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Grants Awarded | Casamance
Association des Jeunesses Agricoles de Casamance (AJAC-Lukaal)
Ziguinchor, Senegal
Founded in 1984, AJAC-Lukaal has been led by and served peasant communities in the Casamance for over twenty years. It contributes to lasting peace by assisting local communities to carry out economic, social and cultural activities that improve the living conditions of those affected by years of civil conflict. AJAC promotes family-based, sustainable agriculture for a healthy and balanced environment, provides agricultural and technical assistance, and helps channel funding from international donors. It has a rapidly growing membership of more than 7,500 farmers (5,000 of whom are women), who have organized themselves into 91 rural women’s groups and 30 mixed gender groups.
| 2009 | $97,495 | 1 year |
| This grant enables AJAC-Lukaal to provide community grants and technical assistance to 12 rural women’s groups in Casamance in order to reduce their farming workload and increase financial resources. Initiatives include the installation of solar pumps for drip irrigation; production of organic fertilizer; and seed conservation. In addition, the grant will enable AJAC-Lukaal to strengthen its administrative and financial systems, develop planning and monitoring tools, and provide salaries for four staff. |
| 2009 | $2,106 | 6 months |
| This grant enables a staff member of Ajac to attend a convening in Mbour, Senegal, with the purpose of strengthening and improving the quality and effectiveness of community grantmaking programs. |
| 2008 | $93,551 | 1 year |
This grant enables AJAC-Lukaal to provide community grants and technical assistance to 12 rural women’s groups in Casamance in order to consolidate and expand their farming activities. These include the construction of new wells, the creation of irrigation systems, and the installation of protective fencing for cultivated areas. The groups will receive training in organic farming techniques, as well as financial and project management. The grant will also support the development of AJAC-Lukaal’s community grantmaking program by covering the salary and related costs for a program manager.
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| 2007 | $48,755 | 1 year |
| This grant is for AJAC-Lukaal to provide community grants and technical assistance to seven rural women’s groups in Casamance to increase their agricultural productivity, improve their farming techniques, operate a solar water pump, and increase their financial and project management skills. |
| 2006 | $7,838 | 1 year |
| This grant enables AJAC-Lukaal to provide technical assistance, follow-up and coordination for its community grants to rural women’s groups. It also enables AJAC-Lukaal to conduct an organizational review with its member groups and develop a three-year action plan for its own governance, support of member groups and the creation of sustainable communities. |
| 2006 | $9,223 | 1 year |
| This grant enables two representatives from AJAC-Lukaal to attend the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya and to network with other organizations that work with rural women in post-conflict areas. |
| 2006 | $11,000 | 1 year |
| This grant enables AJAC-Lukaal to make community grants to two rural women’s groups in rural Casamance. The women are returning to their villages to revive their farming and build a better way of life for their families and communities. |
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