PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR THE YEAR 2021

Submitted By:

December 4th , 2020

 GENERAL INFORMATION

 NAME OF ORGANIZATION: NEED Sierra Leone (Network for

Educational and Environmental Development
Sierra Leone)

 ADDRESS: 1 Bo Road, Moyamba, Southern Province,

Sierra Leone.

 CONTACT PERSON: Amara Alpha Vandi

 DESIGNATION: Program Manager

 MOBILE: +232 31 511 445

 EMAIL: [email protected]

 PROJECT TITLE: Building Rural Women Livelihood for

Sustainable Economic Empowerment.

 PROJECT LOCATION: Korgbora, Kaiyamba and Bagruwa Chiefdoms,

Moyamba District, Sierra Leone.

 DURATION OF THE PROJECT: Twelve (16) Months (January 2021 –

April 2022)

 TOTAL COST OF THE PROJECT: US $ 19,974 (Le 191,809,362)

 1.0 SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF MOYAMBA
DISTRICT:

Moyamba District where the project is to be implemented is located in the

south- western part of Sierra Leone. It is the largest district in the Southern
Province with Moyamba Town being it’s headquarter town and covers an area
of 6,902 square kilometres with an estimated population of 318,064 in the
2015 census.
The district is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west; Port Loko and
Tonkolili Districts in the North; Bo and Bonthe Districts in the east and south
respectively making it a cosmopolitan district. The district comprises
fourteen (14) chiefdoms, six (6) parliamentarian constituencies and twenty
four (24) Local Council wards. The main ethnic groups are Mende, Sherbro,
Temne and Loko.
The District is one of the worst affected districts for poor food consumption
and chronic malnutrition, with more than 40% children recently surveyed
found to suffer from chronic malnutrition. Although the district has
substantial agricultural and other resources, ten years of civil war, Ebola war
and COVID-19 pandemic have all severely affected food security. 84% of
rural households in Sierra Leone have been unable to produce or purchase
sufficient food over the past year due to economic depletion, resulting in the
use of negative coping strategies such as borrowing money, early marriage,
prostitution and unsustainable use of natural resources, such as logging and
discriminate charcoal burning.

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2.0 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF
PURPOSE:
NEED Sierra Leone is a registered, not for profit, non-political, non-religious
and non-tribal Community Based Organization located in Sierra Leone formed
as a result of increase in the poverty trend in Sierra Leone especially in the
Rural setting which is deeply entrenched in economic depletion with more than
75% living below the national poverty line with rare possibility of making less
than US$1.2 per day which cannot meet the daily household living. These
conditions of poverty and lack of education have been a trigger that fuel social
unrest, domestic violence against women and girls, teenage pregnancy, rape,
child mothers, abandoned and street children, prostitution, or crimes as the
only options for survival.
NEED Sierra Leone is therefore formed in order to address these problems
of poverty and illiteracy and transforms it into hope through education and
self-regenerative climate resilient agriculture that will leads to poverty
alleviation of the poor. Since access to food is an extreme necessity and
proven need in Sierra Leone that will create the requisite equilibrium for
sustainable development, peace, and livelihood. It’s the issue and objectives
which NEED Sierra Leone is ready to address and achieved through this
Project together in order to close disparities between the rural and urban
communities by promoting food self-sufficiency, human rights, empowering of
grassroots development, education, mobilizing the efficiency of community
schemes, regenerative agricultural programs and enhancing the collective
participation in the use of innovative approaches that build a solution to the
need of economic empowerment.

The NEED Sierra Leone programs have a culture of actively networking with
sister related organizations at home and abroad. Your interest and support
empower the organization to continue its community and economic
independence works for the improvement of people’s living conditions.
MAIN PRINCIPLES:

The main principles of NEED-Sierra Leone is non-tribal, non-political and non-

religious with zero tolerance to corruption in all its project implementation.
This organization is managed by a management team of staff/volunteers who
work as a body to foster peace, unity and development in communities, for the
alleviation of poverty among the grassroots of which they see themselves as
part of their transformation for the achievement of sanity, tolerance and
dignity for self- reliance through:
 Working in collaborative partnership with the relevant
stakeholders.
 Training and non-violence community empowerment initiatives.
 Promoting the rights and interest of disadvantaged people.
3.0 PROJECT JUSTIFICATION:

