UNYFA SWOT ANALYSIS REPORT · 3 UNYFA Co-ordination Office foreWard I am pleased to present to you the SWOT report on the suitability and practicability in the formulation of a young

NOV 2016

UNYFA SWOTANALYSIS REPORT

report for SWot analySiS (Suitability of eStabliShing a young

farmerS’S aSSociation) held With StakeholderS at unffe headquarterS

on 25th and 26th may 2016

Prepared by:UNYFANational Coordination Office

Facilitated by:Andreas Hermes Academy,

(AHA) Germany

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Table of Contents

1.0. Background .......................................................................................................5

UNYFA/UNFFE and AHA partnership Project. .............................................7

2.0. Purpose for the SWOT Workshop: ..........................................................8

2.1. Objectives of this Workshop .................................................................................. 8

3.0. Participants/ stakeholders for the SWOT analysis .........................9

4.0 SWOT ANALYSIS exercise ..........................................................................10

4.1 Areas of development for UNYFA .........................................................................11

4.2 Professionalization. .....................................................................................................12

4.3. Advocacy.........................................................................................................................15

4.4 Networking ....................................................................................................................18

4.5. Education and training .............................................................................................20

4.6. Services ..........................................................................................................................23

5.0 SYNTHESIS of FINDINGS ...........................................................................26

5.1 ProfessionaliSATION ...................................................................................26

5.3 NETWORKING ...............................................................................................................34

5.4 SERVICES ........................................................................................................................37

5.5 Education/ Trainings ...................................................................................41

6.0 RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................................45

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UNYFA Co-ordination Office

foreWard

I am pleased to present to you the SWOT report on the suitability and practicability in the formulation of a young farmers association within the existing structures of the biggest apex body of farmers, UNFFE (Uganda National Farmers Federation).

Youth are not a homogeneous group, therefore as we engage in the agriculture sector where we want them to get involved, we need to know them (who they are), have them involved and act or implement with them. Often times, we relax or even leave others who even don’t know our issues to speak or act on our behalf. But let me tell all the youth and even other stakeholders;

‘’If you don’t want people who have no clue about your business to make decisions for you; you need to get involved now and then, because if you take no action, someone else will do it for you’’

UNYFA (Uganda National Young Farmers Association) is taking root as the umbrella body for youth in all UNFFE structures. This SWOT report highlights how and why it is possible. We thank our lead facilitators; Dr. Andrea Teutenberg, Mr. Heinrich Lendebur from AHA International and Mr. Martin Baumgartner from the Young Farmers of Bavaria (Germany).

I hope this update (SWOT Report) will inform us all on how suitable it is to establish UNYFA for all the Ugandan Agro-based youth.

Denis Kabiito UNYFA, National Coordinator.

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UGANDA NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS’ ASSOCIATION (UNYFA)UGANDA NATIONAL FARMERS FEDERATION (UNFFE) AND ANDREAS HERMES ACADEMIE (AHA)/ DBV PARTNERSHIP PROJECT

1.0. background

Uganda has a population of approximately 34.9 million. With every Ugandan woman on average producing 6 children throughout her reproductive period, the country presents a scenario of the youngest and most rapidly growing of today’s world (World Bank, 2011). Close to half (48.7 percent) of Uganda’s population constitutes majority of the dependent population (under 15 years). Compared to the region’s under 15 years population (43.2 percent) and the world’s under 15 years population (26.8 percent), Uganda’s young population is evidently higher. The high fertility rate, the young and youthful population and the elderly present a developmental challenge which is the dependency burden where few people have to provide for a huge population which is not employed. Uganda’s population continues to grow currently at rate of 3.2 percent and is way higher than the region’s average population growth1

If Uganda is to realize development, the youths need to be involved in development programs so as to

1 The State of Uganda Population Report 2014

reduce the dependency syndrome and to transform the youth groups into a productive force. In many of our farmer groups or farmers based organizations, it has been realized that youth are sometimes integrated in their activities but have peculiar interests that may need particular attention in their development processes. With that in mind there is need to provide a platform for these youth where they can express their particular interests and forge a way forward. The advantage of this is that youth have the propensity to move with the changing dynamics of the world and are capable of formulating or becoming strong leaders of farmer based organization’s in the near future.

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unyfa/unffe and aha partnerShip project.

In its project, AHA / DBV focus on strengthening of Farmer Organizations in developing countries. AHA, with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has only recently started their activity in Uganda. The Akademie supports its partners by offering an exchange with German association experts, holding workshops and training courses and supporting targeted organisational development. Dialogue is held with potential partner organisations to establish concrete requirements. Development measures are chosen to suit individual needs. The focus is always on empowering the organisation to develop and implement targeted solutions on its own.

