CGA-FERT Partnership

The Partnership between CGA and FERT has been in existence since July 2014 when it started with two counties (Nakuru and Narok) and has since expanded to cover Nakuru, Narok, Laikipia, Meru and Uasin Gishu. The main focus of the CGA-FERT partnership is institutional development and organizational strengthening with the aim of enhancing service delivery to CGA members both at the County and National level. These services include farmer representation and advocacy, technical (advisory and extension) and economic services (input and output market linkages) and information services (prices, markets, weather advisory).

There are three programmes currently being implemented in the five mentioned counties.

I. SEPOP (Producer Organization Services and Advocacy) Project

This project seeks to enhance the technical and governance capacity of CGA’s farmer leadership at the County and National levels to support the delivery of services to its members. The overall objective of SEPOP is to contribute to the development of the cereal farming sector and the improvement of the livelihoods of CGA’s family farms through the strengthening of a sustainable CGA leadership and governance structure.

Coverage: Laikipia, Meru, Nakuru, Narok and Uasin Gishu Counties.

Objectives

1. To improve the quality and deployment of the services offered by leaders to farmers who are members of CGA.
2. To strengthen the legitimacy of leaders at the county and national level.
3. To increase farmer leaders’ involvement in the development and implementation of inclusive, sustainable, and co-managed public policies.

Project Activities

• Development of targeted services for small, medium and large-scale farmers including CGA’s associate members
• Improvement of the quality of field services in the 5 counties for the various categories of CGA farmers
• Strengthening CGA representation, lobbying, advocacy, and training capacity at county and national level

Partners

• Ministries of Agriculture at the County and National Levels
• Agriculture Sector Network (ASNET)
• Warehouse Receipt Council (WRS)
• Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA)
• National Cereals and Produce Board

II. TransFert Program (TF)

Since 2015, FERT has been engaged in the implementation of the TransFert program in partnership with AFD. This program contributes to the development of agricultural services amongst CGA farmers. So far there have been three phases of TransFert (TF1, TF2, and TF3). In 2020, FERT embedded the Farmer Organizations for Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific Countries (FO4ACP) Project in its TransFert program with CGA.

FO4ACP

This project is a sub-contract agreement between CGA and FERT under the funding programme signed between AgriCord and EU and IFAD. FERT is supporting CGA under the project “Cereal Value Chain Development” with co-financing from the TransFert program, implemented by FERT and CGA with the support of AFD.

The overall objective of the FO4ACP program is to increase income and improve livelihoods, food and nutrition security, and safety of organized smallholder and family farmers in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP) countries.

Coverage: Laikipia, Meru, Nakuru, Narok and Uasin Gishu Counties.

Objectives

1. To accompany the development of economic activities for CGA farmers
2. To strengthen CGA’s members’ capacity to engage in policy dialogue for an improved agribusiness environment
3. To strengthen the institutional capacity of CGA and its constituents

Partners: FERT, AgriCord, EU and IFAD.