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Global Grant Proposal Form for Project G-1561 Last updated by Dugan Lamoise <duganlamoise@gmail.com> on 24-Sep-18 Project Title Youth and Women Empowerment Type of Project [X] Humanitarian [ ] VTT [ ] Scholarship Primary Host Partner Information
Primary International Partner Information
Grant Host Committee
Grant International Committee
Do any of these committee members have potential conflict of interest? If so, please briefly explain. No. Tell us a little about your project. What are the main objectives of the project, and who will benefit from it? The project will provide financial literacy training to youth and women of rural communities in order to help them grow their local economies, improve household income and become leaders in their community. This project has a strong training component. First, six Community Facilitator Trainers will be trained over five days by a Burundi Friends International (BFI) Lead Coordinator Trainer. All of the training modules will be taught over the initial five days, but as the project progresses, regular two-day trainings will bring the team back together to review upcoming modules, address problems encountered, and share successes. The six Community Facilitator Trainers will be assigned to eight groups of an average of 22 people each and will train these group members in financial literacy. There will be 48 groups in total. Gradually and as communities take ownership, support will be withdrawn to ensure the project’s sustainability by allowing groups to assume leadership of personal finances and community concerns. Monitoring and evaluation will be diligent through data collection using cell phone applications. Which area of focus will this project support?
Which goals of this area of focus will your project support? - How will you measure your project impact?
Do you know who will collect information for monitoring and evaluation? -
Humanitarian Project The project schedule is for a fall 2018 start in Gitega rural zone, Mungwa zone, Makebuko commune, and Giheta commune of Gitega province of Burundi.
Cooperating Organization (Optional)
Why did you choose to partner with this organization and what will its role be? I learned of Burundi Friends International (BFI), a San Diego based charitable organization, as a result of a presentation to my Rotary Club, RC of Del Mar, given by BFI executive director, Julie Marner. I was immediately impressed by BFI's expertise and by its proven track record of positive results during its 10 years of operating in Burundi. BFI’s mission to unite and educate youth, women and men leading to economic empowerment and self-sustaining communities in Burundi aligns perfectly with my own passion to improve lives and Rotary's Economic and Community Development Area of Focus. This grant proposal meets Rotary's requirements and will strengthen the ties between RC of Bujumbura, RC of Del Mar and BFI. After meeting Ms. Marner, I searched for a Rotary club in Bujumbura that might be interested in collaborating on a project in Burundi. Then District Governor Frédéric Bishahushi directed me to President Elect of the RC of Bujumbura, Valérie Siniremera. I contacted Valérie to arrange a preliminary meeting in April 2018 with Ms. Marner and several of BFI's Burundi staff, Valérie, Mr. Bishahushi and another Bujumbura club member to determine whether there was interest in collaborating on a project together. There was interest and several additional meetings have now occurred as follows: 7/12/18 - Four members of BFI presented the idea behind this training grant to the RC of Bujumbura. 8/9/18 - Ms. Marner again presented with other BFI members to RC of Bujumbura. At this meeting a date was set for the Community Assessment which occurred with RC of Bujumbura's participation on August 14, 2018. BFI will oversee the training of trainers as well as the training of the community groups. BFI is responsible for the Lead Trainer and the six Community Facilitator Trainers. Partners (Optional) List any other partner that will participate in this project. - Volunteer Travelers (Optional) Provide name, email of traveler(s). N/A Describe this person's role in the project. N/A Rotarian Participants Describe the role that host Rotarians will have in this project. The host Rotarians will participate in the Community Assessment and will visit the project a least once every three months to ensure that the project is meeting the needs of the beneficiaries. The host club will open a specific account for the project funds, monitor progress towards milestones and disburse funds from the project account when appropriate. In addition, they will ensure that the project receipts are collected and transferred to the international partner for reporting purposes as required by TRF. Describe the role that international Rotarians will have in this project. The international Rotarians are actively involved in the project design, responsible for the project fundraising, dispersing funds from the U.S. based project bank account to the local project account managed by the RC of Bujumbura as milestones are completed and documented, supporting the host Rotarians in Burundi on an as needed basis and interfacing locally with BFI. Rotarians from the international partner club plan to visit Burundi and the communities benefitting from this grant within the next year. What is the budget for this grant?
Tell us about the funding you have secured for your project.