UNFFE has already a strong presence and history in Uganda as the leading apex farmer organization and also represents the interests of young farmers in Uganda. To particularly improve service for agro-based youth from the age of 12 to 39 it is intended to form a specific farmer organization for youth, UNYFA, under the umbrella of UNFFE.The Uganda National Young Farmers Association (UNYFA) is an entity being started with intentions of improving the livelihoods of youth initially in Uganda and progresively build a vibrant team of young farmers to fit into the national farmers’ federation.

2.0. purpoSe for the SWot WorkShop:

With that background about the project, UNYFA through UNFFE organized the SWOT analysis workshop being one of the preliminary activities for the

partnership. The purpose of this Workshop was to identify positive and negative factors within UNYFA/ UNFFE, the Ugandan youth communities, and the broader society that will promote or inhibit successful formulation and organization of this youth platform. The SWOT analysis contained was to establish the existing organizational and institutional capacity of UNYFA/UNFFE. It also assesses the external environment that will impact on the formulated youth association in its interventions.

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2.1. Objectives of this Workshop

1. To establish benchmarks of UNYFA/UNFFE project that will be used in the Monitoring and evaluation of UNYFA as an organization.

2. To share experiences from various stakeholders on their successes, challenges and concerns with Ugandan youth in the agriculture sector.

3. To initiate the process of social change by providing recommendations that will help in strategic planning for UNYFA.

4. To jointly forge a way forward on how we can synergize as different stakeholders involved in youth livelihood initiatives.

3.0. participantS/ StakeholderS for the SWot analySiS

The workshop had the following participants; UNYFA core team, UNFFE executives, youth leader representatives from agriculture groups in District farmers

associations(DFAs), MAAIF2, Development partners involved in youth livelihoods projects, and international Agri-agencies like CURAD, AGRITERRA, CARITAS, young farmers coalition (YOFACO), TRIAS, WE-EFFECT, agency for transformation(AFT),a representative from Germany young farmers association (BDL) and was facilitated by AHA International of Germany.

2 Ministry of Agriculture, Animal In-dustry and Fisheries.

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4.0 SWot analySiS exerciSe

The UNYFA coordinator shared with the participants the background of UNYFA in a power point presentation where he informed all the participants how this idea of forming a national young farmers body evolved, the vision, mission and its objectives, the partners and funding wing. He stressed that, The organization is to target youth from the age of 12-39 years (as defined by the world farmers’ organization constitution and Ugandan constitution as amended 2005). These are in three categories namely; Agro-based youth, those out of school and in tertiary institutions.

The initial target is for all those youth under the UNFFE structures of the 98 member associations including 78 district farmers associations and 20 agro-business organizations

and agro-based service providers. The importance of bringing rural youth together is therefore to:

↘ Bring out the voice of the youth and their interests

↘ Build young leaders ↘ Synergy and relationships. ↘ Keep traditions and

rural areas active.

Lastly, he brought out some of the roles a young farmer association can do for its members being;

↘ Education ↘ Networking ↘ Fun ↘ Bringing out culture and traditions ↘ Involving ↘ Networking and relationships ↘ Creativity and innovation.

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4.1 Areas of development for UNYFA

The coordinator informed participants

that UNYFA is here to strengthen the

existing youth structures within UNFFE and broaden youth representation at every level i.e. national, region, and district, sub-county and parish level.

He highlighted the areas of development for UNYFA as follows;

↘ Professionalization ↘ Advocacy ↘ Services ↘ Education and training ↘ Networking

4.2 Professionalization.

Professionalization, also called credentialism, is the social process by which any trade or occupation transforms itself into a true “profession of the highest integrity and competence.3 In that sense therefore, as we build the non-existent apex body for youth under the UNFFE structures, we need to establish good structures across all levels. The session was chaired by AHA lead trainer, Dr. Andrea Teutenberg. In the workshop participants looked at professionalization of UNYFA in the following dimensions;

1. Creating formal organizational structures that have clear goals that are achievable.

2. Representing farmers’ interests with their mandates.3. Strong structures across all levels4. Competent leader with social skills that are representative of the rest.5. Clear structure of both management and board.6. Doing things effectively and rightly7. Adequate services/ personnel8. Quality9. Turning farming into a career through education and training.10. Changing attitude of youth towards agriculture.3 wikipedia

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The major three areas coming out of the above are summarized into three major issues;

* Structure of the organization

* Skills of the employees and leaders of UNYFA

* Processes

The SWOT analysis under Professionalization of UNYFA is summarized as follows:

STRENGTH WEAKNESS

* Big Membership of Youth under UNFFE structures.

