WADFA empowers communities in their own social development programs through trainings in livelihoods, sustainable farming and Environmental conservation.

Our services: 

• Environmental conservation.
• Sustainable farming.
• Skills empowerment.
• Financial management through Village saving and loans associations.
• Market linkages.
• Gender and advocacy.
• Supported farmers in value addition (fruits, coffee and vegetable).
• Women empowerment.
• Health awareness and education.

Practices promoted:

1. Integrated crop husbandry and improved agronomic practices.

2. Appropriate water harvesting techniques.
   – water tanks, soak pits, underground water ponds.

3. Soil and water conservation.
   – maintain soil cover (mulching carver cropping, minimum tillage, application of organic manure, green manure, biochar.

4. Integrated livestock management.
   – Proper waste management and nutrient recycling, observe carrying capacity, optimal soil cover.

5. Integrated pest and disease management.
   – Companion planting, organic concoction, field tools hygiene, timely planting.

6. Appropriate post harvesting handling.
   – granaries, storage pest management.

7. Early warning systems and disaster risk reduction strategies.
   – season forecast, utilization of indigenous knowledge.

8. Compound gardening techniques.
   – kitchen gardens, sack molding, box, tire, pole/vertical gardens.

9. Use of energy saving technologies
   – stoves, briquettes and clean energy options e.g biogas and solar.

10. Integrated Natural resource management.
    – Agroforestry and woodlot
    – Farmer Managed Natural regeneration

We also do support farmers with water harvesting technologies through construction of water tanks, support farmers with bio gas plants as way of conserving the environment. We work with Small holder farmers, Women, Youth, Vulnerable children, Elderly, Disabled.

(New Project): Improving WADFA’s vertical and horizontal coordination through strengthening appropriate structures and holding efficiency and effectiveness meetings with support from THE CIVIL SOCIETY IN UGANDA SUPPORT PROGRAMME (CUSP) Under GIZ.
The overall goal of the project: To enable bottom-up approach, increased representation of opinions and increased members’ participation in the activities of association and allocation of members to areas of professional interest and expertise.