Humanitarian Projects - Project Planning Describe the community needs that your project will address. This project provides the vital step of generating income for women and youth that they would otherwise not be able to achieve. Weekly gatherings allow weekly savings to occur for the individual while also collecting funds to address and actively resolve community issues. How did your project team identify these needs. Our team members from the host Rotary Club of Bujumbura, BFI and BFI volunteers identified the community needs by conducting a thorough community cssessment. The assessment was held on August 14, 2018 although prior visits to the commune provided helpful background information. How were members of the benefiting community involved in finding solutions. A fair representation of the wider community was involved in the community assessment allowing their voices to be heard on their concerns. The root concern of members is the lack of opportunity to gain a steady income. How were community members involved in planning the project. Community members gathered together to voice their concerns and asked for financial training to be taught in their community. The planning of the project emerged from the day we gathered together for the community assessment. It is this same gathering that occurs when the savings groups are formed for planning the implementation of the groups in their community. Humanitarian Projects - Project Implementation Summarize each step of your project's implementation.
Will you work in coordination with any related initiative in the community? If yes, briefly describe the other initiatives and how they relate to this project. If no, please explain. Are local initiatives not addressing these needs? Or, if they are, why did you decide not to work with them? Local initiatives do not have the capacity to reach the large population of Gitega and beyond. Burundi's highly populated country is a challenge to local authorities, especially the population of youth. It isn't currently possible for everyone's financial needs to be met and help is needed from outside organizations. Burundi has one of the worst GNI's per capita at $280 as ranked by the World Bank, 2016. Please describe the training, community outreach, or educational programs this project will include. During the initial phase, the Community Facilitator Trainers (CFT's) are trained. Once their training is completed, these trainers go out into the community to train their groups. There will be refresher training courses held throughout the project for the CFT's to reunite as a group with the Lead Trainer. In these refresher sessions, the trainers will review upcoming modules and materials, share challenges encountered as well as their successes, and ensure that data collection and entry is consistent across all the groups. Please see the separately attached Training Curriculum for more detailed information. How were these needs identified? The needs were voiced by individual interviews with women and youth in Gitega. The interview collected their basic demographics but then allowed time for the participant to voice their concern on strengths and weaknesses in the community. What incentives (for example, monetary compensation, awards, certification, or publicity), will you use, if any, to encourage community members to participate in the project? This program does not use outside incentives to encourage participation. The strength of the savings program comes from the identified need of the participants, the need to increase income, and then their own ability to address this financial need by working together in savings groups. The investment of the participant each week allows their own financial capital to be built so that they can later take their share out, their own incentive, for successfully participating regularly with their peers and community members. List any community members or community groups that will oversee the continuation of the project after grant-funded activities conclude. After grant-funded activities conclude, BFI will continue supportive supervision of the groups with the same training staff for an additional seven months. This additional time will allow the established community groups to improve and refine their income generation activities. Budget Will you purchase budget items from local vendors? Explain the process you used to select vendors. The project is training intensive and as such, most of the budget is for training fees. The training fees established for the Lead Trainer and the CFT's are fair and consistent with local pay scales. During the trainings in the capital of Bujumbura, each trainer will be awarded $100 to include hotel, food, transportation, materials, per diem. While in the villages, the Lead Trainer's fee is $23.53 per day, and the 6 CFTs' fee is $16.47 per day per person. Did you use competitive bidding to select vendors? If no, please explain. The cell phones will be purchased in the United States and an estimated cost is $250 each. The vendor will be selected based on price and quality. Most the cell phones available in Burundi are imported from China and are of inferior quality. Since data collection to support M&E is an integral part of this project, we want to insure that the cell phones are of good quality and will last for the project duration. Please provide an operating and maintenance plan for the equipment or materials you purchased for this project. This plan should include who will operate and maintain the equipment and how they will be trained. N/A Describe how community members will maintain the equipment after grant-funded activities conclude. Will replacement parts be available? N/A If the grant will be used to purchase any equipment, will the equipment be culturally appropriate and conform to the community's technology standards? If yes, please explain. If no, describe how the project team will help community members adopt the technology. N/A After the project is completed, who will own the items purchased by grant funds? No items may be owned by a Rotary district, club, or member. The cash box and ledger books are the ownership of each group and they decide what to do with these items. Every decision of the group, whether it be which community project to work on to the share out date, is decided together and this includes their purchased items. Funding Have you found a local funding source to sustain project outcomes for the long term? If yes, please describe this funding source. N/A Will any part of the project generate income for ongoing project funding? If yes, please explain. No Is your economic and community development activity a microcredit project? If yes, upload your microcredit supplement file. No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||