CHAIN Uganda

CHAIN is an acronym for Coalition for Health Agriculture and Income Networks, an Non- Governmental Organization which was established in 2008.

• Agricultural Cooperative

CHAIN Uganda was founded in 2008 initially as a community based organization (CBO) to serve the peri-urban poor, vulnerable groups and isolated farming communities in Mityana, Masaka and Nakaseke. It later expanded and increased its mandate to cover wider areas within Uganda, after being registered as a NOT FOR PROFIT organization.

Our key Objectives are:
Strategic objective 1
To enhance agricultural productivity by enabling communities to access and use appropriate technologies
Activities
1. Facilitate Identification and selection agro enterprises suitable for various communities
2. Support establishment of efficient seed systems
3. Support establishment of efficient animal breeding systems
4. Train farmers in proper crop and animal husbandry practices.
5. Facilitate communities linkages to agro-input suppliers
Strategic objective 2
To promote community based nutritional programs that enhance proper utilization of foods to improve household health status especially children and women
Activities
1 conduct nutritional needs assessment
2 conduct nutrition awareness campaigns
3 proper food preparation and utilization through cooking demonstrations
4 proper hygiene and sanitation awareness campaigns
Strategic objective 3
To promote micro and agro enterprises that improves household incomes.
Activities
1. conduct the income needs assessment
2. training people to indentify business opportunities within the community
3. Support households to diversify income sources.
4. Training community members in entrepreneurship skills.
5. Support the formation of savings and credit schemes.
Strategic objective 4
To enable producer communities participate in Value chains and linking them to profitable markets.
Activities
1 analyze the value chains for various commodities
2 create platforms for farmers to participate in the value chains
3 support value addition on commodities for increased incomes
4 facilitate the farmers to form functional producer, bulking and marketing groups
Strategic objective 5
To conduct adaptive research to guide decision making based on sound scientific facts.
Activities
1 identify research priority areas
2 conduct on farm evaluations of various technologies
3 initiate policy changes and advocacy
Strategic objective 6
To build partnerships and networks that enhances the sustainability of CHAIN programs.