* Presence of youth leaders at the grass roots.

* Presence of established cooperatives and other farmer organizations.

* Experience within UNFFE

* Will from UNFFE leaders, and other organizations to have a youth structure in place.

* Existing weak youth structures, most cases fragmented.

* Poor flow of information along UNFFE structures.

* Senior leaders pre-dominate the leadership roles at the district level.

* Low competence levels among the youth.

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OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

* Presence of youth leaders nationally.

* Collaboration with other agencies

* Big youth population in Uganda ( 77% below 30 years of Age)1

* Existing youth policies in livelihood and agriculture.

* Boom in ICT advancement(social media)

* Ability to create UNYFA uniqueness.

* Big number of financial sources for youth.

* Influence of old over the young is a threat in terms of decision making.

* Youth have high expectations

* Duplication of activities/services from similar organizations

* Lack of sustainable funding mechanisms.

* Competition from other players in the youth sector/ and or duplication.

* Old UNFFE structures that may be a stumbling block for this ( competition in DFAs, NEC etc)

4.3. Advocacy

The group was led and facilitated by Mr. Heinrich Ledebur of AHA International; he opened up the discussion by allowing members to brainstorm on what is meant by advocacy. Members reiterated by giving the following response: Advocacy begins with an issue, then push for solving it through mapping out who are the right people, resource or organization to solve it. Speak out for issues, where is it coming from and what is the desired changes for instance influencing policy so that there is a desired change. One of the members shared her experience and informed

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participants in the group that for easing advocacy in rural communities, they use Farmers Advocacy Consultation Tool. FACT. This approach is based on four pillars: (1) consultations; (2) participatory research (data gathering and analysis with advice of experts); (3) writing SMART proposals; and (4) lobby mapping & stakeholder analysis.4

Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group which aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. Advocacy in all its forms seeks to ensure that people, particularly those who are most vulnerable in society, are able to;5

• Have their voice heard on issues that are important to them.

• Defend and safeguard their rights.

• Have their views and wishes genuinely considered when decisions are being made about their lives.

Advocacy is a process of supporting and enabling people to;

• Express their views and concerns.

• Access information and services.

• Defend and promote their rights and responsibilities.

• Explore choices and options

Going into the SWOT analysis for this thematic area for UNYFA, the following were the issues sited by the members:

4 https://prezi.com/jsrmh2jimcux/copy-of-farmers-advocacy-consultation-tool-fact/

5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy

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STRENGTHS WEAKNESS

* Strong voice due to the fact that UNFFE is the biggest farmer organization in Uganda with over 2 million farmers.

* UNYFA is a new organization: gives it edge for liking from youth and other players.

* UNFFE houses UNYFA secretariat for coordination.

* Existence of active youth structure at grass root levels.

* Semi-autonomous nature of UNYFA

* Experience of UNFFE in advocacy –FACT tool available. Can nurture UNYFA.

* Staff capacity to advocate

* Some youths lack focus (they do not know what they what)

* Limited data on youths in agriculture

* Adequate experience

* Ownership of UNYFA (semi-Autonomous nature hence mail derail decision making process.

* Lack of enough or available resources for advocacy processes in UNYFA.

* Lack of an appropriate Approach to advocacy for youth issue.

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* Government’s drive through youth livelihood programs.

* Existing youth projects/ interventions by UNFFE and other development partners.

* Availability of Capacity building programmes in advocacy.

* Exposure learning opportunities for UNYFA especially from their partners.

* Availability of a Policy framework for youths in Uganda

* The large number of youths in Ugandan population provides a massive voice.

* Presence of youth leaders and structures at national & grass root level

* Availability of Networks/ allies like YOFACO, APF IITA etc. to synergize in advocacy processes.

* Increased urbanization in Uganda

* Unpredictable political change

* Insufficient resources and funding basket to facilitate the process.

* Competition with other youth initiatives

* Limited access to productive resources like land and finances by youth.

* Climate change

* Poor attitude of DFAs in appreciating UNYFA

* Negative attitude towards agriculture by youth.

* Unfriendly political environment and policy frameworks like the public order and management BILL.

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4.4 Networking

This group was facilitated by Mr. Kabiito Denis the UNYFA coordinator and members brainstormed about networking. They all understood networking as

a). Collaboration of UNYFA with mother organization (UNFFE), Donors/ international world, District famers associations (grass root structures) and one between farmers to farmers.

b). Spreading our (UNYFA) wings meaning that we should establish linkages

c). Synergy/ partnerships that help in either amplifying our voice or providing one voice.

