Success Stories
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Program Goal/Need
USAID MARKETS will expand economic opportunities in the Nigerian agricultural sector by increasing agricultural productivity, enhancing value-added processing, and increasing commercialization through private-sector led growth and development.
Program Description
Making Cents International developed an innovative agriculture enterprise development curriculum and training-of-trainers (TOT) course that engages small-scale producers and processors as well as input suppliers on how to take a more commercially oriented approach to their activities. Making Cents also provided enterprise development skills training to partner organizations working with caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) under the USAID PEPFAR Family Nutritional Support Program (FNSP). Making Cents built the capacity of implementing partners across four states by imparting a series of training of trainer (TOT) workshops. A component of this training includes homestead farming - looking at the home-based farm as an income generating activity and/or a source of daily nutritional value. Under MARKETS, Making Cents also played a key role in the design and development of a food security nutrition pilot program supporting women from vulnerable communities in target states in northern Nigeria. The program takes an integrated approach to health and nutrition training by integrating key lessons in nutrition, household asset management, cost-benefit analysis, and entrepreneurship.
Program Results
Results:
• Developed two curricula that meet the specific capacity needs of small-scale farmers and input suppliers in Nigeria.
• Trained 500 trainers to deliver the Nigerian Agriculture Enterprise Curriculum to 250,000 farmers in Nigeria. • Developed Homestead Gardening modules and Homestead Package of Practices manual.
• Trained over 100 trainers in the Making Cents MicroEnterprise Fundamentals (MEF) curriculum serving caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) across 12 states including Kano, Bauchi, Cross-River, Lagos, FCT, Imo, Jos, Benue, Kaduna, Edo, Nasarawa, and Uyo.
• Trained over 24,000 caregivers in income generation skills to reach over 100,000 OVCs in Nigeria.
• Designed a pilot training program that reached over 4,000 women in five months.
