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Every project we publish carries the same four facts: where it ran, when, who funded it, and what it left behind. Anything we cannot state that way does not go on this page.
Smart gardening at Sabon Gari
A smart gardening farm established with women's groups in Mubi North, producing cucumber, maize and vegetables on plots designed for efficient water use. The programme paired planting inputs with training in climate-smart technique, and closed with harvest going to household nutrition and local market sale.
The plots were laid out for efficient water use rather than maximum area, and the groups running them were trained alongside the equipment being delivered, the two together rather than one and then the other. At close, the harvest went in two directions: household nutrition first, and the surplus to local market sale that funds the following season.
- Location
- Sabon Gari, Mubi North
- Region
- Adamawa State, Nigeria
- Period
- 2024 – 2025
- Status
- Concluded
- Thematic area
- Smart agriculture
Delivered with
- Federal Government of Nigeria
- U.S. Department of State
- UNICEF
How we run a project
Four steps, in order, every time
Inquiry
We start by asking, and by counting. Field assessment establishes what a community reports needing and what the data independently shows, including where those two disagree.
Design
A programme is designed against those findings with the people who will run it, sized to what can realistically be sustained once external funding ends.
Delivery
Inputs, training and support are delivered together. Equipment without capability, or capability without equipment, produces a photograph rather than an outcome.
Handover
The structures created, from groups and committees to routes to market, pass to the community holding them, and the result is documented so the next programme starts better informed.
Scope
What we deliver against
Projects are commissioned within these thematic areas. Each links to what the work involves in practice.
- Livelihood and economic empowermentEnterprise, capital and training for households
- Protection and social reintegrationSafeguarding, and a route back into community life
- Gender equality and social inclusionWho a programme reaches, and who it misses
- Peacebuilding and social cohesionMediation, dialogue and cohesion between groups
- Advocacy and policy influencingCommunity evidence carried into policy rooms
- Monitoring, evaluation, research and learningEvidence that shapes programme design
- Public healthHealth systems, disease and access
- Climate changeAdaptation, mitigation, resource management
- Smart agricultureData-driven, climate-smart farming
- Counter wildlife traffickingEnforcement, community action, conservation
- Combating illegal miningEnforcement, remediation and safer livelihoods
- EducationTeacher training, curriculum and skills
- Promotion of mineral resources investment and tradeResponsible investment and formal mineral trade
More projects are being added to this record as their documentation is completed. We publish a project once we can state its location, period, funder and outcome, not before.
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We work with institutions, funders and government on field research, programme design and delivery.