April 2013
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News from the Africa Scout Region
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FAO supports ARO to expand the FFL project
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FAO supports ARO to expand the FFL project
Page 1 From NSOs SCOUTS South Africa Chairman honored by President ESA Patron receives ABETO Africa Award
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Page 2 From ARO 39th Southern Zone Scout Conference Youth Forum Southern Zone – MoP Community Leader Training SSA Kon Tiki Adventures go ‘Down Under’ and back to the ‘Wild West’
Page 3 KENYA - From the 8th – 20th April 2013, 15 Scout leaders from 11 NSOs in Africa converged at the Rosa Mystica Spiritual Centre in Nairobi for training in Food For Life. The participating NSOs were Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, South Sudan who each had 2 participants and Benin, Burundi, Kenya, Lesotho, Niger, South Africa and Uganda w, Burundi, South Africa and Lesotho who each had 1 participant. 2 FAO representatives, Mr. Okoth James Robert, the National Programme Manager and Ms. Winfred Nalyongo, the Programme Officer Livelihood with the help of Africa Regional Office staff members from the Administration, Development Support and Strategy and Education Services Departments facilitated the training. The training was organized within the framework of a partnership agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Scout Bureau-Africa Regional Office. The agreement aims to support the expansion of the Food For Life (FFL) project in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi and South Sudan. According to Mr. Okoth there are similarities between FFL and ’FAO's JFFLS (Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools) projects. The challenge remains to enrich FFL with skills needed for long-term food security while reducing vulnerability of coping strategies.
The objectives for the training were; 1. Introduce the FFL project to the 4 new countries 2. Create a forum for experience sharing and sharing of best practices in the implementation of the project from the countries already running the FFL project 3.Incorporate new methodologies in the implementation of the project 4. Equip the participants with project management skills Acquired skills and knowledge are expected to have multiplier effect as the trainees are set to initiate activities that will build agricltural and entrepreneurial skills of individual Scouts and, thus, contribue to food secruruty, fight against hunger and poverty alleviation. Trainees from South Africa and South Sudan shared their sentiments regarding their projects. Ms. Nosisa Sonia Mhlathi, the Project and Fund Raising Coordinator, SCOUTS South Africa said her expectations were to receive enough training to pass on to Scouts in her country to ensure the FFL project is sustainable and will be easy to expand to other provinces. Mr. Felix Ayume, who’s the FFL Project Coordinator, South Sudan Scout Association, expected to gain the necessary skills to roll out the pilot projects in 4 locations, Yei, Rejaf, Kogi and Magwe. The participants were very excited about the project and looked forward to implementing them back in their countries when they returned.
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