Project Name:
Training on “Agricultural Marketing” for Leader Farmers and Cooperative Members of Keti Bander and Kharo chhan Tehsils District Thatta

Country:
Pakistan

Project Location within Country: 
Keti Bander and Kharo chhan Tehsils District Thatta, Sindh

Name of Client:
Mr. Abdul Uyoob Alabdeen
Program Manager Food Security and Livelihood, Action Contre la Faim (ACF) International Pakistan Mission.

Name of Associated Firm,
if any:- -

Name of Senior Staff Involved and Functions Performed:
Dr. Yameen Memon, Chief Executive, and Manager Programs, MDC.

• Prepare Contents of the Training
• Arrange for Skilled Resource Persons.
• Organize Exposure visit
• Capacity building of the field staff

Description of Project:
Since March, 2009, Action Against Hunger (AAH) is implementing a three year project “Improving Living Conditions in a Changing Environment-Thatta Coastal Farmers”  funded by the World Bank through the Japanese Social Development Fund. 
It is primarily an action-research (pilot) project to find easily replicable and sustainable mitigation measures against the impact of increased stalinization of soils for Food Security and Livelihoods and water sources for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.  It is being implemented in the Keti Bunder and Karo Chan union councils of Thatta district. Besides other core activities of the project, the capacity building of farmers has been given focus, in this respect various training events has been planned.

Objective of the Project
The main objective assignment is to organize three days three residential training events for the 60 selected farmers of coastal area of district thatta.

Services Provided

• Organize Training
• Awareness to the Farmers & Cooperative Members.
• Prepare training manual
• Coordinate with the resource person