There is so much concern about the persistent rise in the cost of living as well
as the most recent plummeting country’s economy. This economic challenge
has led these vulnerable women including girls to bankruptcy and have resulted
in their ruin with a clear evidence of gender-differentiated impact on all
dimensions of food security and diminished access to livelihood thereby
triggering increased levels of gender-based violence and abuse against these
women and girls due to isolation, food and financial insecurity which have
resulted to high hunger rate hindering their economic independence thereby
leaving them with the option of becoming beggars, vulnerable to prostitution,
drop-outs, and abandoning or neglecting their children because they are
unable to meet the daily living of their households. Agriculture which is the
backbone of their households’ economy and livelihoods has been strongly
affected by the pandemic. Therefore, there is need to support these
vulnerable women with a sustainable and regenerative agri-food value chains
cultivation that will build their economic independence and also complement
the effort of strengthening gender-based violence response as they are
single parents now breadwinners of their households and family struggling to
make ends meet.

This languish and impoverish condition of these women actually trigger off
the necessity of this project as evidence according to Moyamba District
Council Development and Hunger 2020 Mid-Year Assessment shows
households’ food deficit of over 63% and the food costs account for over 95%
of their household expenditures. To enhance the economic independence of
these women for breaking the cycle of poverty, this project will embark on
climate resilient agriculture through the cultivation of CASSAVA a climate
resilient crop that absorbs Carbondioxide from the atmosphere and
processes the Carbon to a major staple carbohydrate food. Since it takes
longer time to mature, it will be grown with PEANUT/GROUNDNUT, a
nutritious legumes that fixes atmospheric nitrogen and contribute to soil
quality which leads to positive and sustainable environmental benefits and a
significant source of healthful fats, proteins and fibres.
With your intervention and support, NEED Sierra Leone can reach and achieve
more by breaking the poverty cycle through agriculture as a need, because
this initiative gear towards a design to ease the burden of processing, create
value chain and markets for Cassava products and more importantly generate
wealth in local communities through quality and increased cassava production
by enabling them obtain access and empowerment to means of diversifying
food production, access to food and household income to alleviate economic
vulnerabilities and create the requisite equilibrium for empowerment and
sustainable livelihood together.
4.0 OVERALL OBJECTIVE:

To enhance food security and improve sustainable livelihoods systems among

the rural poor in Bagruwa, Kaiyamba and Korgbora Chiefdoms, Moyamba
District, Sierra Leone and also ease the burden of processing, create value
chain and markets for Cassava products and more importantly generate wealth
in local communities through quality and increased cassava production.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

 To increase the capacity of these vulnerable women farmers, girls and

youth farmers in Bagruwa, Kaiyamba and Korgbora Chiefdoms, Moyamba
District, Sierra Leone to become economically independence and more
self-reliant in food production in by December 2021.
 To enhance the capacity and increase productivity of women farmers
and youth farmers in agro- business through skills development in food
processing, marketing and basic business management in Bagruwa,
Kaiyamba and Korgbora Chiefdoms, Moyamba District, Sierra Leone by
December 2021
 To ease the burden of processing, create value chain and markets for
Cassava products through quality and increased cassava production
thereby break the cycle of poverty.

5.0 ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF CASSAVA CULTIVATION AND

PRODUCTION:
Cassava is one of the most popular meals in Sierra Leone but currently grown
by subsistence farming which cannot support livelihood and alleviate poverty
because of it insignificant cultivation scale. The most popular meals made out
of cassava in Sierra Leone are ‘garri’, and ‘foo foo’, which are common in many
West African countries because it contributes largely to the country’s Gross
Domestic Production (GDP) and serves as a major source of income to rural
farmers of which women are in high percentage.

Over the years, cassava has been transformed from being a “poor man’s” crop
to lucrative and an industrial crop, as it is now processed to products such as
starch, flour, glucose, ethanol and feeds for livestock. This transition has
increased the demand for this root crop that also could reduce unemployment
rate, alleviate poverty, and also a rich source of carbohydrates as the cassava
tuber is usually either boiled or eaten in raw form whiles the leaves are
popular delicacy in Sierra Leone, serves with several dishes.

