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KISOGA ZONE YOUTH SKILLING POULTRY PROJECT PROPOSAL IN MUKONO DISTRICT.

Project title: Training, skilling the youths and Eggs for Nutritional improvement and commercial

Project coverage: KISOGA ZONE.

Project Duration: THREE FISCAL YEAR.

Implementary Agency: Train and Feed the YOUTHS AND ELDERY at low cost.

Project cost: ushs. 1,500,000,000/=

DONOR: EUROPEAN UNION.

FARM MANAGER,

WASSWA MORISHID.A

KISOGA ZONAL FARM.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

Project summary: Unskilled youths.

People who need special needs  are having health complications and are recommended for special diets, elderly, weak, pregnant mothers and young children whose mothers are in the community.

Project Title: Train, skill the youth and Eggs for Nutritional improvement and commercial

Project Aim: To train and feed the youth, provide skills and offset the National budget.

Key project activities: Training of the youth and production of table eggs for commercial purposes

Outputs addressed: 1. Increase egg production per year.

2. Improved health of elderly and reduced mortality in the district.
3. Improved vital knowledge to youths such as agricultural skills, a means of correction and promote hard work.
4. Income generation to sustain the project.

The project will cost 1.5 billion including all the activities from initiation, monitoring and many more for the three months duration thus 2022to 2024.

LOCATION.

The project shall be in various places but the suitable is Kisoga zone in Mukono district.

Background information of Mukono District.

Mukono District is located in central Uganda, the district neighbors Wakiso, to the west, Kayunga to the north, Buikwe to the east and kalangala to the south. The district has 80 parishes and 592 village.

Mukono District has a total population of approximately 701,400(UBOS, 2019) Mukono Town is a municipality in Mukono District in the Central Region of Uganda. The town is administered by the Mukono Town Council. The district headquarters are located in this town.

Mukono Municipality administration is divided into (a) the political arm headed by the Mayor, (b) the technical arm headed by the Town Clerk and the legislative arm, headed by the Speaker of the town council. The council is the supreme policy-making organ in the town. It is composed of 26 elected councilors. Members of the town council serve four-year terms. The mayor of the town is elected to a five-year term by universal adult suffrage using a secret ballot. The technical staff of the town council are headed by the town clerk under whom there are four municipal departments: the Management Department, the Treasury Department, the Public Health Department, and the Engineering Department.

Background and context of the project.

PROJECT BACKGROU ND.

In Uganda, every rural household own chicken at subsistence level. Poultry has a quicker return in small production unit areas and are easily handled by any category of people. Poultry production in zonal district has been done for training, skilling and purposes of commercial to the youths.

Commercial poultry production has been sustainable and various advantages attributed such as;

1. Improvement of income.
2. Improvement of nutrition for the stakeholders.
3. Contribution in improving literacy level as standard of living improves thus parents are able to send children to school.
4. Job creation since commercialization of poultry is labour intensive.
5. Sharing of skills.

Therefore such a project in prisons is justifiable.

ACHIEVEMENTS ATTAINED.

OVERALL GOAL AND PROJECT OBJECTIVES.

The overall goal is to feed prisoners to offset the budget.

The set objectives are:

To improve nutrition in prisons and reduce mortality among inmates

To make such a project a learning center.

PROJECT JUSTIFICATION.

Mukono District  has initiated a step of providing skills of poultry and offering special care for the sick community especially those with HIV/AIDS, T.B, cancer and other devastating diseases. These people need special nutritional attention besides the drugs they are subjected to .eggs have complete component of food with high nutritional value. It is advisable for every individual to have 2 eggs per week for good health.

There are also pregnant mothers, elderly  and many more who need special care nutritionally hence eggs are good source of nutrition for them. Mukono District  is a center for correction and rehabilitation, it is also deem advantageous to maintain poultry production in prisons service as part of agricultural activities and learning center for the prisoners.

In tandem ,with the growth in sophiscation of Ugandan population, demands for poultry products have further products increased drastically             in turn, it calls for increased productivity. Mukono district has been a factory of producing agricultural products .participating in poultry production will contribute to expectation of consumers and other added values like revenue.

PROJECT STATEMENT AND NEEDS

The reason of coming up with this project is to address the problem of skilling of the youths and special needs who are already in the zonal community. The  stringent health test the zone has come up with statistically high number of youths affected with HIV/AIDS and other diseases which need special attention , some of the drugs they are subjected to require good feeding in order to minimize high level of mortality in the district . Providing 2 eggs for each special need per week is justifiable.

Most of the community members  in most cases these are youth who have grown without directions. Such projects can rehabilitate them and provide them with skills and they start reasoning constructively to build the nation.

PROJECT LAUNCH.

The project is expected to begin in October 2022 and to run till current year, when assessment of the project will be carried out to determine its impacts in Mukono District. Thereafter the project will continue and assessment will be carried out after another two years.

Monitoring and evolution will be carried out from the beginning of the project to ensure that there is smooth running of the project.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT.

The project shall have 6 components which concern infrastructural development and capacity building. These are the key activities of the project: Poultry Genetic Resources development. This is to provide improved breeds of chicken for egg production, Poultry houses. Repair the floor. Besides technical staff, the project shall need the service of 15 zonal youths to offer other unskilled labor like maintenance of compound, feeding the chicken under the supervision of the attendants. Collection of eggs, and transporting to stores, offloading and loading trucks in the farm. The key personnel here in management structure are: The farm manager, The assistant manager in charge production, The accountant, Monitoring and evaluation officer and many more.