Young farmers association needs to build relationships in order to survive, thrive, gain allies in advocacy, and fundraise and also to seek for recognition. These relationships can be built with Line ministries (like MAAIF, gender and Labour ministry, finance etc.), Academia, International partners, Donors, Development partners.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

* Relevancy of the issue (young farmer) to many people now.

* Advancement in ICT for youth/young farmers can facilitate process easily.

* Experienced management &board for mother organization.

* The fact that UNFFE is a non- political membership based organization.

* UNFFE structure is suitable in establishing networks.

* Volatile youth hence many fear association with them.

* No strategic plan for UNYFA in place

* Misconception of ideas (hesitant DFAs and other development partners.

* Provision of right info to members may be a challenge.

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* Government policy / enabling environment.

* Advancement in technology for communication

* Public Private Partnerships being encouraged of recent.

* Donors’ ability to support youth networks.( AHA to UNYFA)

* Exposure learning opportunities for UNYFA especially from their partners

* Competition due to many initiatives on youth in place.

* Poor relations with the would be partners

* Sustainable resource envelop.

* Unpredictable political environment

* Bureaucratic tendencies in many systems may bog down the process.

* Provision of right information to members.

* High expectations from communities

4.5. Education and training

Education or training is another important thematic area that UNYFA will be engaged in to benefit its members. The group to analyze this was moderated by Dr. Andrea Teutenburg who engaged the members into the discussion by asking them to brainstorm on what comes to their minds when we talk about UNYFA and education/ trainings services. These viewed Education / training meaning as follows:

1. Knowledge transformation

2. Enriching UNYFA team with Knowledge

3. Attitude change

4. Agricultural capacity building

5. New ways of doing things

6. Continuous learning

7. Imparting specific skills

8. Raising awareness

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These were narrowed down to three key areas of focus under training and education namely:

* Knowledge building and evaluation

* Skills ( Technical & Social /Soft )

* Trainer’s competency

The SWOT analysis under this development area is summarized below in the table:


* Availability of Expertise (In house & out sourced)

* Exposure learning opportunities for UNYFA (core team) especially from their partners.

* Access to available funds & other resources from Donor.(AHA is a capacity building arm of Germany farmers)

* Existence Knowledge about people’s needs (we know what youth want)

* Inadequate technical expertise on the diverse themes youth may need.

* Unclear objectives & Lack of statues for UNYFA at the start.

* Too many ideas at the moment.

* Not knowing what training to offer

* Reliance on one source of funds.

* Inadequate IEC materials

* Resource mobilization not commensurate with potential expansion in services

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* Networks: Availability of networks beneficial to our cause. CURAD & Universities

* Unique brand/image therefore there is high demand for youth intervention in agriculture.

* Opportunities ; Opportunity and room for outsourcing

* Opportunity to be trained by AHA

* Competition due to many initiatives on youth in place.

* Dependency on external funds

* Competition for donor funding

* High expectations from communities

4.6. Services

Farmer organizations are judged by the nature and type of services they deliver to their members. For any membership organization to stay strong, members should accrue value from it through the services obtained. It’s therefore important for UNYFA to provide tailor made services to its members.

This group was facilitated by Mr. Heinrich Ledebur and members described services to be any kind of support, interventions addressing youth interests and issues, software e.g. mentorship, linkages, experience sharing or trainings and administrative support.

The SWOT analysis under this area of development was summarized in the table below.

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* Availability of Infrastructure& equipment (office) even at the grass roots (DFAs)

* Existence of IEC and visibility materials (brochures, flyers, website, social media etc.)

* Linkages

* Existence of service delivery structures within UNFFE

* Expertise within the organization( trainers& advisors)

* Wide area of operation in Uganda

* UNFFE brand that may feel that there is competition for members.

* Inadequate Human resource at secretariat, on the diverse themes youth may need..

* Competition with other players

* Inadequate Finance envelope that is not commensurate with potential expansion in services

* Too many ideas to deal with

* High expectations from the youth


* High demand for community development services due to poverty in communities.

* Dealing with an energetic, innovative and trainable age group.

* Existing young model farmers or development partners for experience sharing

* Availability of networks beneficial to our cause

* Availability of competent personnel

* Availability of potential donors

* Existing Youth related programs

* Experience

* Filtering information to deliver to youth.

* Independency and avoiding of external influence.

* High expectation of Free handouts/ materials

* Prioritization of the services

* Sustainable resource envelop.

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5.0 SyntheSiS of findingS

Involved reflections on the various areas of development by UNYFA core team together with AHA facilitators and identified various areas which need to be worked on. Being the fact that the SWOT was diverse there was needed to narrow down the scope to sizable and meaningful issues to deal with. The different reflections are thus discussed below:

5.1 profeSSionaliSation

Strengths How UNYFA will benefit

Big Membership of Youth under UNFFE structures. Use it to attract youth into UNYFA.

