TRAINING PROJECT PROPOSAL

1. Project Summary

Project Name HARNESSING THE POTENTIAL FOR BEES TO HEALTHY LIVING

AND INCREASED LIVELIHOODS
Project Location LOODARIAK, KAJIADO WEST
Country Kenya
Project value and Financing: 4,901,600.00
all prices and costs are in Kenya Shillings.
Beneficiaries (Direct and indirect) INTASHAT (Kimuka, Ilngarooj, Olosho Oibor, Olasiti and Saikeri)
Project Summary The objectives of the project are as follows

1. Empower women economically through bee keeping

2. Increase individual household incomes through sale of honey

3. Environmental conservation(reduce charcoal dependence as an income

source)

4. Use bees wax for candle making as an additional income source

Project Impact 1. Improved Food Security, livelihood and resilience of the vulnerable
community (Agro pastoralists and Pastoralists) against effects of climate
change in Kajiado West.
2. Increased community participation in environmental protection by
initiating sustainable source of income

3. Increased enterprise development among the Masai women through honey

processing and other products

Project Outcomes/Outputs: Outcome:

 Increased environmental conservation awareness; food security status of
2,500 vulnerable households using immediate and long term sustainable
livelihood interventions.
The key project outputs are :
 Better understanding of relationship between trees and bees
 Women ownership of environmental intervention measures
 Increased awareness of climate change and effects on livelihoods.
 Development of enterprise among women in Masai communities
 1000 Women are capacity built and supported on alternative livelihoods.
Implementing Partner Office of the Women Representative Kajiado County
Sector Climate change and food security
Physical address OFFICE OF THE WOMEN REPRESENTATIVE KAJIADO COUNTY
Bank Details.

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2. Strategic Framework

PEJMENA strategy is in line with the Government of Kenya’s and global strategies and goals. It
strongly supports the Government’s Vision 2030 and Millennium Development Goals. The priority
of the training programme is to improve life and ensure proper management of water resources by
empowering and supporting the marginalised and vulnerable communities to acquire capacity to
address issues that affect them. The training programme will not only address the immediate
causes of food insecurity but also build on structures to address the issue of unemployment and
cause to have agribusiness as a tool to increase enterprise development through capacity building
while also creating mechanisms for better management of water resources within the community.
This training programme will target to respond to issues that have both a short term and long term
responses. It will give the community capacity to effect interventions that will enable them meet
both short term and long term social and economic needs. Rehabilitation through targeted training
has a long term development aim to not only enable communities build on what they already have,
but also to build the capacity of the poor in the community to enable them to take responsibility for
their own development needs – to make a sustainable impact on poverty.
Through work already done by Ewaso Ngiro South Development Authority, Intashat community
has a springboard from which we are able to implement a training programme on water
sustainability, livelihoods development through agribusiness and food security.
PEJMENA is thus dedicated and committed to building community livelihoods through direct
training programmes with support from Ewaso Ngiro South Development Authority to positively
contribute towards improving the living standards and conditions of those who really need it in
Intashat in Kajiado West.

Project Rationale
The impact of climate change is evident in all sectors of the economy, the Masai of INTASHAT
being agro pastoralists have been negatively affected by weather patterns that have destabilised
many households, many losing livestock as well as many seasons of planting without a harvest to
show for it.

The recurrent droughts and inadequate rainfall have made livestock rearing and especially pastoral
communities face the harshest realities, pastoralism is no longer sustainable.
The problem has also been exacerbated by land subdivision where land that was meant for grazing
is now being sub divided for sale thereby diminishing further land that was before used as stock
for grazing when drought set in.
The current ability of pastoralists to respond to drought is limited not only due to the increasing
frequency of drought, but also due to increasing population and a dwindling resource base and
conflict.

Experience suggests that the most effective way of providing aid is through protecting people’s
livelihoods. Livelihood interventions are defined as those that aim to protect or enhance livelihood
assets, strategies and outcomes; they can contribute to building resilience and addressing
vulnerability.
The current need for capacity building through training is meant to build community resilience and
encourage alternative interventions mechanisms that will spur increased economic activities
through improved agribusiness by protecting water resources within the community.

