ABOUT US
ADEFO is a multi-actor platform established in 2021 by multiple partners operating in Teso Sub region.
Operating as a membership organization and bound by a Memorandum of Understanding, ADEFO is hosted by SOCADIDO and is currently implementing a multi-actor project on agribusiness.
ADEFO Foundation as a Multi Actor Partnership is working with a wide range of actors that include CSOs, Government and Private Sector, research and academia, media, donors and communities to facilitate creative innovations to confront community challenges through joint interventions, policy and system change at community level, leveraging the Platform’s convening power.
VISION
Empowered, organised, successful and resilient small holder farmers in Teso
MISSION
Supporting small holder farmers’ initiatives and needs.
Our Goal
The typical goal of multi-actor value chain partnership is the inclusion of smallholders and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into commercial chains. Such collaborative arrangements between private and public actors are increasingly becoming popular as a component of development interventions to overcome market or government failures, and to increase efficiency in the value chain, because partners can pool their resources, knowledge and capabilities, and can offer advantages in terms of increased flexibility, productivity, cost reduction and innovations.
Why the MAP
Multi-Actor Partnerships (MAP) enable meaningful collaboration among actors along value chains to connect and accelerate bigger impact to achieve urgent results and changes that contribute to sustainable development. For value chains to work best, the actors must cooperate to produce higher-quality products and generate more income for all individual actors along the chain, as opposed to the simplest kinds of value chains, in which producers and buyers exchange only price information, often in a competitive mode.
The MAP Focus
Organisation and knowledge of the actors have been identified as the most important aspects of smallholder farmer empowerment as it enables farmers to understand the causes and effects of their own agricultural problems and to articulate their technology, extension and development needs. Knowledge empowerment allows farmers to actively participate in the planning, implementation and evaluation of services delivered, in effect transforming them into clients, managers and/or owners/mutual partners, which in turn leads to increased productivity, incomes, livelihoods and are able to meet the education and health care needs of their families.
