1. PROJECT TITLE: The Viable ‘African’ Home Project
(VAHP)
2.
PROJECT CODE: SC.01.01
3.
BKDS SECTOR: Social Sector Programmes
4.
BKDS
PROGRAMME: The
Revitalized African Village for the year 2005
(RAV
2005)
5.
IMPLEMENTING
ORGANISATION: BUCADEF
6.
BACKGROUND:
The majority of the people of Buganda
live in homesteads with fundamental deficiencies in respect to basic
necessities of life including a decent home, balanced diet, food storage,
domestic income, energy supply, market channels, water and sanitation facilities. The program therefore intends to evolve a
viable (hygienic and self-reliant) home within the traditional “African Village
System”. The “Rejuvenated Sustainable African
Village” should have the characteristics of well maintained basic
infrastructure of access roads, community schools, health centres, water
sources, recreation facilities, general purpose buildings for social and
administration functions, a cohesive village community knotted in the ideal
moral and ethical fabric, etc; This used to be a comprehensive village
unit comprising self sufficient homes served with well maintained social and
economic infrastructure. It helped to
combat rural to urban migration.
7.
PROJECT
OBJECTIVES
The viable
‘African’ Home Project (VAHP) has the following objectives:
(a) To carry out
an integrated campaign towards the improvement of the standard of living in the
home especially in the rural setting by ensuring that every home has the basic
viable home elements such as a hygienic, food security, and a poverty-free home
by the year 2005.
(b) To encourage
all leaders, resourceful personalities including those in the diaspora to be
role models by setting up Model Homes in their places of origin.
(c) To set up a
demonstrational Viable Home in every county of Buganda for transfer of
knowledge, information, and skills.
(d) To curb rural
urban migration as the villages will be more attractive to stay in.
8.
COMPONENTS:
The Viable Home shall have the
following components: the basic
elements of hygienic homestead with decent living housing, kitchen with energy
saving stoves, clean court-yard, animal husbandry stays, produce sun-drying
racks, stores, rain-water harvesting facilities, bath-shelter, pit-latrine,
composite pit, organic kitchen-garden, well-planned farm land for food and
income (including Omusiri gwa Kabaka),
agro-forestry and fruit trees, etc..;
9.
OUTPUTS
Well-maintained and self-reliant homes.
A decrease in rural-urban migration.
10. BENEFICIARIES: All people in
the Buganda Kingdom – especially from rural areas.
11. KEY ACTIVITIES:
|
Key activities |
Start time |
Responsible |
Collaborators |
|
Community capacity building for an
integrated approach to the establishment and management of hygienic and self
reliant homes |
1st Year |
BUCADEF |
NGOs, CBOs and Extension Workers |
|
Re-designing homesteads |
1st Year |
BUCADEF |
Community,
Local Authorities |
|
Setting up demonstration selected
homes. |
1st Year |
BUCADEF |
Local communities / local councils |
|
Promotion of Home hygiene and
Nutrition Education |
2nd Year |
BUCADEF / WATSAN |
Community / Health Workers |
|
Agriculture modernization |
3rd year |
BUCADEF |
Local communities |
12. MILESTONES
|
|
Time
|
Responsible
|
|
Training in capacity building
completed |
2nd Year |
BUCADEF |
|
Demonstration homes set up |
2nd Year |
BUCADEF |
|
Home hygiene and nutrition education
promoted. |
3rd Year |
BUCADEF |
13. FINANCING
|
|
External (US$) |
Own contribution (US$) |
Total (US$) |
|
18 Homes at 11120$ |
144,500 |
55,600 |
200,100 |
|
Materials and training |
55,600 |
27,800 |
83,400 |
|
Operational costs |
80,000 |
31,000 |
111,000 |
|
Project total (5 year) |
280,100 |
114,400 |
394,500 |
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