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Throughout the training programme continuous needs assessment will be done to identify other
areas that will be of priority to the community in addressing socio economic needs.
The training programme will directly contribute to the achievement of one of DfID’s key
humanitarian results, namely stabilising food security and protecting livelihoods through direct
contribution by building capacity and knowledge transfer.

PEJMENA will use an integrated approach in the training programme to ensure that the
interventions put across contribute to the long-term well-being of the Intashat community by
delivering sustainable outcomes in all training areas.

Stakeholder Analysis

The training programme will be implemented in close collaboration with Ewaso Ngiro South
Development Authority, Oloolaiser water and Sewerage Company as well as Oxfarm limited. The
Stakeholders will be involved in skill and knowledge impartation and implementation during and
after the training programme. Oxfarm will provide technical services in agribusiness production
and capacity building which will include linkages to markets.
The table below gives a summary of key stakeholders.
Summary of key stakeholders
Stakeholder Function Comparative Assistance to
Advantage PEJMENA

Oloolaiser  Operational  Technical  Provide synergy

Water & responsibility of the expertise and technical
Sewerage water resource. support
Company
Oxfarm Ltd  Agribusiness  Technical  Expert knowledge
development support knowhow in in agribusiness
services crop development&
 Market linkages management Linkages
Local  Resources – human and  Local technical  Goodwill
Communities financial planning and knowledge  Collaboration
implementation of  Adaptation to  Local technical
projects local knowledge in
 goodwill conditions solving problems
 Project/programme
sustainability
ENSDA  Centre for  Centre for  Coordination
collaborations and stakeholders’
coordination coordination
 Management &  Centre for
facilitation facilitation

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3. The project
Impact: Improved Food Security, proper water management skills, livelihoods improvement and
resilience of vulnerable communities (Agribusiness, Agro pastoralists and Pastoralists) using
sustainable interventions to improve food security, build thriving agribusiness enterprises and
counter effects of climate change.
Indicator: At least 70% of the targeted Households will be able to maintain their food security as a
result of programme activities.
 Outcome: Safeguards created to improve water management and sustainability among all
water users to reduce conflict using immediate and long term sustainable livelihood
interventions.

Output 1– Climate and environmentally friendly interventions in agro pastoralism through

training and post training support in Intashat.

Activities: farm visits to gather first-hand information and subsequent training in discussion
groups.
PEJMENA will work to ensure farmers are supported in information dissemination on best
practices, emerging threats to livestock rearing, water management techniques in growing fodder
and the opportunities available in improving viability of cattle rearing in a business model. The
input from the community is vital as they have first-hand experiences and the solutions must be
community driven to ensure ownership and continuity and will improve productivity at the long
run.

Indicator 01.
Target 1200 agro pastoralists for capacity & skill transfer training
 Provide the much needed support to the existing farmers in the targeted community(Intashat):
Use of extension officers from the Livestock Ministry is crucial in ensuring that there is
improved production through adoption of better rearing methods.
 The demand for hides & skins for the tanning factories (Ewaso Ngiro South Tanning factory)
should encourage better practices in cattle rearing to ensure high quality hides that will fetch
good prices.

Output 2 – Food Security and improved nutrition.

Activities: create clusters to harness group dynamics in agribusiness activities.

Indicator: 300 targeted households trained on farming techniques and adoption of traditional
vegetables for sale and to meet their basic needs.
 Increase bargain power and improve prices: farmer groups will be able to bargain for better
prices on crops grown.
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4. Training Beneficiary Analysis

The proposed training activities will directly benefit 1,400 households in Intashat and surrounding
communities, and this will also be specifically targeted at the most vulnerable in the community.
The beneficiaries will be identified through a participatory planning meeting with community
leadership and area chiefs in the project areas.