Thousands of dollars can be made from the proceeds of the various end
products of Cassava if large cultivation areas are enhanced and Sierra Leone
cannot afford to be left behind amidst vast arable and fertile lands for it
 cultivation. Comparing the output of various crops in Sierra Leone, cassava
production is projected to stand the position to be ranked first in the next 5
years, followed by potato, and Rice production. Now that the President of
Sierra Leone urges citizens to diversify their food, NEED Sierra Leone as
cassava enthusiasts is in for an exciting time in Sierra Leone markets and
across Africa owing to its projected huge demand.

Therefore, within the next five years, huge opportunities abound for
investors in the sector with the initiative for achieving this based on a
transformation strategy that emphasize market penetration, collective
action, private sector participation, and research.

6.0 DIRECT AND INDIRECT PROJECT BENEFICIARIES:

Direct target beneficiaries will include Ninety (90) vulnerable women farmers
who will be organised into six (6) groups of three (3) cassava groups and three
(3) peanut/groundnut groups with current assumption of a minimum 5
members per household, bringing expected Direct Beneficiaries to 450
people. Note that, Production and processing activities of Cassava and
peanut/groundnut benefit the group member as well as the household, as it is
part of the project approach to involve the entire family not only heads of
households.
All available statistics demonstrate that women are poorer and have less of a
role in decision making than men at all levels. Subsistence farming and petty
trading are the major sources of their income with over 85% living on less
than US $1.2 a day.
The project therefore will benefit, in the long-term, to its overall population:
27,328 people, including about 15,451 women and the entire country’s 7.8
million population and more.

7.0 SELECTION CRITERIA FOR THE MAIN BENEFICIARIES:

Selection criteria for the main beneficiaries will include the most vulnerable,
widows, and girl child mothers in farming who;
a) are already practicing back-yard gardening.
b) are particularly vulnerable e.g. single headed households with family
size of 5 people.

c) Who are resident in the project community.

d) who have lost their husbands and are now breadwinners of the
family.
 e) women and girls who have been victims of economic vulnerabilities
that have reduced them to begging, selling themselves to make ends
meet.
f) girls who have dropped out of school due to pregnancy with no man
to claim responsibility now single child mothers.

g) are reputed to be willing, honest, hardworking with initiative.

8.0 RESULTS / OUTPUTS:

Objectives Results/outcome Outputs indicators

Small-scale women  30 acres (10 hectares) of cassava

farmers’ in the 3 cultivated.
targeted chiefdoms have
improved access to  30 acres (10 hectares) of groundnut
cassava and groundnut cultivated.
production facilities and
 3 cassava groups, 3 groundnut groups
techniques - leading to:
formed/strengthened & trained in improved
Increased food and cash
agricultural practices.
crop production.
 50% (of baseline) increase in yield over time

 75% of targeted households have moved

away from 1.3 meals per day to at least 2
balanced meals per day.
Objectives
One  80% of over 450 farmers meet regularly &
make weekly savings scheme.

Targeted communities in  12 communities trained and sensitized on

the 3 targeted chiefdoms nutrition as well as water and sanitation
have improved access to issues.
nutritional, techniques
and information – leading  Targeted households meet regularly to
to: increased knowledge discuss nutrition, food utilization, and
and improved nutritional sanitation issues.
practices.
 Small-scale farming  3 cassava processing machines set-up in the
households in the 3 communities.
targeted chiefdoms have  80% of farming households targeted have
improved access to access to business information through the
storage, processing and business scheme.
marketing techniques –  9 farming groups trained in marketing
Objectives leading to: reduced aspects.
Two community vulnerability  40 % increase in marketable surplus over
to production losses and the years.
increased marketable  3 cassava processing groups formed.
surplus.

Targeted communities in  Beneficiaries trained and are engaged in

the 3 targeted chiefdoms peace building initiatives.
have improved access to  Conflict prevention and mitigation
conflict early warning mechanisms (early warning systems,
information and information gathering, meeting, etc) put in
techniques in peace place to mitigate gender based violence
building initiatives, against women.
leading to: reduced  40% reduction in incidences of community
community/family and family conflict over the years.
Objectives
Three conflict and domestic
violence and stereotypes.

Increased organization  NEED-Sierra Leone staff/volunteers

capacity of NEED-Sierra trained in M&E.
Leone in the 3 targeted  1 project monitoring and evaluation system
chiefdoms. developed
 Food security village development plan
prepared.
9.0 ACTIVITIES PLANNED AND WORKING METHODS:

OBJECTIVE ONE:

Result 1:

1.0 Increased food and cash crop production:

This result focuses on increasing production and productivity of the key staple
crops amongst farmers in Sierra Leone and target area: cassava and groundnut.
A key strategy adopted by the project will be to establish groups and
strengthen existing ones in cassava and peanut/groundnut production.

