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Future goals and plans of ACFO.
Describe the ACFO’s future goals and plans.
Agriculture food production increased and sustained, environmental protection committee among students formed, peace and climate justice clubs in schools formed, health and hygiene campaign promoters established in institutions of learning.
Students leadership skills training conducted as this will enhance the ability of children and youths to think constructively on critical issues facing the community thus ensures sustainability, ownership of the projects.
350 vulnerable children and youth group within the 67 institution of learning (5 people per group) to start group MSEs instead of undertaking individual initiatives, year one 125 young girls.
Business Development Skills (BDS) and technical vocational and agriculture production training delivered to 2,500 youth and women to improve their business skills and technical production knowhow. These will be short term trainings that will last 6-8 weeks not necessarily full time to accommodate young women and boys with domestic tasks.
Market linkages established between youth led MSEs and markets at national and regional level through medium and large enterprises as off takers.
Explain how ACFO plans to expand or improve its programs and services
In order to achieve the objectives and realize the impact or harvest outcomes, ACFO employs a number of strategies which among others includes: facilitating skills training for targeted project beneficiaries, conducting regular actor mapping to identify other service providers within the project locations, (who is doing what, where, how is it being done) this will enable the project to link up beneficiaries with other potential actors within the county and state levels.
The organization will further build synergies with other actors at Payam, county, state, and national levels who will include CBO’s NGO’s NNGOUN Agencies, National and State Governments. ACFO will further work with relevant state ministries such as the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Youths and Sports, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Gender Child and Social Welfare as well as organized bodies of persons with special needs. Targeted marketing strategies for produce from beneficiaries will also be employed, these will include: market surveys identify potential buyers, risk and opportunities and competitors.
The project activities and products shall be advertised on local radios through the use of public service announcements (PSA), and televisions, local promotions inform of display of products in public places special days shall be designated for these events with the advancement in technology in the formation of cooperative union and other sectors. Through the support of the organization shall link beneficiaries to access outside market and share knowledge of their production units by creating a platform for product advertisement.
Discuss any potential challenges or obstacles ACFO may face in achieving these goals.
Insecurity associated with seasonal movements of pastoralists and irregular movements of armed groups can greatly affect the project implementation timeframe.
Since Central Equatoria falls within the tropic Equatorial rain forest, ACFO normally faces a lot of challenges during heavy rains between the months of June – October, this disrupts the normal program schedule as well as movement of Staff, beneficiaries and other stakeholders to participate in the project.
Due to climatic changes, other production activities normally incur poor harvest, this is coupled with attack from pest and diseases. Currently other States are still experiencing violence, that is farmers – pastoralist conflict, we project that if similar incident persists in the future during the project implementation, this will continue to interfere with the participation of targeted project beneficiaries because they would have been displaced, social amenities destroyed and economic activities brought to stand still.
Delaying access to local government officials and constitutional post holders to plan and structure project activities; this in most cases affects the project implementation schedule. Sometimes there will be larger turn up of interested participants during project activities implementation which normally affects the already approved budge lines.
The censorship of the work of NGOs and Civil Society organizations by seeking approvals from the security services in order to conduct activities will delay activities implementation as this process takes time.
Economically, South Sudan is facing price inflation with uncertainty about fixed market prices of basic consumer goods. If this condition persists, will affect the expenditure against approved budget.
Internally, in a situation of sickness of a human resource personal, this normally affects project implementation in terms of delay or brought to stand still, the bureaucracy in logistics procedures sometimes delays the project implementation.