A selection criteria will be established by PEJMENA through consultation of individuals who hold
key responsibilities in the villages, local provincial administration, Other considerations will
include vulnerability, skills and potentiality to initiate and maintain continuity, trust and honesty,
gender and age, ethnic reflection, owning a farming activity, vulnerability of the household, type
of intervention the person is engaged or capable of doing.

The resident population of the location selected for the training project will indirectly benefit from
improved food, water and livestock support services. It is hoped that the interventions will reach
wider populations than those directly benefiting from the training programme.

5. Implementation Methodology

a) Community participatory integration approach: (CPIA)

Prior to implementation, PEJMENA will facilitate the community to come up with their own
action plan post training and prioritize the activities. The community being the major stake holder
will be given the chance to prioritise its needs. The training beneficiaries will be selected through a
well-structured, mutually agreed, and inclusive and gender sensitive criteria. They will then be
sensitized and made aware of the training project importance, community involvement and
ownership for sustainability.

Focus will also be placed on greater participation by women and the youth. This is with knowledge
of what roles women play in the community and the youth being the backbone of communities and
count as the segment in the population most affected by lack of opportunities to make a
living(employment and or enterprise activities)

b) Working in collaboration and partnership:

The training project will work in close collaboration with the Ewaso Ngiro South Development
Authority, Oloolaiser Water and Sewerage Company Limited and other private entities such as
Oxfarm limited and the Provincial administration (chiefs). These private entities will provide
services and capacity building on better farming methods, water management processes and other
specific business technical and management skills.

Capacity Building and Exchange visits:

PEJMENA will facilitate capacity building of the trainees to experience visits between & among
farmer groups in and outside the County (both livestock and agribusiness groups). These would

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provide a forum for information and experience sharing as well as enable individuals to learn from
best practices from their successful peers.

The methodologies will address the needs/ constraints and cultural values of the community
appropriately as the community structures and members together with other stakeholders will be
given an equal opportunity in decision making process. The methodologies and approaches will
empower the local structure with knowledge, skills and essential inputs hence ownership and
sustainability of the action during implementation and after the training project life.

The primary focus will be to increase and diversify sources of incomes among pastoral and
agribusiness communities with focus on sustainable sources by managing resources available to
them. The project will endeavour to build capacities of community to be able to cope with the
changing times orchestrated by Climate change; these would be realised through trainings and
making follow-ups to monitor and evaluate and come up with lessons that can be used to better
past failings. The aim of the training project will be to alleviate poverty, ensure practical water
management skills are transferred and reverse vulnerability to drought shocks thus promoting self-
reliance in economics, social and cultural needs.

Core Project activities will comprise of:-

1. Capacity Building.

The project will strive to build the capacities of community structures to be able to respond to
issues affecting them more appropriately and also introduction of alternative livelihood sources; all
these will be geared towards improving food security and building community resilience.

The primary focus will be to increase community focus on water management techniques, its
relationship to livelihood development and also diversify sources of incomes among pastoral
communities with focus on sustainable sources. The project will endeavour to build capacities of
community to be able to cope with the changing times orchestrated by Climate change; these
would be realised through trainings focused on those areas that are critical for community
empowerment.

11. Skills & Knowledge transfer.

Support to irrigated agriculture will be in form of providing access to firms that will assist in
market linkages. A ready market for products will help in reducing post-harvest losses and increase
sales of produce thereby ensuring higher earnings and profits to the farming community.
Community Capacity Building is intended to ensure that communities have the skills and
knowledge needed to plan for and cope with future livelihood shocks and inadequacies. The
capacity building will focus on initiatives by the community from participatory forums that will be
facilitated by PEJMENA and Oxfarm experts.

6. Project Management
PEJMENA will be responsible for the overall management, coordination and monitoring of the
training project even when using partners in the implementation. To ensure that sufficient

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management and monitoring/evaluation resources are available, PEJMENA will establish a

Training Project Management Team to ensure progress review.

a. Training Project Organogram

PEJMENA Head of
Programmes

Program
Quality/M&E

b.
Training Finance Livelihood &
Operations Capacity bld offcrs

b. Head of Programmes.

