SNV has implemented ISDAP in Southwest Uganda, since December 2021 and is funded by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kampala. The project is currently in its first phase (2021 - 2024) and covers five districts in the Kigezi sub-region (Kisoro, Kabale, Rubanda, Rukiga and Rukungiri), three districts in the central Ankole sub-region (Rubirizi, Buhwejju and Bushenyi) and four in Rwenzori sub-region (Kabarole, Kyenjojo, Bunyangabu, and Fort Portal City).

ISDAP aims to improve livelihoods not by extension of the dairy component that outcompete other crops, but by strengthening complementarity of dairy production within the integrated farm enterprises framework by leveraging mutual benefits among the enterprises and/or their by-products. ISDAP thus looks creatively at how to integrate components such as improved forages for better animal nutrition, manure handling for enhanced fertilization of crops and rainwater harvesting.

SNV and the Royal Netherlands Embassy (EKN), Kampala, are currently discussing a five-year Project named Inclusive Livestock Development for Smallholder Farms (INCLUDE). The project is expected to begin in April 2024. ISDAP will close in March 2024 and all its activities shall be incorporated under the INCLUDE after the formal grant award is signed EKN.

Inclusive Livestock Development for Smallholders (INCLUDE) Project

The INCLUDE project will aim to increase smallholder farmers’ resilient livestock-based livelihoods in 22 districts and two (2) city councils in four regions of Uganda, including the Rwenzori sub-region focusing on five (5) districts and one (1) city council, Greater Ankole in four (4) districts, Kigezi region in six (6) districts, Busoga in five (5) districts and Kampala metropolitan (2 districts and KCCA). The project will target 75,000 smallholder farmers (SHFs) in these four sub-regions. It will adopt a farming systems approach integrating livestock and crops with livestock as an intervention entry point.