Eastern Africa Farmers Federation
outreach to members
Goretti Gachagua
Eastern Africa Farmers Federation
FAO-ILRI Regional Training Workshop on Proven Livestock
Technologies, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 3-5 December 2018

Outline of presentation
• About EAFF & EAFF membership.
• What are the Key achievements of EAFF?
• How you get information to members
• What activities does the EAFF conducts quarterly or
annually.
• What activities does the EAFF member associations
conducts for the benefit of members (monthly,
quarterly or annually)
• What are the means by which members are trained?

ABOUT US
EAFF Vision
A Prosperous and Cohesive Farming
Community in Eastern Africa
Currently (> 20 million farmers)
10 countries; 22 apex organizations
Our scope is the Eastern Africa –
Membership scope in EAC; COMESA
& IGAD….
-Producer co-operatives;
- Commodity Associations;
-Women organizations;
-Lobby & advocacy based ;
• Launched in 2001 - operations from
2005
• Members are producers of crops;
livestock; fisheries & Agroforestry

MEMBERS
1. Kenya : KENAFF (KLMC); CAK, KLPA
2. Uganda: UNFFE; UCA, NUCAFE
3. Tanzania: MVIWATA; TFC, ACT, ZNFU
4. Rwanda: IMBARAGA; INGABO; NCCR
5. DRCongo: FOPAC(SYDIP; COOCENKI); LOFEPACO; CONAPAC
6. Burundi: CAPAD
7. Ethiopia: Oromia Coffee; Oromia Pastoral asso.
8. Eritrea: NCEW
9. Djibouti: Djibouti Agro-pastoral Association
10. South Sudan- South Sudan National Agriculture Producers . - SSNAP

12/24/2018
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EAFF pillars

information flow to members
EAFF
NFO
LFO

12/24/2018
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DNGO to enterprise model

What activities does the EAFF
conducts quarterly or annually.
• Lobbying and advocacy: budget readings, EAC, IGAD,
R&D etc.
• Trade and agribusiness: linkage to markets, financial
inclusion (loans, insurance)
• Knowledge transfer: documentation, social media,
trainings, conferences
• Institutional development: youth and women in
agriculture, Organizational Capacity Assessments,
planning and budgeting etc.

Re-orientation of service provision....
Direct economic services
• 1.brokerage services - ID buyers ;
matchmaking; negotiation; contracts
• 2.Policy/ finances favoring
…..Agriculture
• 3. Promotion of collective marketing
• 4.Processing/ value addition/ credit
for….investments for
• 5..Advisory services and extension
• 6. Accountability towards members
Indirect /support services
1.Information services
2.Wshops on general Capacity devpt &
training
3. General Lobbying and advocacy
5. Farmer mobilization…for position on?
6. Accountability towards development
partner & less to members

What are the means by which
members are trained?
- Classroom training; workshop setting
- Field training – during members own activities e.g.
when they are having their own meetings.
- Learning visits
- Provision of reading materials.
- Monitoring and evaluation

EAFF achievements
• Estimated direct impact is about 75849 farmers, the
indirect reach is about 2.5 million famers through
policies
• 3.5M farmers received mobile extension services and
12,548 on climate smart agricultural practices
• The cumulative reach is about 6.08 million famers ,
both in and out of EAFF membership

Cont’
Strategic Goal 1
 About 54 MOUs signed by EAFF and NFOs
 EAFF seats in 30 steering committees
 2.5 million famers impacted directly by policies
proposed by EAFF
Strategic Goal 2
 Growth in number of website visits with an average
annual traffic growth of 106%.
 15 knowledge management platform to share
lessons learned with the stakeholders
 Data for value chain actors for six priority
commodities

Cont’
Strategic Goal 3
 75849 farmers reported active participation in
inputs and outputs market
 13 farmer organizations linked with market
actors
Strategic Goal 4
 E-granary limited company has been set up
 All Secretariat staff undertaking various
capacity development trainings (professional
courses and advances degrees)
 Capacity development of 13 NFOs conducted
on Leadership and Governance, project
implementation, finance and procurement

Expectations
1. Move atleast 20% of members from farm gate to
bulking through virtual aggregation (prototype
almost ready) by 2020…
2. Ensure the policy environment supports our
endeavours
3. Develop strategic partnerships that will position
the farmers as strong & credible VC actors
4. Make EAFF a knowledge Hub

Thank you
CONTACTS: info@eaffu.org; www.eaffu.org
rhapta road – westlands; Nairobi;
Tel: +254 20 445 1691
.