The head of programmes will be the lead and will be responsible for the oversight of all
programme activities, working closely with other project personnel to ensure activity
implementation is on track across the programme areas. Operations and finance will also be
involved. The team will maintain high-level relationships with all relevant stakeholders, in
particular with the target communities.

c. Program Quality and M&E

A continuous assessment where questionnaires are handed out after each day will be crucial to
capture trainees thoughts on what was passed to them and where they feel emphasis is needed.

This is therefore the reason we have this department in our company. We also feel post training
evaluation is necessary to assess impact of the training and areas where improvements are needed
in future.

d. Livelihood & capacity building

Our officers will lead the implementation, monitoring and quality assurance of the livelihood
activities of the training project. They are also assigned to design and implementation of livelihood
services and this will be essential in the training program. They are also equipped to ensure Gender
and Social Inclusion on work through project interventions.

The Programme quality head will have support from all departments and especially from the
livelihood and capacity building officers. Monitoring and evaluation is critical area post training, it
is from there that areas of improvement from lessons learnt can be captured.

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e. Media and Communication

PEJMENA will carry out this according to the funding requirement and guidelines, media and
communication as specified in the training project agreement documents. PEJMENA has also an
established communications team that will aim to produce communication materials including
photos, programme case studies, and facilitate media interviews to highlight our work.

7. Monitoring and Evaluation

The training project management team will have a significant monitoring and evaluation capacity,
with a monitoring and evaluation coordinator overseeing M&E during and after the training
programme in Intashat. They will be responsible for supporting the collection, analysis and sharing
of data across the programme areas. Data generated will be used to adjust programming activities
as needed to address any gaps or reduce overlaps as appropriate and strengthen future training
activities through lessons learnt.
8. Value for Money
As PEJMENA our focus is to deliver upon our promise to leave footprints that can be relied upon
to build on other programmes in the future. We are able to deliver in areas of food security and
livelihood interventions, and our existing staffs have requisite knowledge on the same.

PEJMENA will adopt performance budgeting that will focus on outcomes and high level outputs,
project staffs will also be engaged based on performance contracting with clear performance
indicators/mile stones.
PEJMENA will develop a devolved monitoring plan that focuses on short term indicators to allow
for timely review of the implementation progress.
The spending in the project will be justified according to the three concepts of economy, efficiency
and effectiveness (the“3Es”), which form a results chain below. VFM will be assessed at each of
the three stages, namely inputs, outputs and outcomes.
VFM in the results chain 

Economy- PEJMENA will ensure that the cost per unit of input (e.g. Project deliverables,
products, materials, transport, allowances & salaries) are minimised, or at least kept within
reasonable bounds.
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Efficiency- PEJMENA will uphold efficiency by ensuring that the cost per output (e.g. delivered
complete service or product, completed structure, person attended to, training schedule completed)
are minimised and kept within an acceptable range. This will be done in open and transparent
manner as strictly stipulated in PEJMENA procurement policy.
Effectiveness - The project management team will at all-time ensure that the intended outcome of
“water management and agribusiness development” is achieved within reasonable cost.
Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the outputs will be put into consideration in assessing
the effectiveness.
Budgeting - The costs of interventions are estimated using the current market rates and experience
from the previous projects implemented by PEJMENA in similar areas.
Cost-efficiency Analysis – PEJMENA will carry out cost benchmarking at the planning stage, this
process may be a signal to review features of the project which might subsequently be changed in
case of discrepancies between the unit costs of deliverables.
Overhead costs. PEJMENA has established budgetary ceilings for three categories of eligible
expenditure: direct costs, indirect administrative costs (maximum 7%), and operational support
costs (maximum 10% of direct costs).
9. Cross-cutting themes
Gender

Gender is mainstreamed in all PEJMENA interventions. The project staff will ensure the
participation of women and youth in training project activities as much as possible and as
appropriate. In all the programmes, PEJMENA recognises that the rights of the youth and women
are mutually reinforcing.