The key purpose of establishing these groups is to facilitate learning, share

and cross support. This is to ensure ownership and control of among member in
view of unequal power relations within the groups. Farmers will be encouraged
to move away from shifting cultivation to permanent cropping systems and
towards the cultivation of larger areas of upland which are widely present in
the target area and right for cassava and peanut/groundnut cultivation because
these areas have high yield potential, and their improved cultivation will allow
for the regeneration of up-land areas currently being over-exploited through
shifting cultivation.

1.1 Carry out awareness-raising sessions on the project:

As a first step to ensure that the whole community understands the purpose,
expected results and methodology of the planned baseline and project, NEED-
Sierra Leone will undertake community level awareness-raising sessions in every
targeted village within the 3 Chiefdoms.

Key informants and resource persons will be involved, including: traditional and
religious leaders; chiefs; “mammy queens; youth and women’s leaders; teachers;
and health centre staff. In addition, farming households, in particular female
headed households will be targeted. Community inputs from these sessions will
then be integrated into the project planning process and the baseline carried
out. Ownership of the project will be promoted amongst the project
management committees as a means to supporting them to improve services to
beneficiary farmers over the long term. This will also involve the formal
lunching of the project.

1.2 Organize farming groups according to type of crop:

In total, it is planned to support 3 cassava groups and 3 groundnut groups. No

groups are currently known to exist in these chiefdoms. Farmers currently
work on an individual basis. Seeds, assorted tools, various materials and
equipment will be purchased and distributed.
Each group will receive the following tools and small equipment as a first set
free of charge: 5 hoes, 10 machetes, 2 watering cans, 4 shovels, 4 spades, 4
forks, 5 sickles, 1 pickaxe, measuring tape and gardening lines. For cassava, the
Sleekers’ variety 1 to 6 will be supplied and for groundnut, the Slimut 1 variety.
Every group will receive 1 bushel of seeds. 3 full set of cassava processing
machine will be purchased with a set of spare parts and assigned to each
chiefdom.

1.3 Train groups in improved agricultural practices and agro-forestry

NEED Sierra Leone, in direct collaboration with the agricultural instructors

based in the Chiefdom will be responsible for training women farmers groups in
agricultural practices relevant to the dominant crop type grown by the group.

Key techniques covered will include: soil assessment and conditions; quantity,
quality and use of inputs; planting and harvesting seasons; cultivation
techniques (including soil conservation); Integrated Pest Management (IPM);
harvest management; seed conservation; production monitoring and evaluation.
Farmers will be encouraged to specialize in 1 or these 2 crops and also to make
the most of the land they cultivate. Agro-forestry techniques will also be
promoted, to enable women farmers to combine cassava and groundnut and
make the most of all land available to increase and diversify production. In
addition NEED Sierra Leone will develop local IEC materials for wider
dissemination of information.

1.4 Carry-out awareness-raising sessions on Cassava and Peanut/Groundnut

production:
Through awareness-raising sessions organized in selected communities, cassava
production and peanut/groundnut seed production will be promoted in all three
targeted chiefdoms as a means to further diversify food production,
particularly for women.
Meetings will be held at times and locations convenient to women, in order to
facilitate maximum attendance. Main issues covered during the sessions will
include: economic and nutritional benefits of cassava and groundnut production;
advantages and limitations of collective work; beneficiaries’ commitments;
group organization and dynamics.

OBJECTIVE TWO:

Result 2:

2.0 Reduced community vulnerability to production losses and increased

marketable surplus:

This result focuses on strengthening and optimising the value chain process of
Garri for women farmers within the target area to enable linkages between
agricultural production, processing, packaging and commercialization of cassava
and peanut/groundnut products and sub-products to become more effective.

2.1 Carry-out awareness-raising sessions on crop processing and marketing

Awareness-raising sessions at community level will be held in the targeted

areas for the setting-up of the business centre to introduce the purpose of
the centre and to focus in particular on the added value of working collectively
on processing and marketing processes.

2.2 Training of farmers in food processing:

Women Farmers will be trained and encouraged to process their crops into
various sub-products, for example, cassava - gari, fufu, starch, and flour. In
order to improve presentation of products, packaging and labelling material to
seal plastic bags, will also be purchased.

