Global Whole Being Fund Report

With Funding of Global Whole-being Fund through Cohere, AFID is implementing a 10-month food security and nutrition programme in Rwamwanja Refugee settlement, Kamwenge district, Uganda, entitled: Sustaining food security and Nutrition through Innovative Fish Farming Solutions Programme.

The project aims to generate meaningful economic benefits by accompanying local farmers and community members create self -employment opportunities by providing seed capital (principally fishlets) to 30 community farmers engaged in fish farming, and further implement a fish farming programme designed to maximize production efficiency while maintaining environmental balance. It is being achieved through the implementation of efficient breeding, feeding, and harvesting practices. The focus is on optimizing the growth cycle of fish species best suited to local conditions, ensuring a consistent and reliable supply for market demands. Advanced monitoring technologies are used to maintain optimal water quality and fish health, ensuring the production process remains sustainable and efficient. 

In this project our beneficiaries are 30 community farmers, principally poor refugees without employment nor survival business. They are being provided with trainings and continuous coaching to engage in fish farming and improve their community or personal projects. So far, only 6 were reached with fishlets from our general fish pond for their dug fish bond in the first three months of distribution. Generally their projects are in good progress.   

Enhancing community ownership is a strategy and goal that contributes to considerably economize important resources. Firstly, the establishment of a fish bond serving as general point for provision to the communities is one of the most successful activities and biggest achievements owned by the communities. The communities highly engaged partner with AFID to monitor and watch over the fish ponds, enrolling the people in need of seeds and continue to maintain the site clean, safe and improved security. AFID has been able to save more than 70% of incentives budgeted for casual labor that it allocated to fund other activities through engaging the community members. In the first six months the project expects to provide important number of fishlets to over 20 fish farmers with ready fish ponds, instead of 9 months envisaged in the project plan. Secondly, the sustainability plan is already ensured, as the community members, especially engaged fish farmers established a committee to share responsibilities for the management and protection of the general fish pond served for provision.