PELUM Uganda has over the years built the capacity of its member organisations in a number of areas. The capacity building agenda is set by member organisations at the strategic planning stage and through capacity needs assessments. Broad areas for capacity building usually include; organisational/institutional development; ecological land use; access to markets and cross cutting issues including gender, HIV and climate change
Specific Objectives
- To enhance the capacity and organizational development efforts of Member Organizations
- To strengthen the capacity of MOs to support farmers’ organizational capacity and technical development for sustainable land use
- To enhance the capacity of MOs to undertake evidence-based advocacy
Training and sensitization workshops are carried out in gender, HIV, advocacy, participatory monitoring and evaluation, fundraising and ecological land use among others. The trainings are internal as well as external with the latter (sub-regional and regional) creating an opportunity for experience sharing
In 2009, 11 trainings were conducted in the areas of;
- Participatory market chain approach
- Sustainable organic agriculture
- Farmer entrepreneurship
- Sensitization workshop on climate change and international trade
- Policy analysis and advocacy
- Seed security
This year, 2010, trainings have been conducted in;
- Policy and advocacy
- Seed security
- Farmer entrepreneurship
