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Agribusiness Enterprise Development
EMPFTECH ICT TOOLS FOR GHANA AND BEYOUND
Challenges Entered:
INNOVATION FOR ICT IN AGRICULTURE AND MOBILE APPLICATION FOR AGRICALTURAL MARKET PRICING AND PRODUCTS IN GHANA, ALBERT YEBOAH OBENG
At the core of the this project is using innovative yet very user friendly applications and methodologies in meeting the most pressing social,economic and gender challenges in Ghana and other African countries which have agriculture as their main stay of their economies and also for developing countries like Ghana who are also facing challenges of high unemployment among fresh graduates. Whiles the project do not have a regular full time funding we are confident that the individual contributions by the project staff and other supporting groups and the success rate of the project will attract financial and logistical partners to come to support or work with us jointly on this important important project.
Locations
Bonsu Clinic
Bonsu Bonsu Main
Nkoranza, BA BAGhana
CAFE
Suame Central Suame Main
Kumasi, AS ARGhana
Tema
Rotary Club Center Community One
Tema, GA GRGhana
Agribusiness Enterprise Development-Butaleja Adopted Village Model
Challenges Entered:
Market Access, Market intelligence gathering, community mobilization, collective storage, quality assurance & value chain management. Farmers through the District Farmers Forum,District Local Governemtn, Farmers & The Harris Group Consultant will interact to develop the value-chain. Through virtual Communities, there will be interactive learning to replicare whole models or model elements. Rockford Harris Group, is a group of young and innovative professionals mobilized through virtual communities to share information on community development. Using the internet through discusison forums we have mobilized professionals willing to grant part of their annual on our projects for community building. Butaleja is an "adopted village" as model. Rural communities in Uganda lack professionals services given their lack of communication services, poor road networks, no electricity, water and even health services are poor. These communities by nature are not attractive for business investments and therefore require public intervention or civil society intervention.Virtual Communities have proved low-cost, quick and effective in mobilizing professionals communities for community building. They have facilitative interactive learning and model replication and that is what Buteleja Project is about.
Location
Tororo
Uganda
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