Evidencing the Sustainability of Volunteer Farmer Trainers
About
This activity aims to evaluate the extent Volunteer Farmer Trainers (VFTs) were able to continue providing extension services consisting of a core suite of sustainable agriculture skills and practices developed within Ripple Effect projects, and extent to which sustainability plans in each project-facilitated continuation of service delivery.
Evidencing the Sustainability of Ripple Effect’s Volunteer Farmer Trainer Extension Approach
Ripple Effect US commissioned this study to inform the knowledge gaps around how resourcing, capacity, motivation, and institutional linkages can be mobilized to sustain and incentivize the Volunteer Farmer Trainers community-level service delivery model after donor-funded projects are completed.
How to Motivate and Sustain Volunteer Farmer Trainers Webinar
This one-hour webinar summarized key findings from Ripple Effect's research into the sustainability of a volunteer farmer trainers model post-project in Uganda and Kenya.
Volunteer Farmer Training: An Approach for Sustaining Agriculture Training in African Small Holder Farming Communities
This blog highlights key findings from the research into the sustainability of the volunteer farmer training model in Uganda and Kenya.
Peer Farmer model features on Citizen TV Kenya’s ‘Smart Farm’
This blog showcases how Ripple Effect's peer farmer trainer model is helping to plug gaps in extension services for rural communities in Western Kenya.