national levels and identify mechanisms to develop and share skills and applications of forward thinking through initiatives such as the Global Foresight Hub and Regional Foresight Academies.
Theme 2: Partnerships for impact
This theme will elaborate the roles and actions needed by all partners along intended agricultural innovation pathways – as projected for the CGIAR Research Programs and other national, regional and international partnership actions – to achieve impacts at scale against each major development objective.
In different countries, major development objectives include national food security, household food and nutrition security, resilience to climate change, agro-ecosystem resilience, poverty reduction and even greater market returns. Actions to be undertaken to develop such partnerships for impacts include, processes for selecting partners, enabling processes for joint work, governance structures, collective purpose, and mechanisms for effective multi-stakeholder partnerships for research-for development impact.
The gaps and barriers to delivery will be identified for these intended pathways. Participants will explore practical ways by which they propose to address these gaps and barriers and their associated capacity and investment needs through collaborative programmes at national, regional and international scales.
The session around the “Partnership”-themes will identify learning and best practices from experiences so far, how these can be improved upon, and what actions are now required of each stakeholder group to increase the probability of rapid impact. GCARD2, given the participation and commitment of the relevant partners, provides a unique means of building collective purpose, common understanding and shared responsibilities along the pathways concerned.
Theme 3: Capacity development for impact
Stakeholders capacity development remains a major condition for achieving sustainable impacts in agriculture sector. This theme will focus on how to address the new capabilities and collective actions required across the AR4D continuum to be able to achieve impacts at scale.
At first this requires consideration of how to increase the investments and strengthen the needed networks. Secondly the institutional and individual skills required at all levels must be considered. Finally there is a need to take into account how knowledge can be most effectively shared to ensure rapid impacts at scale, and the specific challenges facing system disrupted by conflicts or crises.
Outcomes will be specific collective actions required to begin to address major capacity needs now and in the near future and anticipated changes to be achieved over the subsequent two years.
Refining system level outcomes, improving foresight and the associated prioritization of activities are also key areas for the plan. This will enable to put into action the CGIAR Strategy & Results Framework (SRF), as are expanding concepts of sustainable development beyond agricultural productivity alone. The SRF Action Plan will be developed over the next few months to address these key areas and public discussion in the GCARD2 will help shape the plan for best possible effect.
Taking forward the outcomes
Plenary and parallel thematic sessions on these three major themes will explore how to achieve impacts through collective actions at different levels and responding to expectations from all sectors.
Participants will examine the implications of the Action Plan of the CGIAR Consortium’s Strategy and Results Framework (SRF) in itself and for their own expected responsibilities. The GCARD2 will assess progress since GCARD1 and guide planning and define time-based benchmarks for future actions required towards the desired impacts. Institutions will be able to commit to both individual and collective actions, defining their intended outcomes by 2014 and beyond.
What is your opinion?
How can these three conference core themes be addressed in an integrated way to achieve greater impacts in Agricultural Research For Development?
This blogpost was written by Frejus Thoto and uploaded by Robert Kibaya, two GCARD Social Reporters. It is cross-published from GCARD Blog
7 Oct
SHIPMENT OF SCHOLASTIC MATERIALS FOR THREE RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS OF OVER 1500 PUPILS WAS COLLECTED FROM TWAM WAREHOUSE
A scholastic material donation for three school from Tools With A Mission (TWAM) has been delivered today from TWAM warehouse in Kampala to Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization (KIRUCODO) store in Kikandwa village ready for distribution this week. The shipment costs for this donation (http://wp.me/pHagH-Y) was met by Dr. Mike Roberts of UK and we are so grateful for his humanitarian heart. More updates regards the distribution of this donation will be posted on our blog soon http://www.ruralafricafacts.wordpress.com
By: Kikandwa Rural Communities Kirucodo
19 Sep
SEPTEMBER UPDATES FROM KIRUCODO’S BLUEBONNET HILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH-SPONSORED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
P.5 pupils for Kikandwa Church of Uganda Primary school during training
Since 2011, Bluebonnet Hills Christian Church of Austin Texas USA has been supporting the skills development training program of community people in and around Kikandwa villages.
In February 2012, skills development training services were also extended to primary pupils in Kikandwa Church of Uganda Primary School and currently two classes are participating as per the following list indicate.
KIRUCODO will soon setup three additional community skills development training centers within three identified community rural primary schools to serve pupils, teachers and community people especially school dropouts, women and unemployed youths.
The current training sponsorship from Bluebonnet Hills Christian Church will expire at the end of this month (September) and it is on this note that we call on your support to help cover the training expenses for the months of October and November. For each month, US$ 160 is needed to cover the trainer’s allowances and training materials of 25 participants.
If interested in supporting our skills development training programs, please feel free to contact us at kruralcommunitiesdevorg@yahoo.com
Lastly, below is a slideshow during the training of one of the primary classes.
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