Presence of youth leaders at the grass roots. To be used as mobilisers and TOTs.

Presence of established coopera-tives and other farmer organiza-tions.

1.Catalyst for institutional and hu-man resource capacity building if well managed

2. Strengthens the collective voice of youth.

Experience within UNFFE Use it to attract business, increase our competitiveness

Will from UNFFE leaders, and other organizations to have a youth struc-ture in place.

Use it to increase bargaining power to attract projects or interventions for youth.

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Weaknesses Solutions

Existing weak youth structures, most cases fragmented.

Strengthen their capacity and use this as a gap to initiate our inter-vention.

Poor flow of information along UNFFE structures.

Improve on communication flow. Harness value of ICT; social media visa-vie youth.

Senior leaders pre-dominate the leadership roles at the district level.

Structural adjustments needed. Continuous sensitization and lead-ership training.

Low competence levels among the youth. Strengthen their capacity.

Opportunities How to exploit them

Presence of youth leaders nation-ally.

Use them to mobilize and sensitize our youth.

Collaboration with other agencies Acquire new partnerships and networks

Big youth population in Uganda ( 77% below 30 years of Age)2

Resource mobilise for demanded youth community development services.

Existing youth policies in livelihood and agriculture.

Continue with strategies fit with Government policies to make UNYFA relevant.

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Boom in ICT advancement(social media)

Harness potential that lies within the youth.

Ability to create UNYFA unique-ness.

Utilizing the initial stage where UNYFA is now to see what we are capable of doing for the commu-nity and other initiatives cannot provide.

Big number of financial sources for youth.

Set up resource mobilisation team to develop project proposals

Threats Proposed solutions.

Influence of old over the young is a threat in terms of decision making.

Build a vibrant force of young lead-ers in the structures.

Youth have high expectations Lower the expectations by standing by our value preposition.

Duplication of activities/services from similar organizations

Make UNYFA more competitive by improving the quality of services

Lack of sustainable funding mecha-nisms.

Pursue strategies that will lead to UNYFA sustainability in the long-run.

Competition from other players in the youth sector/ and or duplica-tion.

UNYFA should put out a unique brand.

Old UNFFE structures that may be a stumbling block for this (competi-tion in DFAs, NEC etc.)

Establishing statutes and strictly following them.

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Key issues under professionalizing UNYFA.

These include:

a) Strengthening the youth structures in DFAs. These are the building blocks for the national Apex body. There is therefore need to

* Find out the issues that make these DFAs weak.

* Clarify the roles and activities of UNYFA within UNFFE structures.

* Streamline the roles in governance for all UNYFA/ UNFFE structures at all levels.

* Work and also make youth desks in DFAs more active. Key agents of change

b) High expectations – we have to be very clear on what we stand for/ set clear value prepositions. These have to be disseminated all over.

c) Personnel and leaders capacities at all levels. – The strength of UNYFA is to depend on the capacities of the secretariat and its leaders in all levels therefore all efforts should be geared towards enhancing their capacities.

5.2 adVocacy

STRENGTHS How UNYFA can benefit in terms of advocacy.

Strong voice due to the fact that UNFFE is the biggest farmer or-ganization in Uganda with over 2 million farmers.

Use its structures to build allies, to collaborate and obtain a strong voice.

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UNYFA is a New organization: gives it edge for liking from youth and other players.

Uniqueness and newness should be key in finding new allies.

UNFFE houses UNYFA secretariat for coordination.

Use its reputation to attract busi-ness and increase our competitive-ness.

Existence of active youth structure at grass root levels.

Use them to mobilize and sensitize our youth in order to amplify our voice.

Semi-autonomous nature of UNYFA Enables fast track activities.

Experience of UNFFE in advocacy –FACT tool available. Can nurture UNYFA.

Will nurture UNYFA and build their capacity

Weaknesses Solutions.

Staff capacity to advocate Strengthen their capacity

Some youths lack focus (they do not know what they what)

Continuous sensitization and train-ing

Limited data on youths in agricul-ture

Document review, baseline and case studies.

Ownership of UNYFA (semi-Auton-omous nature hence mail derail decision making process.

Increase information flow between the two structures.

Lack of enough or available re-sources for advocacy processes in UNYFA.

Establish sustainable funding strat-egy for the institution

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Lack of an appropriate Approach to advocacy for youth issue.

Needs assessment should be car-ried out.

OPPORTUNITIES How to exploit them

Government’s drive through youth livelihood programs.

