Mvule Community Development - Naibowa

Visit by Alex Walyomu on 2021-10-13

Report ID
14433
Created by
Alex Walyomu
Created date
2021-10-14 12:00:00 UTC
Modified by
Alex Walyomu
Modified date
2021-10-15 07:17:17 UTC
Trip Time
10:38-18:42 (8 h 4 m)
Village Time
12:43-15:52 (3 h 9 m)
Travel Time
4 h 55 m

Mvule Community Development lesson

How Many Men Attended
How Many Women Attended
Staff Attendees
Walyomu Alex 
Government Attendees
LC1 
Visitor Attendees
 
Total Attendance
Program
Mvule Community Development 
Lesson Taught
community meeting 
Notes
Alex met with the community leaders of Naibowa village to discuss about the impact of the kibo group activities in their village with mainly the Mvule community development program. A group of 58 community members received goats from kibo group back in 2014. The chairman of the group of people who received the goats, Henry told Alex that after the members received the goats, some people saw it as a personal reward from Kibo group and decided to do as they wanted and stopped attending the meetings which gave some people room to sale off their goats quickly. Out of the group of people that received goats from kibo group, only 10 people gained and got cows out of a goat they received from kibo group. The group became disorganized for quite some time until they had to remember that working together as a community was the only way to fight poverty. Their registration certificate with the government had expired when a community development officer (CDO) visited them in the year 2018 to evaluate their activities. This made them miss out on an opportunity that had come at that time from the government. They started to reorganize themselves once again and they started with an activity to save money together and help each other in times of death and happiness. In Naibowa, the community leaders told Alex that besides livestock, the other main activity in the village is farming and the youths involve themselves in brick making. This evaluation exercise is helping us to understand the impact created in the village out of the goats kibo group gives to people and also research about some other community potentials to help us plan for the future. Out of the three evaluation exercises conducted, there has been some successes registered mostly at a household level but also there are challenges that we have to address in the future for the villages that kibo group gives goats. There should more strict bylaws set by the community and kibo group to restrict community members from just selling off the goats any how immediately they have received from kibo group because it losses the purpose of giving goats to communities. 
Next Visit
2022-01-26 - Purpose: Follow up on the community activities being carried out by the village residents.
Program Success
There was some success registered in the community in regard to community development program
Program Critical Needs
There is need for the community to encourage themselves to work together and explore more projects to do as a community
Program Ownership
The members that begun with the program about 10 years ago have remained together and now engaging in other activities like saving money together for their personal needs.
Other Program Observations
The WASH program is one that the village still appreciate kibo group for extending it to their community as this created a very big impact in the whole community.
Program Expected Of Village
The village leaders to continue mobilizing all the community members to attend kibo group meetings for the active kibo programs in the village and keep the standards of all the other completed kibo programs
Program Staff Preparations Next Visit
To keep in close touch with the community leaders reminding them of their roles and responsibilities.