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Food Connects

The Women. The daughters. The saheli

After years of trying to find ways bring together young women to work on entreprenuerial, innovative skills, creative media making in rural contexts, gig enablement, crafterspace - food packaging, ..

The current thought is that a focus on food can bring women get started and come naturally together. We then help bring other connections via this paltform

  • health and nutrition
  • millets and locally sourced food
  • cafes, eateries in tumkur and ddarea
  • packaging solutions
  • mobility for delivery
  • storage solutions
  • preservations
  • communication medium
  • mesh knowledge browsers
  • learning platforms
  • special foods - medicinal to health
  • custom foods
  • fusion foods, ovens,..

Global Grant Application

Name of the Project

  • MaduWay
  • AkkaPaaka Junction - Catalyzing women entrepreneurs centered around food

Type of Project

Humanitarian

provide sustainable, measurable outcomes that address real community needs.

Area of Focus

Community Economic Development (aka Growing Local Economies)

Our members and our foundation work to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.

Project Overview

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For over a decade, we have been associated with villages in a forest area near our Rotary Tumkur club. Villages are going through change in the way men travel by bikes to nearby towns for work or move to large cities for labour and employment. What has not changed for the better is the social uplifting of women and girls. They are married off early and/or marry into the community early, older women do agricultural labor or engage in domestic activities. While young men own smartphones and bikes, women are dependent on their poor fathers and in a traditionally patriarchial setting.
While there are programs by govt and other NGOs that advocate skill training for women, there has not been a good conversion in them engaging with such training due to patriarchial conditions and more significantly due to lack of local employment with these skills.

  • post covid - girls off shools
  • engaging - culturally, socially and mixed age groups
  • farming (horticulture/agriculture) and pastoral families can connect with food better
  • revenge tourism - weekend and morning/eve hours outdoor activity increased in people
  • health and nutrition awareness more in people
  • value addtion is witnessed - from growing food to experiencing consumption prefereces

Project Planning

Select the goals that the project will address

  • Building the capacity of localleaders, organizations, and networks to support economic development in poorcommunities
  • Developing opportunities for productive work and improving access to sustainable livelihoods
  • Empowering marginalized communities by providing access to economic opportunities and services
  • Building the capacity of entrepreneurs, social businesses, and locally supported business innovators
  • Addressing gender or class disparities that prevent populations from obtaining productive workand accessing markets and financial services
  • Increasing access to renewable energy and energy-efficiency measures to create more sustainable and economically resilient communities
  • Empowering communities todevelop environmental and natural resource conservation skillsfor economic gain
  • Strengthening communities’ economic resilience and adaptive capacity in response to environmental and climate-related hazards and natural disasters
  • Developing and supporting community-based basic emergency preparedness services to improve economic resilience
  • Funding graduate scholarships for career-minded professionals related to community economic development

Describe the community needs that your project will address

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How did your project team identify these needs?

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How were members of the benefiting community involved in finding solutions?

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How were community members involved in planning the project?

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Project Implementation

Summarize each step of your project’s implementation.

Do not include steps related to fundraising, applying, or reporting. (Add rows as needed.)

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Partner Institutions

Will you work in coordination with any related initiatives 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?
There can be value in working with other groups including governments, nonprofit organizations, and private companies.

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Please describe the training, community outreach, or educational programs this project will include.

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How were these needs identified?

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What incentives (for example, monetary compensation, awards, certification, or publicity), will you use, if any, to encourage community members to participate in the project?

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List any community members or community groups that will oversee the continuation of the project after grant-funded activities conclude.

These may or may not be Rotary members or clubs.

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How will you measure your project’s impact?

Measure Collection Method Frequency Target Number
Total number of direct beneficiaries
Number of entrepreneurs supported
Number of businesses supported
Number of individuals trained
Number of jobs created
Number of youth employed in income‐generating activities
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Above are standard measures by Rotary (atleast one has to be selected)
Project specific measures needs to be needed

Collection Methods

  • Direct Observation
    • Meaning - information collected while visiting the project site and viewing the activities first-hand
    • Utility - providing/observing direct provision of a service, such as leading a training or treating a patient
  • Focus Group / Interview
    • Meaning - In‐depth conversation with anindividual (interview) or multiple beneficiaries (focus group) in which specific questions are posed by the interviewer/facilitator in order to collect specific information
    • Utility - Digging deeper into the impacts of a project and the experiences of beneficiaries; soliciting qualitative data; can be customized to sponsors’ need
  • Grant Records and Reports
    • Meaning - Documents kept by project sponsors on project participation, activities, and impacts for the use of Rotarians, RI/Rotary Foundation, and others
  • Public Records
    • Meaning - Documents containing data available to the public from the government, a private entity, or other organization
  • Questionnaire / Survey
    • Meaning - An assessment tool that usesspecific questions to gather data on attitudes, impressions, opinions, satisfaction levels,etc., from individuals in a beneficiary population
    • Utility - Gathering quantitative and qualitative data from a beneficiary group; can be customized to the sponsors’ needs
  • Satellite Imagery
    • Utility - Recording the location of activities implemented in multiple places, such as boreholes, health clinics, schools, etc.
  • Testing
    • Meaning - A procedure to determine a specific result
    • Utility - Determining the result of a specific activity; providing quantitative data

Do you know who will collect information for monitoring and evaluation?

If yes, please provide the name and contact information for that person or organization and briefly explain why this person or organization is qualified for this task. If no, please tell us how you plan to find a person or organization to complete this task.

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Budget

Rotary International Grant asking 25L
typically needs foriegn sponsor of 2-5L

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Possible categories
Accommodations, Equipment, Monitoring/evaluation, Operations, Personnel, Project management, Publicity, Signage, Supplies, Training, Travel, Tuition
Supporting documents
Upload any documents, such as price bids or pro forma invoices, to substantiate the listed expenses.

Will you purchase budget items from local vendors? Explain the process you used to select vendors.

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Did you use competitive bidding to select vendors? If no, please explain.

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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.

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Describe how community members will maintain the equipment after grant-funded activities conclude. Will replacement parts be available?

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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.

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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.

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Will any part of the project generate income for ongoing project funding? If yes, please explain.

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Community Assessment Report

Beneficiary Community or Institution

Eg: School, Healthcare System, Village, etc
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Groups in the community that would receive a clear, direct, and immediate benefit from the project

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Beneficiaries’ demographic information

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What methods did you use? (check all that apply)

  • Survey
  • Community meeting
  • Interview
  • Focus group
  • Asset inventory
  • Community mapping
  • Other

Who from the community participated in the assessment?

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List the community needs you identified that your project would address

List any needs you identified that your project would not address.

List the community’s assets, or strengths.

Considering the needs and assets you listed, explain how you determined the project’s primary goal.

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How would your project’s activities accomplish this goal?

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What challenges have prevented the community from accomplishing the project’s goals?

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How is the community addressing these challenges now?

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Why are the project’s activities the best way to meet this community need?

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Reference

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