In July this year, Spark Microgrants launched series of training and awareness meetings aiming at equipping Sector officials, Social Economic Development Officers (SEDOs), and Community Based Facilitators (CBFs) with skills and tools to guide the facilitation of community meetings under the Advancing Citizen Engagement Project-ACE Project.
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
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Despite the much-hyped efforts of government in improving agriculture, the national goal of reducing hunger and malnutrition is still a mirage. This is largely due to the growing population, pressure on available resources, lack of a robust mechanized farming system, and inadequate capacity building plans for farmers, among others.
These factors have actually brought to fore the importance of private sector involvement in agriculture, as the government has realised that truly, the sector cannot continue to survive without interventions to support farmers and of course, the need to expand the sector due to the consequence of reliance on mono-sectoral economy.