A key priority will be to provide support to the groups to translate their

business ideas into a viable business plan.

2.3 Strengthen farmers’ groups on marketing aspects:

All groups will be trained and informed on marketing organization and

strategies in relation to the value chain approach. In particular, they will learn
how to measure and cost their agricultural production, how to add value to their
production, how to investigate market prices and calculate their selling prices
to enable maximum returns from middle men, and how best to organize
themselves collectively to set-up and negotiate prices.

OBJECTIVE THREE:

Result 3:

3.0 Reduced community/family conflict and violence:

Our strategy focuses mainly on the conflict early warning system. We work
with communities to create increased awareness and understanding of conflict
and violence, and to develop appropriate tools and techniques for conflict
assessment, analysis and reduction within our operational area.

3.1 Conflict Assessment and Analysis:

NEED Sierra Leone will work with the trained peace monitors and communities,
and will use the livelihood framework and a combination of techniques to
systematically collect and analyse information about potential conflict
situation.
 3.2 Training of Community Peace Monitors:

NEED Sierra Leone will train community peace monitors in conflict early
system. The purpose of the training is to enable the peace monitors to:

 Gain a better understanding of conflict early warning system- what is

involved, how it works and manages at community level.
 Assess their communities exposure to conflict and violence, ability to
mitigate and the resultant impact on their lives and livelihoods
 Provide comprehensive analysis to better inform all future development
activities with the view of reducing their communities’ vulnerability to
violence and conflict, preventing emergencies and promoting
sustainable rural development and poverty reduction.

3.3 Strengthen NEED Sierra Leone capacities in Gender and integrate

learning:
NEED Sierra Leone team will be strengthened in gender approaches and tools
to be able to be more gender sensitive in planning and implementation of the
project activities. This will help the project to address the issues of men as
well as women in gender equity manner.

10.0 IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES:

The proposed strategies addresses the real development needs of the people
and their communities in the target chiefdoms and overall food security
related development challenges and opportunities in the Chiefdoms.
The proposed strategies put the local people and beneficiaries at the centre
of the project/ development. It seeks to empower them to be real managers
and owners of their own development initiatives by directly and proactively
involving them in the project design, overall management and implementation.
The sub-sections below, explain the key strategies that would be adopted by
the project.
Capacity Building:
This action will contribute to community, target groups’ productive,
social and financial assets so that beneficiary population will be able to
resist shocks, in particular the ones mainly experienced in the project
area, which include crop damage, lack of agricultural inputs, post-
harvest losses, markets and lack of household labour.
Gender approach:
Gender is a cross-cutting issue in all project activities. Women in the
project area are particularly vulnerable because they have a heavy
workload and have limited access to inputs, resources and income due
to Cultural, social beliefs and stereotypes being the underlying reasons
for this situation.
 This project therefore aims to demonstrate, through visible results
that women, when allowed to participate, can successfully contribute to
increased household production and income for the benefit of the
entire household and community.
Collective work and solidarity group strengthening:

In order to farm larger areas of land to generate cross-learning and

multiplier-effects, the action will encourage collective production,
processing and marketing work. This project strategy will therefore
consist of working through groups.
Environmental friendly and sustainable production:

One of the key project strategies to increase production and income is

to use environmentally friendly method of cultivation. Therefore,
climate resilient self-regenerative agricultural production will be
encouraged and enhanced.
Partnership with other development organizations and government
structures:
The stated project objectives can be met only by working in
partnership with agencies specializing within and outside areas of
NEED Sierra Leone expertise. These areas include food aid and the
business value chain approach and Crop diversification and pest
controlled, which will be supported by the Ministry of Agriculture
associates to this action.

11.0 SUSTAINABILITY:

The sustainability of this project is based on the implementation strategies

highlighted above. The strategies have been designed to create adequate
knowledge/skills base, access to saving and income generating through
processing and marketing facilities, partnership working, linkages, shared
learning, strengthening of governance structures and involvement of
government line ministries. All being equal, these strategies will ensure that
the impact of project continue to be reflected on the project beneficiaries
even when the project ends.