THE PROJECT COORDINATION UNIT. PCU

This project shall directly be managed by technical members with skills in project management. These members will determine the prices of the products and the general operations of the project. The funds generated shall be managed in a manner to expand the project and activities as deemed this coordinating team like annexing other modern agricultural activities such as a goat production, production of compost manure, packaging of poultry products and vegetable growing that are vertically connected to poultry production.

This will automatically introduce this unit into a center for learning to other institutions.

PARTNERSHIP WORKING.

Examples are:

1. European union that supported in Mukono district in the late 2019 and early 2020 with grant of giant hatchery in Kisoga , 6000 broiler parent stock and 4000 layer parent stock.
2. Symbiotic participation within the farms in the department can contribute to the existence of this project like growing maize, soya beans, cotton and many more in turn they receive eggs.

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.

ORGANISATON AND MANAGEMENT.

Mukono Municipality administration is divided into (a) the political arm headed by the Mayor, (b) the technical arm headed by the Town Clerk and the legislative arm, headed by the Speaker of the town council. The council is the supreme policy-making organ in the town. It is composed of 26 elected councilors. Members of the town council serve four-year terms. The mayor of the town is elected to a five-year term by universal adult suffrage using a secret ballot. The technical staff of the town council are headed by the town clerk under whom there are four municipal departments: the Management Department, the Treasury Department, the Public Health Department, and the Engineering Department

The project at production level shall have a staff comprising of staff (technical)

Sustainability plan.

The project is technically feasible, economically viable and socially sound and environmentally friendly. It is financially and economic returns confirm its soundness as an investment opportunity leading to90% of increase in poultry productivity. Its cost sharing participation in thus Equipping 60% of the youths. The department has put in line with government programs.

Grants are expected for the implementation of the project subjected to conditions specified in the terms of agreements of the grants and protocol. Other annexed agricultural activities could be employed during this project if the prisons vision can go beyond keeping inmates forex ample the production will attract many stakeholders from various institutions, farmers, youths and schools to learn the skills such agricultural activities as:

Preparation and use of compost manure. Soil conservation, Vegetable growing. And many more

.Kisoga zonal farm thus becomes a Centre for learning nationally. Besides production, the youths can introduce a program in future to add value to the products such as:  processing and packaging for easy storage and dispatches to the consumer. Such processing plants as slaughtered chicken, packaging, processing of eggs to products, processing of milk products, honey procession.

Monitoring and Evaluation plan.

The implementation of the project will be closly monitored joint monthly quarters, visits will be made to project site. The monitoring reports containing findings wil be made available to all the stake holders and funding agency.

PROJECT COSTS, BUDGETING AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS.

The total project cost including contingencies is estimated to be UGX1,500,000,000/=

The financial aspects

This is the investment structures.

FIXED CAPITAL

The projected capital outlay

1. Repairs and maintenance of buildings and fencing 18,000,000/=
2. Purchase of day old chicks (layer parents) 40,000,000/=
3. Incubator                                                   72,000,0000/=
4. Preliminary expenses 4,400,000/=

Total                                                                                            134,400,000/=

Working capital.

To care for the stock (parents and commercial) feed resources, water supply.

Project coordination and contingencies shall require UGX 385,948,000/=

Working capital provision for the fiscal year.

Overheads                                                                                         900,000/=

LAYOUT OF THE PROJECT BUDGET WHEN PARENT STOCK IS INVOLVED.

Total =520,348,000/=

Net worth in 2 fiscal years                   692,420,000/=

Less 520,348,000/=

172,072,000/=

Then this fund can reolve to sustain the project to fulfill the overall goal.

BREAKDOWN OF FEEDING AND COSTS APPROXIMATE FEED CONSUMPTION FOR LAYERS PARENT AND COMMERCIAL LAYERS (THEY EAT THE SAME RATIO)

2000layers require total feeds worth 90,000,000/=

PERIMETER FENCING.

Total = 6,925,000/=

HATCHERY.

TOTAL= 72,000,000/=

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS. (UGX IN MILLION)

CROSS CUTTING ISSUES.( Gender,HIV,Environment,Covid19)

Environment.

Befor the project commences, environmental experts will be hired to conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment to identifypotential efforts the project may have on the environment and establish mitigation measures thus the environmental management plan will be selected to highlight all the environmental control strategies to ensure the project positively contribute to the environment.

HIV.

• Information, education, and communication for behavioural change through print materials, radio programmes, advocacy meetings, music, drama, and health talks.
• Promotion of condom use § Home visiting and counselling § Standard management of STDs § AIDS patient care )

Gender.

Capacity building for staff for improved service delivery.

• Promoting gender quality and equity through gender responsiveness in various government programmes.

Covid 19

Encourage all the participants, donors on the project to maintain and follow the standard operating procedures such as washing hands, putting on a face mask and many more to prevent the spread of the virus.

FRAM FOR SKILLING THE YOUTHS IN KISOGA ZONE IN MUKONO DISTRICT THROUGH IMPROVED POULTRY FARMING.