Project

Project objectives

The Pig for Pikin project is focused on providing local communities of Lower Fungom with skills and assets that can be used to generate income sufficient to guarantee that good education is given to local children. 

• Objective 1: Capacity building: livestock and piggery management, including financial aspects of the work of livestock managers.
• Objective 2: Generation of income through pig farming
• Objective 3: Improve schools and pay regular salaries to PTA teachers working in Lower Fungom

Project outcomes

Amongst the many different proposals we have heard about, we think that the most promising is to support the development of local pig farming involving high-yield breeds of pigs that are already well-adapted to local environment and that can generate more income through trade than other breeds. So the project outcomes are as follows:

• establishment of 2 high-standard and fully functional pig pens in Lower Fungom, each managed collaboratively by a group of villages through their trained farmers. Each pig pen will have to reach self-sustainability in 1 year’s time of activity.
• Trained farmers will train other villagers to the same task, including also financial and administrative skills. This process of knowledge transfer will be duly monitored by ReIgnite Action for Development, the Monitoring and Evaluation partner to this project.

Project final outputs

• successful training of 1 farmer per village through an intensive 3-week course (delivered in Bambui by teachers at the National Polytechnic Bambui in September-October 2015);
• construction of 2 pig pens in locations that facilitate collaborative management by groups of villages through their trained farmers;
• 6 to 10 high-yield breed pigs established in each of the 2 pig pens for local reproduction ;
• medicines and vaccines for piglets;
• other assistance as needed to make sure the piglets thrive in Lower Fungom;
• establishing continued successful cooperation between villages.