Continue with strategies which fit with Government policies to make UNYFA relevant

Existing youth projects/ interven-tions by UNFFE and other develop-ment partners.

Use them to mobilize and sensitize our youth

Availability of Capacity building programmes in advocacy.

Utilize their services

Exposure learning opportunities for UNYFA especially from their partners.

Utilize the opportunity to build our exposure and information base.

Availability of a Policy framework for youths in Uganda


The large number of youths in Ugandan population provides a massive voice.

Should seek for their mandate thereby amplifying our voice.

Presence of youth leaders and structures at national & grass root level

Use them to mobilize and sensitize our youth

Availability of Networks/ allies like YOFACO, APF IITA etc. to synergize in advocacy processes.

Acquire new partnerships and networks

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THREATS Proposed Solutions

Increased urbanization in Uganda Need to strengthen farmer organi-sation and make rural areas active.

Unpredictable political environ-ment

Keeping ourselves and operations neutral to dissociate UNYFA from politics and formulate strategies which make it resilient in such situ-ations.

Insufficient resources and funding basket to facilitate the process.

Pursue strategies that will lead to UNYFA sustainability in the long-run

Competition with other youth initiatives

Opting to be unique right from plans, strategies services and delivery such that we establish our-selves different from competitors.

Limited access to productive resources like land and finances by youth.

Sensitizing youths about the impor-tance of forming groups, coopera-tives and organizations where we can combine efforts and perform what an individual cannot.

Climate change Employing integrated strategies which improves and conserve the environment e.g. partnering with agencies such as EBAFOSA to miti-gate effects climate change.

Poor attitude of DFAs in appreciat-ing UNYFA

Understanding the DFAs’ point of view and leverage their decisions with UNYFA’s.

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Negative attitude towards agricul-ture by youth.

Continuous sensitization and trainings aiming at changing the mindset of youths.

Key issues under Advocacy

Members discussed and come up with the keys issues to consider under advocacy namely:

* What issues do we have to advocate for and how to approach advocacy? This therefore requires mapping out key issues from the grassroots to national level.

* Staff competence. A capacity assessment is needed at all levels to ascertain the advocacy capacity gaps in staff. Also roles and responsibility sharing in organs of UNYFA . need for technical and political wings.

* Clarify UNYFA profile and position. Clarity of UNYFA profile by defining its scope and kind of services it provides and the milestones (where we want to go and what we stand for).

5.3 NETWORKING

Strengths How UNYFA will benefit in terms of networking

Relevancy of the issue (young farmer) to many people now.

Fastens the spreading and uptake of the UNYFA information thus establishment of viable networks.

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Advancement in ICT for youth/young farmers can facilitate pro-cess easily.

It solidifies and widens the net-working platforms due to continu-ous communication since a number of young people and organizations embrace ICT.

Experienced management & board for mother organization.

Capacity to establish and handle networks . also provide expertise and linkages.

The fact that UNFFE is a non- politi-cal membership based organiza-tion.

Enables UNYFA to collaborate with a number of organizations and initiatives across the country.

UNFFE structure is suitable in establishing networks.

It gives UNYFA a chance of establishing network platforms right from grass root level to apex focusing at covering all individuals/ organizations at all levels.


Volatile youth hence many fear as-sociation with them.

Continuous sensitization and train-ing. Build a vibrant team of leaders that will mentor others.

No strategic plan for UNYFA in place

Drafting the strategic plan as soon as possible.

Misconception of ideas (hesitant DFAs and other development partners.

Understanding the DFAs’/ partners’ point of view and leverage their decisions with UNYFA’s.

Provision of right info to members may be a challenge.

Carrying out research to be members’ needs oriented before conducting any communication.

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Government policy / enabling environment.


Advancement in technology for communication

Harness potential that lies within the youth to embrace technology.

Public Private Partnerships being encouraged of recent.

Establish viable new partnerships and networks and operate towards sustaining the existing ones.

Donors’ ability to support youth networks ( AHA to UNYFA)

Exhibiting a high level of profes-sionalism and commitment in terms of timely planning, delivery and reporting, to keep the available donor support and open doors for more funds.

Exposure learning opportunities for UNYFA especially from their partners

Utilize the opportunity to build our exposure and information base.


Competition due to many initiatives on youth in place.

Carrying out competitors’ analysis and find out what they are capable of and not.

Opting to be unique right from plans, strategies services and delivery such that we establish our-selves different from competitors.

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Poor relations with the would be partners

Building our partnerships and networks on a strong communica-tion strategy which foster open-ness & accountability in order to have a feedback giving culture and enhance a room for improvement among various collaborations.