12.0 IMPACT OF INITIATIVE ON THE ENVIRONMENT:

Our organisation is environmentally minded with a strategic area being
“Environmental Development” as a significant area to poverty eradication by
promoting climate change mitigation and adoption actions in all its project
implementations for the purpose of the preservation, conservation, and
cultivation of dynamics environmental resilient practices and provide to
maintain a balanced ecology that is conducive for existence through self-
sustainable regenerative agriculture and ecosystem.
 This Initiative is a Climate Resilient Agricultural project which contributes to
sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes for target
beneficiaries by adapting and building resilience to climate change through
the cultivation of CASSAVA a climate resilient crop that absorbs Carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere and processes the Carbon to a major staple food
whiles the PEANUT/GROUNDNUT which is a nutritious legumes, fixes the
atmospheric nitrogen and contribute to soil quality that will lead to positive
and sustainable environmental benefits in order to enhance the economic
independence of these vulnerable women for breaking the cycle of poverty.

13.0 MANAGEMENT OF NEED SIERRA LEONE:

NEED Sierra Leone is governed by:
 Board of Directors
 Management Team (Head of Secretariat)
Board of Directors:
The Board of Directors is responsibility for providing policy direction
in the management and administration of the organization.
Management Team (Head of Secretariat):
The project management team is made up of Program Manager, Project
Director, Financial Officer/Admin, Project Supervisors and Community
Stakeholders which the responsibilities of:

Program Manager:
Head of organisation charged with the overall management of and
coordination of the administrative and technical Program functions of
all projects.

He reports to donors, board and major stakeholders at national and

international level by making frequent field visits to the project
location in order to ensure that the activities planned are “on track” in
relation to project objective/project goal and that adjustments are
made in time of condition change.

Project Director:
Coordinate, supervise and monitor all planned activities including
technical advice and innovations to ensure the success of the project
through trainings, meetings, practical demonstrations and participatory
talks in collaboration with major stakeholders.

She keeps proper record of all project activities and provide a monthly
reports to the Program Manager.
 Finance Officer/Admin:
She will ensure that the account section maintains all financial records
of the project and disburses all administration cost funds and project
funds to staff according to the financial procedures of the NEED
Sierra Leone.

She is also responsible as an admin for documentation and

communication of all NEED Sierra Leone relevant information to major
stakeholders and the public.

Project Supervisor:
Spend 100% of his time with the project. He is responsible for the
supervision and monitoring of all project activities to enhance the
success of the project by working closely with all stakeholders at
community level to sensitize and mobilize the community to be totally
involve at all level of the project implementation and keeps record of
all project activities and provide monthly, interim and final report to
Program Manager.

14.0 EVALUATION MECHANISM:

NEED Sierra Leone has three levels of internal evaluation mechanism put in
place and these will include:
At community level:
The project management committee has the responsibility to supervise
and follow-up of the project activities and ensures that the resources
received are effectively and prudently used.

At project level:
The program team has the responsibility of making frequent field visits
to the project location and ensure success of the project. It is also a
major part of responsibility to field monitoring activities to ensure that
project result are being achieved and to put the project back on track
in the areas where the project is deviating from its focus and
objectives. Also conduct mentoring and coaching.

At management level:
The Program Manager coordinate and manage program activities which
include collaboration with all major stakeholders.
 15.0 PROJECT ACTIVITY PLAN

