NAAD Women
“Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So, we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 75% of our four million beneficiaries are women”.
NAAD Women in Agriculture
NAAD Women
- Launched in 2019
- Led by a farmer / Agripreneur: Jane frances Nkiruka
The objectives of training were considered to be:
- increased income (poverty alleviation)
- increased food production and security
- empowerment
- improved skills
- exposure
At the end of the workshop relevant information material produced on paper, video, audio is shared among the trainees to serve as a guiding compass which includes:
- vaccination manuals
- creep feeder designs
- housing
- brooding
- rearing
- Made up of 36 states structures, 72 District & 774 Local Government structures
- Stand for commercialization of women farmers
- Lobby and advocate in favor of Women in Agriculture
- Follows a Community Public Private Partnership (CPPP) approach to Development
- Encourages participation of rural Women
- No Hunger
NAAD Women’s Programmes
NAAD Women Poultry Farm Scheme
NAAD Women workshop on Poultry is a tool in poverty eradication and promotion of gender equality. This workshop was organized by NAAD Women and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
NAAD- Women Beef Training Scheme
NAAD is also steadfast in empowering women whom some have no formal education by ensuring that we capacitate them with skills that will benefit them in the poultry faming programmes and improve their livelihoods.
NAAD Women Tech Convention
Consistent with its commitment to develop and enhance Women Agri-preneurs, in April 2020 NAAD Women in collaboration with its main partner and sponsor the Bank of Agricultural held an Agri-Business Tech convention with the objective to provide an overview of how best to equip women with tech solutions in running profitable, sufficient and sustainable farming enterprises as well as solutions on the challenges faced by women farmers.
NAAD Greenhouse
In our effort to mitigate the knowledge-skill gap among youths and women in greenhouse farming technology, NAAD-Yes- to- Greenhouse-Training was launched in March, 1st 2021. Ever since then, we have been training youths and women (comprising Undergraduate and Graduate Interns) Farm managers, Founders, Startups, Agric. Supervisors, CEOs, Extension officers, Corp -members, in-class and on-field on greenhouse farming technology.
NAAD-Women Mechanization Scheme
Mechanization increases the power applied to agricultural operations and is one tool among many for improving farm productivity and increasing incomes for smallholder farmers and processors to improve their livelihood in the Country
Empowering Women through Poultry Faming
NAAD persists with efforts to support trained Poultry famer producers in a bid to fight poverty and under-development as well as to provoke rural economic development. C-way- Poultry, started its poultry faming business in 2012 producing only eggs.