Sustainable resource envelops. Pursue strategies that will lead to UNYFA sustainability in the long-run.

Unpredictable political environ-ment

Keeping ourselves and operations neutral to dissociate UNYFA from politics and formulate strategies which make it resilient in such situ-ations.

Bureaucratic tendencies in many systems may bog down the pro-cess.

Planning ahead of time of any ac-tivity and continously follow up the applications of plans/ proposals.

Provision of right information to members.


Key issues under Networking

1. Strategic planning; this is a door opener for many networks and linkages since its crucial for the organization existence and sustainability.

2. Stakeholders analysis3. Mapping out who to network with is important and what to benefit or

share.4. Good technical system: have a proper communication strategy and

gadgets

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5.4 SERVICES

Strengths How UNYFA will benefit in terms of services

Availability of Infrastructure & equipment (office)even at the grass roots (DFAs)

This will foster efficient & effec-tive mobilization of young farmers, proper service delivery and follow-up of members.

Existence of IEC and visibility materials (brochures, flyers, website, social media etc.)

It enables UNYFA to provide infor-mation about services, also act as an avenue to educate the commu-nity and boosting our publicity.

Linkages Wide coverage & minimize on the burden of providing all the services alone.

Existence of service delivery struc-tures within UNFFE

It enhances efficient and effec-tive service delivery and impact appraisal.

Expertise within the organization( trainers& advisors)

Helps the organization to rely on its personnel at conducting all op-erations in this development area and eliminate the costs of hiring consultants.


UNFFE brand that may feel that there is competition for members.

Sensitize all DFAs and members about relevance of UNYFA in UNFFE as one to strengthen the current UNFFE youth wing/ structure.

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Inadequate Human resource at secretariat, on the diverse themes youth may need.

Strengthen the available and do capacity building

Competition with other players Opting to be unique right from plans, strategies services and delivery such that we establish our-selves different from competitors.

Inadequate Finance envelope that is not commensurate with poten-tial expansion in services

Pursue strategies that will lead to UNYFA sustainability in the long-run.


High demand for community devel-opment services due to poverty in communities.

Tackle members’ needs in a con-sumer friendly way that considers fulfilling their agricultural needs and giving reference for other services beyond our capacity.

Dealing with an energetic, innova-tive and trainable age group.

Engaging youths right from the planning process, implementa-tion etc. such that they own every intervention attaining to improve their livelihoods and interest others to take up farming.

Existing young model farmers or development partners for experi-ence sharing

Put up platforms where young farmers can exhibit / shows case what they are capable of in farming to inspire others and also share with others to learn.

Availability of networks beneficial to our cause

Acquire new partnerships and networks

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Availability of competent personnel Utilize them as TOTs for various youth groups.

Availability of potential donors Exhibiting a high level of profes-sionalism and commitment in terms of timely planning, delivery and reporting, to keep the available donor support and open doors for more funds.

Existing Youth related programs Continue with strategies which fit with into all youth related pro-grams to make UNYFA relevant.


Experience at all levels may be lucking

Capacity building and investing in excursions

Filtering information to deliver to youth.


Independency and avoiding of external influence.

Having strong statutes in place and strictly follow them.

High expectation of Free handouts/ materials

Clear outset of what UNYFA can offer.

Prioritization of the services Seeking members’ consent on which services are most important.

Sustainable resources envelop. Pursue strategies that will lead to UNYFA sustainability in the long-run.

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Key issues under services

We considered looking at what unique brand can UNYFA provide (benefits to members), Training of trainers(TOT); mentorship of the members, fun – experience sharing; linkages and networks, event organization, farmer exchange visits, advocacy and lobby, legal services , events organization( Travelling etc) as some of the services UNYFA can offer .- But we should be mindful of not spreading too thin and become irrelevant.

5.5 education/ trainingS

Strengths How UNYFA will benefit

Availability of Expertise (In house & out sourced)

Helps the organization to rely on its personnel at conducting all op-erations in this development area and eliminate the costs of hiring consultants.

Exposure learning opportunities for UNYFA (core team) especially from their partners.

It improves the skills and knowl-edge of the members of the core team and be in position to educate magnitudes of farmers.

Access to available funds & other resources from Donor.(AHA is a capacity building arm of Germany farmers)

Paves away for UNYFA to imple-ment its plans and attain the goal of training other young people by utilizing AHA services.

Existing Knowledge about people’s needs (we know what youth want)

Leads to appropriate layout of the education/ trainings strategy and change the society.


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Inadequate technical expertise on the diverse themes youth may need.

Conducting capacity building and research on what suitable for youths.

Unclear objectives & Lack of stat-ues for UNYFA at the start.