Environmental Impact

The activities planned for this training project will have least or no effect to the environmental.
More so, some of the programme activities such as training on water management and agribusiness
component are meant to promote best environmental and household practices.
PEJMENA in its training approach understand the importance of water management in relation to
climate change and its effects to community livelihood improvement. PEJMENA is committed to
be environment friendly and avoid harmful practices to the environment and is actively involved in
local forums to reduce environmental degradation. The pastoralist life style is challenged for
complex reasons but a key factor is the change in climate which makes rainfall scarcer. This
project is both responding to the impact of climate change and to building community capacity to
manage the impact, from grass root level.

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INTASHAT TRAINING BUDGET

Budget for Intashat Training Programme (Sponsored by Ewaso Ngiro South Development
Authority)
PEJMENA Ltd in partnership with
OXFARM ltd &Oloolaiser Water and
Sewerage Company
No. of Participants : 500
Batches : Will have training batches of 50 participants per training session
Training Duration: 10 days of 2 sessions daily(meant to cover olosho oibor, Kimuka, Olasiti, saikeri
and ilngarooj)
Sl. No Description Rate Amount `
25,000 100,000.00
Training Bag. ( 14” x 12” x 4” Nylon Bag ) 500/- x 50 1,500 6,000.00
participants= Pen 30/- x 50 participants=
01 Spiral pad. 100 Pages 100/- x 50 participants 5,000 20,0000.00
Marker Pen 150/- x 04 pens 600 600.00

Training Fees@5,000 for 6 facilitators a day for 10 days 5,000

02 300,000.00
Per day@5000 x 10 days
Travelling Allowance for Resource Persons Local 6,000
03 60,000.00
(Kshs 2000 x 03 RP x 10 days )
Travelling Allowance for Participants 300*500*
04 1,500,000.00
300 x 500 participants x 10 days (Approximate) 10
Training Hall charges 5,000 50,000.00
05 ( 5000 per day x 10 days) (Excluding Generator)
( 2000 per day x 10 days) (for Generator in case 20,000.00
2000
power fails)

LCD Projector, white screen 10,000 100,000.00

06 ( 10000 x 10 days)

08 4 Field visits@180,000 150,000 720,000.00

(helps to give training participants a better understanding of agricultural
practices and best practices being employed in water management)
09 Public awareness materials and barazas 20,000*4 80,000.00
10 Communication allowance 500*4*10 20,000.00
11 Accommodation(PEJMENA staff at the training area) 3500*10 35,000.00
3500*10
12 Post training evaluation 450,000 250,000.00
13 Incidental costs 240,000 140,000.00
TOTAL 4,901,600.00
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Budget Narrative

PEJMENA operates in accordance with international accounting and procurement procedures.

Financial monitoring and compliance with internal and external funding requirements are
conducted on a monthly basis. PEJMENA conducts a programme wide budget review; these
reviews identify any potential problems related to specific funds and allow for PEJMENA to take
the necessary corrective action.
Project Management: This covers management, examining of training inputs and outcomes as
well as office running costs and final evaluation costs associated with PEJMENA overall
management of the project.
Personnel: We have permanent staff working directly on the programme. Hiring support
personnel will be done for the duration of the training program. Staff as well as short term hired
staff will be paid a fixed allowance computed daily for the duration of the training program.

Hired premises: We will be having our trainings on hired premises which shall be paid for. This
has been factored in the costs too.
Workshops/training: included is training and workshops across all of the expected outputs. These
include materials, transport and other costs.
Monitoring and Evaluation: We shall have a mid-training review as well as a post training
review. A M&E exercise will thereafter be undertaken 2 months after the date the training ended to
assess improvements where needed.
Transport: We do not have transport of our own and we therefore will reimburse transport costs to
trainees as well as staff running day to day errands in support of the training program.
CONCLUSION.
We at PEJMENA Company limited are bound by our code of ethics and work principles to offer
value for money and trainings that has been tailor made to meet the needs of communities we work
with.
We strive to leave lasting impact that bring the best out of those we come into contact with,
because that is OUR WORK.

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