Grant is provided under the PVO Co-financing project (6150236) to Farming Systems Kenya, Ltd. (FSK), an indigenous PVO, to provide training and credit to small farmers in Nakuru district. DEC abstract (PD-BBW-688)
Name source: not recorded for this programScope: country, KenyaKind: program
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Grant is provided under the PVO Co-financing project (6150236) to Farming Systems Kenya, Ltd. (FSK), an indigenous PVO, to provide training and credit to small farmers in Nakuru district. FSK will train farmers in crop and livestock production techniques as well as in recordkeeping and credit management; provide in-kind loans for seed, fertilizer, and heifers; and advise farmers on market conditions and provide limited marketing and supply services. The training will consist of 2-day classroom sessions followed by field days and visits with individual farmers. Seed and heifer loans will be paid back in- kind, plus a 10% to 25% interest contribution to permit revolving loans and to support loan administration by FSK. FSK's loan management system and market advisory services will be computerized for more efficient operation. In addition to these primary activities, FSK will purchase a tractor and sell it on a credit basis to a private company which it has recently helped to establish. The company will repay FSK in cash plus interest and will in turn rent the tractor to smallholder farmers to assist in the preparation and harvest of their fields. This arrangement is expected to c
Source: DEC abstract, PD-BBW-688 (1990). This is the source's own text, not a cited summary of the documents.
Operated in: Kenya.
Years
1985 to 1995 years in documents
Implementer
Management Systems International, Inc. (MSI); Matrix Development Consultants 2 sources
Funder or award
USAID. Mission to Kenya; 615-0236-A-5006; 615-0236-G-0047
Purpose
Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.
Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. · Source: sentences in the program's documents
not in the map yet: no district, region or facility is named for this program yet; only Malawi and Guatemala have place data so far
No district, region or facility is named in this program's documents yet. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far. Towns and natural features are not drawn.
Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. · Source: document tags, scope rule
Scope: country: Kenya. The award code belongs to this country's mission. High confidence.
How we know this
How sure we are: 0.9.
OU code 615 = mission Kenya
evidence countries (1): Kenya 16; top share 1.00, single-country share 1.00
When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. · Source: award and document years
Axis: years in documents. The start year comes from first seen; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.
Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. · Source: initiative records, start year
Began during the Ronald Reagan administration (1981–1989). Based on its first seen, 1985. This places the program in time only; it does not mean that administration started it.
No document or official record says which initiative or administration launched this program.
Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. · Source: award and document records
Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field
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Title
Year
Document
Why listed
AID cooperative agreement no. 615-0236-A-00-5006-00 with Voluntary Agencies Development Assistance to increase the development impact of PVOs operating in Kenya
1985
PD-BAX-599
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-0047-00 to Volunteers in Technical Assistance to provide support for a program in the development of business management training and income generation
1990
PD-BBW-542
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-0048-00 to Farming Systems Kenya, Ltd. for a program in the development of smallholder agricultural training and credit
1990
PD-BBW-688
linked as an evaluation of this program
Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.
Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. · Source: document library
InsecticidesDEC topic tag, PD-ABJ-151, 1994, confidence 0.63; 1 record
VoiceDEC topic tag, PD-BBW-542, 1990, confidence 0.63; 1 record
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-1046[-00] to the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of Kenya to strengthen the institutional capability of YWCA to carry out women focussed [i.e. focused] socio-economic activities
1991
PD-BCB-972
linked as an evaluation of this program
Mid-term evaluation of PVO co-financing project
1991
PD-ABD-026
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-1062[-00] to the Council for International Development to strengthen the institutional capability of Promotion of Rural Initiative and Development Enterprises (PRIDE) and assist it to replicate the Baringo extension and credit banking model by opening a branch at Nyahururu
1991
PD-ABD-319
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-2042[-00] to Tototo Home Industries (THI) of Kenya to increase the effectiveness of its microenterprise credit program and to enhance its institutional and program sustainability
1992
PD-ABI-380
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-3041-00 to Christian Reformed World Relief Committee to strengthen and expand the capacity of three Kenyan PVOs to manage their programs and organizations more effectively
1993
PD-ABG-899
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-3045-00 to Plan International USA to increase community usership of borehole water and encourage sustainable maintenance of the boreholes in Kenya
1993
PD-ABG-937
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-3028-00 to Samburu Aid in Africa (SAIDIA) to provide support for a project that will enable SAIDIA to achieve sustainability for core health costs and enhance its managerial capacity
1993
PD-ABF-896
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID cooperative agreement no. 623-0236-G-00-4052-00 with Semi Arid Lands Training and Livestock Improvement Centers of Kenya (SALTLICK) for a project that will develop the capacity of the pastoralist community of northern rangelands
1994
PD-ABJ-149
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 623-0236-G-00-4055-00 to Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere (CARE) to establish local sustainable institutions to address unemployment among the youth in Taita Taveta and Makueni districts of Kenya
1994
PD-ABJ-150
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 623-0236-G-00-4053-00 to Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya for a project that will promote farm-based technologies and establishment of self-help groups to improve household incomes
1994
PD-ABJ-151
linked as an evaluation of this program
AID grant no. 615-0236-G-00-4068-00 to the Salvation Army World Service to increase the capacity of the local Salvation Army, Kenya to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate sustainable community-based health care programs