Drafting the necessary tool entail-ing the objectives and statutes.

Too many ideas at the moment. Prioritize the ideas and consider the most important ones only.

Not knowing what training to offer Offering members’ needs oriented trainings.


Networks: Availability of networks beneficial to our cause. CURAD & Universities

Creating platforms which enhance collaboration and exchange of expertize in various fields which UNYFA may not be in position to provide.

Unique brand/image therefore there is high demand for youth intervention in agriculture.

Providing viable trainings which are members’ needs oriented.

Opportunities; Opportunity and room for outsourcing

Embrace and get involved in every viable opportunity aiming at knowl-edge and skills transfer.

Opportunity to be trained by AHAProposing for more training on various expertise/ skills and knowl-edge.

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Dependency on external fundsPursue strategies that will lead to UNYFA sustainability in the long-run.

Competition for donor fundingExhibiting a high level of profes-sionalism and strictly follow what donors want.

High expectations from communi-ties

Clear outset of what UNYFA can offer.



Key issues under Education:

UNYFA has to look out on what trainings to offer and leave others for other partners. This has to come from members.

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6.0 recommendationS

At the end of the workshop all participants came up with the following recommendation as shown below:

* The role of partners and present agencies (in the SWOT analysis exercise) are very paramount and should be highly considered.

* Underscore the importance of DFAs and grass root structures.

* Come up with Procedures of getting structures at grassroots as we build UNYFA

* Communication platform should be opened up and shared to with every participant to enhance more interaction and bridge the communication gap.

* DFA representatives should be our Ambassadors country wide.

Therefore there is :

* Need to strengthen institutional capacity in terms of infrastructure, human resource, finance and management information system.

* Need to strengthen communities’ capacity to benefit from UNYFA services and development opportunities countrywide.

* Need to position a unique brand of UNYFA that will serve its purpose in Uganda for the youth in Agriculture.

These issues will form the foundation of UNYFA strategy over the next period.

* (Footnotes)

1 www.wikipedia.org/wiki/youth in uganda.

2 www.wikipedia.org/wiki/youth in uganda.

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ANNEX

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

NO NAME ORGAN-ISATION

DESIGNA-TION ADDRESS

1 Kabiito Denis UNYFA [email protected]

2 Ssekiwanga Julius MDFA Youth repre-sentative

0752207080 [email protected]

3 Barole Maurice MADFA Youth secre-tary


4 Idibu Okot Simon MOYO administrator

0783808111 [email protected] [email protected]

5 Namata samalie UNYFA Administra-tive assistant

[email protected]

6 Magezi Samuel UNYFAproduction and value chain

[email protected]

7 Rose Sylvia Nakafu UNFFEE Youth secre-tary

[email protected]

8 Olengo Alex UNYFA marketing and advocacy

[email protected]

9 Barigye Julius TRIAS

Coordina-tor Agro-Enterprise Development (AED)

0782449803

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10 Baluku Isaya YOFACORepresenta-tive P.M Agri-business

[email protected]

11 Jumba F CURADClient development officer-Youth

[email protected]

12 Oramire stuart AFT Executive director

[email protected]

13 Katungisa Kenneth UNFFE

Deputy chief executive secretary (DCES)

[email protected]

14 Ayebare Prudence UNFFEE P. [email protected]

16 Augustine Mwen-dya UNFFEE

Chief execu-tive secretary (CES)

[email protected]

17 Andrea Teutenbeg AHA Consultant [email protected]

18 Moses Rwabarita

AFT WEST-ERN FARMER

farmer

[email protected]

19 Natamba Winnie UNFFEE [email protected]

20 Odur Hartwel DFA APAC

Youth repre-sentative

[email protected]

21 Tukundane Nelson UNFFE Communica-tion officer


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22 Martin Baum-gartner B3B

President Ba-varia young farmers

[email protected]

23 Heinrich Ledebur Trainer farmer

[email protected]

24 Brian Kwikiriza AFT Farmer/ pro-grams officer

[email protected]

Ssebulime Allan CAPCA Senior M&E OFFICER

[email protected]

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UNYFA-SWOT-Workshop - Dr. Andrea Teutenberg, AHA international, Bonn

UNYFA-Workshop

‚SWOT-Analysis for building up

UNYFA and M&E‘

Assembly Hall, UNFFE

Kampala

25. & 26. Mai 2016

Referenten: Dr. Andrea Teutenberg & Heinrich Ledebur, AHA international, Bonn


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Documents

UNYFA SWOT ANALYSIS REPORT · 3 UNYFA Co-ordination Office foreWard I am pleased to present to you the SWOT report on the suitability and practicability in the formulation of a young