No Activity Schedule Responsible Person

Identification and registration of targeted
1 January 2021 NEED Sierra Leone
women farmers
2 Awareness Raising and Meetings January 2021 NEED Sierra Leone
NEED Sierra Leone
3 Formation of groups for effective project work Project Director
February 2021
Targeted farmers
NEED Sierra Leone
Procurement of and distribution of inputs
3 Project Director
(Tools, Seeds) February 2021
Targeted farmers
NEED Sierra Leone
4 Brushing and clearing February 2021
Targeted farmers
NEED Sierra Leone
5 Preparation of land and planting March 2021
Targeted farmers
NEED Sierra Leone
6 Weed Control June 2021
Targeted farmers
August 2021 NEED Sierra Leone
7 Harvesting and marketing (Groundnut)
Targeted farmers
September 2021 NEED Sierra Leone
8 Preparation of land and planting (Groundnut)
Targeted farmers
December 2021 NEED Sierra Leone
9 Harvesting and marketing (Groundnut)
Targeted farmers
March 2022 NEED Sierra Leone
10 Harvesting and marketing (Cassava)
Targeted farmers
NEED Sierra Leone
11 Monitoring and reporting On-going
Targeted farmers
 16.0 BUDGET (COST AND FINANCE PLAN SEE ATTACHED)
Total Total Cost
Unit Cost
No Description Unit Qty Cost in Leones
($)
($) (SLL)
A PROGRAM COST
1 Cassava and Peanut/Groundnut Cultivation/Assorted Tools/Seeds/Sleekers
1.0 Hoes (small) 90@$3 for 90 women farmers N/R 90 3.0 270
1.1 Machetes/Cutlasses 90@$8 N/R 90 8.3 747
1.2 Hoes (Large) 45@$13.6 for 6 women farmers groups N/R 45 13.6 612
1.3 Pickaxe 18@$12.8 for 6 groups/3 per group N/R 18 12.8 230
1.4 Measuring Tape (150 metres) 3@$18.2 N/R 3 18.2 55
1.5 Gardening Line 6 roll @$14.3 Roll 6 14.3 86
1.6 Cassava Sleekers (stems) 480 bundles@$3.6 (40bundles per Hectare for 12 ha) Bundles 480 3.6 1,728
1.7 Groundnut Slimut 1 Variety Seed 30 bushels @$37.9 (10 bushel per Chiefdom for 3) Bushels 30 30.9 927
Sub-Total 1 4,655 44,700,044
2 Hands on Training and Awareness Raising Sessions for Beneficiaries
2.0 Awareness Raising Session:
2.1 Awareness Raising Sessions for Beneficiaries and Stakeholders Sessions 3 95.0 285
2.2 Train groups in improved agricultural practices, agro-forestry & Community Peace 315.0 945
Sessions 3
Monitors
2.3 Awareness-Raising sessions on Cassava and Peanut/Groundnut production: Sessions 3 134.0 402
2.4 Awareness-Raising and Training Sessions on food processing and marketing Session 3 150.0 450
2.5 IEC Materials and Training Manual Designing & Printing Copies 180 5.0 900
2.6 Daily sustenance allowance (DSA) for all the training sessions Lumpsum 1 930.0 930
Sub-Total 2 3,912 37,566,936
3 Farm Labor Wage for 12 Hectares (30 Acres)
3.0 Labor Wage for Brushing, Tilling & Planting by 200 persons (12 Hectares of
Hectares 1 1,984.6 1,985
Cultivation Land)
3.1 Food for work (5 bags rice/1 bag onion/1 rubber oil/5 pkts maggie/10 pkts salt/1 carton
Bulk 3 352.0 1,056
fish)
Sub-Total 3 3,041 29,198,882
 4 Monitory, Evaluation and Supervision
4.0 Project monitory, evaluation and supervision activities Exercise 1 350.0 350
4.1 Signpost/ Signboard (4X4 ft) for Project Site N/R 3 91.7 275
Sub-Total 3 625 6,002,835
5 Report Printing and Distribution
5.0 Report printing and distribution Nr 1 149.0 149
Sub-Total 3 149 1,430,847
B ADMINISTRATIVE COST
6 Enhance the capacity of NEED Sierra Leone to undertake the task
6 Time spent by Program Manager on project (100%) months 12 120.0 1,440
6.1 Time spent by Project Coordinator on project (100%) months 12 110.0 1,320
6.2 Time spent by Project Supervisor (100%) months 12 100.0 1,200
6.3 Time Spent by Finance Officer/Admin (75%) months 12 90.0 1,080
6.4 Stationery and office sundries and others Assorted 1 232.0 232
6.5 Purchase/Licence of One Motorbike (TVS Apache RTR 180 Model) N/R 1 1,345.0 1,345
6.6 Office Rent @ $975.4 per year Year 1 975.4 975
Sub-Total 3 7,592 72,909,817

GRAND TOTAL OF PROJECT COST (US$) 19,974 191,809,362

Exchange Rate: US$ 1 = SLL Le 9,603 as of 3rd

December 2020
 17.0 CROP (CASSAVA & PEANUT/GROUNDNUT CULTIVATION AND PRODUCTION CALENDER:

CROP CALENDER

Selected Crops YEAR 1 YEAR 2

J-21 F-21 M-21 A-21 M-21 J-21 J-21 A-21 S-21 O-21 N-21 D-21 J-22 F-22 M-22 A-20 M-20 J-20
1 Cassava
2 Peanut/Groundnut

COLOR KEY:

Planting
Growing
Harvesting