The Chairman of OSIEPE – Mr Hezekiah Omenda recently reminded the members and guests at our End-of-year Party that “There are very few organizations in the development space who can support a CBO in the way Heifer International has for OSIEPE – They took time to study our approach to empowerment and structured their support to align with our priorities and calendar of work. We are greatly indebted to them and look forward for even more mutually beneficial engagement”.
HI has partnered with OSIEPE on, among others:
- Training on management of CBOs/cooperatives
- Exposure/exchange/benchmarking trips to dairy farms in other counties including Kiambu and Vihiga Counties
- Joint hosting of farmer field day
- In partnership with ILRI – AVCD hosting of County Dairy Breeding Stakeholder consultation
- Training and continued support of Peer farmer Trainers (PFTs) who continue to offer training of OSIEPE members of non-members on dairy value chains, fodder establishment and other issues
We sincerely thank HI-Kenya and specifically Mr George Ochuodho for his steadfast support, patience and providing a listening ear to OSIEPE. We offer our burgeoning organisational capacity development lessons and experience to HI’s other initiatives in supporting other farmer organisations. OSIEPE has put in place mechanisms to scale up the lessons learnt and mentor and coach other organisations to spread the lessons, technologies and resources accruing from our partnership with HI. We look forward to even more beneficial partnerships for empowerment, increased incomes, social capital and environmental sustainability.