TOT Trainer: Agri-finance Financial Literacy Project

The project will involve training at two stages; first, a TOT training will be conducted by consultant to Yehu field staff on climate resilient poultry farming and gender. The consultant will also develop a training manual that will be used by the field staff to conduct a second level training to the farmers with guidance and continuous coaching from Tiwi Chicken Farm based in Kwale County.

Delivery of the training will be a combination of classroom-based teaching as well as hands-on training, including on-farm for the majority (93%) women farmers. The training will use a design that promotes farmer to farmer training and knowledge sharing. Also, delivery of the trainings will be suited for participants with basic level of literacy. The bidding entities will have to demonstrate their experience in working with similar target groups and their approaches in working with all female groups. Gender mainstreaming will adopt Gender Action Learning System (GALS) methodology.

The training should cover the following key topics:

a) Training to trainers (Tot) to 25 members of Yehu staff and 2 members of Tiwi Chicken Farm on climate-resilient poultry farming best practices.

1. Climate change and poultry farming
   • Potential effects of climate change on poultry and farmers, including growth rates, feeding habits, mortality and potential impact on farm productivity and profits.
   • Real-time or predictive information to inform climate risks, including climate and weather information, digital information services, real-time monitoring of shed climate and understanding conditions that may create stress in birds.
   • Identifying climate-related stress in poultry.
   • Reacting to climate stress in poultry.
2. Preventing climate-related stress in poultry farms
   • Affordable passive and active air or water ventilation options.
   • Litter spreading and de-caking in chicken houses.
   • Use of energy efficient bulbs
   • Use of vitamins and medicines
   • Adoption of local or climate-resilient breeds
   • Earlier bird stocking times.
   • Increased frequency of litter changing during heat stress periods.
3. Work requirements for a poultry farm.
   • Key work requirements in setting up and operating a poultry farm.
   • Typical daily schedule over the production lifecycle, and critical stages of the lifecycle.
   • The amount of labour and the kind of skills required across the production cycle.
   • Identify various design types best suited for smallholder broiler sheds in rural Kenya based on cost considerations, availability of materials, biosecurity, animal welfare requirements and climate resilience considerations.
   • Training should cover common design mistakes and their impact on productivity.
4. Brood management (including animal welfare)
   • Production lifecycle, critical stages during the lifecycle and key management requirements.
   • Introduce key issues around animal welfare and their impact on meat and egg quality and quantity.
   • Organize on farm demonstration for participants.
5. Health management
   • Selection of feed.
   • Key biosecurity risks, causes, impact on production, symptoms, prevention and curative measures
   • Appropriate use of antibiotics.
6. Maintenance of farm equipment, building, and environment (including waste management)
   • Key equipment required for efficient farm management, their uses and maintenance of sheds.
   • How to effectively manage poultry waste.

b) ToT to 25 members of Yehu staff and 2 members of Tiwi Chicken Farm in business and financial literacy including personal finance training.

1. Utilizing savings and credit

• Engage with participants to understand their sources of savings and credit and its utilization.
• Train them on various saving options available, qualification requirements and key benefits. Process to avail them.
• Training on available sources of credit, how to evaluate various credit options and how to use credit effectively.

2. Simple budgeting and calculating profit

• Train participants on calculating activity costs and profitability.
• Provide training on how to calculate simple cash flow-based profitability and return on investment for each production cycle.
• Provide training on how maintain simple farm records.
• Provide templates for basic bookkeeping.
• Engage with participants to understand how they budget their cash flows.
• Provide training on simple budgeting techniques and how these help in planning for expenditures, cash management and credit requirements.
• Provide simple budgeting templates.

3. Banking electronically

• Engage to understand if participants have knowledge or experience with mobile banking, if any.
• Train participants on how to access mobile banking services, payment methods, how to ensure security of their transactions and key benefits of using mobile banking.

c) ToT to 25 members of Yehu staff and 2 members of Tiwi Chicken Farm on Gender.

• Understanding and application of key concepts related to Gender Action Learning Systems.
• GALS Principles, Key feature and Methodology
• Community Action Learning
• Participatory Gender Review
• Knowledge and skills to map gender and power issues in rural households, livelihoods and value chains.
• Gender action learning skills and tools to enable target households in target communities to collect and analyse information necessary to understanding and changing the gender relations.
• Knowledge and skills to apply participatory visual diagramming tools that are used for visioning, analysis, change planning and tracking by individuals, households and community institutions.
• Sustainable integration of GALS in rural livelihoods and community development process.

d) Develop capacity building curriculums that will be delivered to Yehu staff and TIWI staff on climate- resilient poultry farming best practices, business and financial literacy including personal finance training and gender training.

• A training manual considering each component are produced as well as teaching tools and monitoring tools.
• A specific document on GALS methodology is available for the YEHU Staff and Tiwi Chicken farm.
• Participants are provided with teaching tools to help them multiply these trainings.
• Participants are provided with support/monitoring tools to enable them to track the levels of beneficiaries.

Qualifications

1. Poultry farming expert

   • A master’s degree, or equivalent, in poultry science, agricultural economics, environmental management, or other related fields. A University degree in poultry science, agricultural economics, environmental management, or other related fields, combined with relevant professional experience can be considered.
   • Proven experience in integrating climate change adaptive measures with smallholder poultry farmers.
   • Prior experience with conducting training program for smallholder farmers in the poultry farming sector is a must.
   • Prior experience of working with women farmers is a must.
   • Strong verbal and written communication skills in English; ability to communicate in the relevant local languages would be a strong asset.

2. Business and Financial Literacy

   • Be an expert with over 10 years of experience in the field of financial literacy in the developing world.
   • Experience and good understanding of agricultural economics is a must.
   • Prior experience in organizing trainings for women.
   • (vii)Strong verbal and written communication skills in Kiswahili and English; ability to communicate in the relevant local languages would be a strong asset.

3. Gender Action Learning System

   • Demonstrated experience of successfully designing and conducting trainings on GALS.
   • Having successfully completed at least 5 trainings on Gender of similar scale.
   • Having a pool of technical experts and trainers (who have more than 10 years of experience of designing and conducting trainings) available in the area of Gender, Value Chain Development and participatory/community development.
   • Have adequate knowledge and understanding about local and regional gender-dynamics as well as understanding of context related to culture, security, rural livelihood opportunities and challenges for women.

   Deliverables

• Inception report and a monthly training plan;
• Detailed training course curriculum for all the 3 components;
• A specific document on GALS methodology;
• Monitoring tools and teaching tools;
• Draft training manual of course materials for all the 3 components;
• Monthly training and follow up of progress reports;