Recoda

History: The organization was started in 2000 as a company limited by guarantee. She offered consultancy services to different stakeholders in the areas of Project cycle management (project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment. Also on Organizational capacity development: - Making strategic plans, organizational capacity assessment etc). Later RECODA from 2003 started pilot project under the funding of PULS and in 2006, started research on poverty alleviation under the funding of Rockwool Foundation – Denmark. In 2013, she produced the first version of the manual on Rural Initiatives for Participatory Agricultural Transformation – RIPAT. The goal of RECODA is to bridge technology gap in community development through enhanced productivity and crop value chains emanating from sensitization for mind-set change and community mobilization to utilize locally available resources and opportunities for self-reliance in livelihoods improvement. Specific objectives • To improve livelihoods and resilience of small-scale farmers by fighting multi-faceted problems of poverty, environmental degradation and food and nutrition insecurity. • To instil social entrepreneurship skills to development actors, lead farmers and fresh graduates. • To advocate for favourable changes in development policy and practice. • To undertake socio-economic research and provide diverse management and development consultancy services. • To document and disseminate findings and scale up in a user-friendly manner. Activities: - Implementation of community economic development projects using the RIPAT approach - Training of university students and graduates on community development - Undertaking socio-econimic research - Capacity building of various stakeholders