Our Projects
Marianne Foundation often consults other organizations and offers a variety of trainings on a contractual basis throughout our community. We are constantly starting new projects and enjoy continuing to collaborate with other community organizations.
Contact us at contact@marianne-foundation.org or via WhatsApp at +256 768595811 for ways to partner with us!
Check out some of our projects below.
Current Project: Community Resilience to Climate Change
Promoting Resilience
Marianne Foundation for Youth Development is dedicated to intersectional community sustainability.
Supported by the Ministry of Water and Environment, MFYD is implementing a program to restore degraded forests to enhance ecosystem resilience and
train local community groups in alternative livelihoods to enhance community resilience to climate change.
Restoration of the forests and training of local communities in alternative livelihoods will be done in collaboration with local community leaders, district, and MWE technical staff. We will develop recommendations to inform policy makers at local and national levels related to local community restoration needs, appropriate restoration approaches, and prioritizing inclusiveness of men and women to increase success of programs.
We are currently working with local farmer groups in the Ibanda, Kamwenge, and Kitagwenda districts.
Diversity of Enterprise
The alternative livelihood projects include beekeeping enterprises, development and use of energy-saving stoves, coffee establishment and management, piggery and goat rearing, and dairy cattle production and management.
Over 700 individuals have participated across all districts!
42.8% of all participants were women.
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned
1) Stakeholder involvement at all levels of project implementation is key towards the efficient implementation of the project.
2) Profiling farmer groups to understand group dynamics and diversity of economic activities helps with appropriate enterprise selection
3) Linkages with previous government livelihood programs is effective in creating sustainable interventions that are hinged on government’s plans and priorities.
4) Engaging technical staff like CDOs, sub-county Chiefs, Agriculture and Veterinary Officers is critical in creating a sustainable support system towards the farmer groups.
Past Projects
Agriculture Training
Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training
Solid Rock and ACTS For Water
With partnership from Hope Seeds Inc, Day3Seeds and the Lutheran Church of Uganda, over 120 women in Ibanda district were trained in vegetable growing, value addition and nutrition! Many seeds were freely distributed and we are grateful to the partners who paid for these seeds.
Solid Rock and ACTS For Water
Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training
Solid Rock and ACTS For Water
Marianne Foundation was hired by Solid Rock Consulting to carry out a skills training in Isingiro and Ibanda Districts, funded by ACTS For Water. Marianne Foundation conducted a needs assessment in each community, and soon will be conducting skilling workshops in soap making, brick making, and reusable pad making. All beneficiaries will also participant in our entrepreneurship training.
Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training
Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training
Kagiira Farm + MFYD Skills Training
In July 2022, Marianne Foundation partnered with Kagiira Farm in Ibanda to conduct a day long training event inviting women from all VSLA groups to participate in training in piggery, poultry, and strawberry farming. Over 500 women participated!
Rwamwanja Settlement Skills Training
Amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time, refugee camps have become
overcrowded faster than ever. For those displaced inside these camps, concerns like the spread of
disease, access to basic needs and survival consume daily life. With unprecedented post
COVID-19 challenges, refugees require urgent comprehensive programs to enhance their
livelihoods.
Being a women or young girl in a refugee camp exacerbates these concerns. Reports documented by several human rights commissions and multilateral organizations have proved it time and again. Challenges of early marriage, unemployment and water and sanitation in the temporary roofed shelters can make daily life a struggle.
Marianne Foundation focuses on teenagers living within the Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement under our Women's Skills Center program. We empower them with skills such as tailoring and garment cutting, making crafts etc. These skilling initiatives are are supported with sewing machines as method to start self-employment.
This project is not currently being implemented.
Program Management, Monitoring & Evaluation Workshop
In partnership with Ibanda University
Our public health consultants, Clare Killian and Carly Cote, facilitated a week long workshop in program management, monitoring and evaluation utilizing reflexive participation education, whereby the students utilized Marianne Foundation program areas to apply course concepts. All participants were awarded certificates of completion upon the end of the course.
We hope to be able to provide this course again in the future so stay tuned!
