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Sunday, 4 August 2013 - 11:45am

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I. Identification

N.B: Any incorrect information will automatically disqualify the project proposal.

Organization submitting the project proposal Youth Fraternity for Change (YFC-Uganda)

Organization status

Status of the organization Local youth-led or youth-focused NGO

Statutes

Statutes document Certificate of registration.jpg

Year of creation of the organization 2004

Examples of implemented projects

1Mbarara Youth Community Centre Project (on going)

Mbarara youth community centre (MYCC) is one project that is implemented by YFC-Uganda the facility
serves as the service delivery point for youth friendly services in Mbarara municipality as well as the
District. The facility is strategically located to act as the central service delivery point for youth friendly
services in the district (region). The facility is primarily run by YFC-Uganda in partnership with AIC-
Uganda, there are 25 affiliated youth community based organizations that directly get involved in
planning, and implementing some of the on site projects and activities aimed at youth livelihood
development. The facility offers the following coordinated services and activities clinic services, classes,
and fitness opportunities for every youth in the community, from tot to senior. Active adult youth, a
convention hall, teen/youth centre, art and recreation programs, adult learning and literacy and
language programs, debates, outreach services. Play ground, squash courts, volley ball, short football,
netball. The initiative hopes to integrate economic transformational activities into this structure to help
fight poverty among these young people and their respective households.
www.yfcuganda.org/Mbararayouthcommunitycentre

2Promoting sexual and reproductive Health among Youth in western Uganda (on going)
This project promotes the sexual and reproductive health knowledge and services among the
adolescents/youth and makes a positive contribution to their healthy development into adulthood,
particularly by providing accurate information to young people, supporting their advocacy activities for
their rights and provide the services. The projects target youth of age 15-35 year and it’s implemented
by five (5) organizations in southern western Uganda.
This program still provides accurate and comprehensive information on sexual and reproductive health
to students; youth groups, youth community based organizations CBOs and most at risk youth to enable
them understand the challenges of RH and make the right choices for the future.
Supports 50 YOUTH voice clubs to undertake advocacy activities to highlight the sexual and reproductive
health needs and rights and access to youth friendly health care services
YFC-Uganda sought to address the factors that hinder young people from seeking services by:
1. Advocating with policy makers and other influential leaders on the need to support SRH services for
young people;
2. Promoting health-seeking behavior and advertising youth-friendly services through TV magazine
campaigns; and other media platforms
3. Offering youth friendly SRH services at the private youth community centre (MYCC).
4. Building on what already exists using available facilities and service providers;
5. Reaching young people through a variety of channels such as: drama, visual arts debts, static clinics,
outreach (including peer education), and the private and commercial sectors;
6. Promoting the use of condoms for dual protection;
7. Establishing linkages with effective referral sites (AIC-Uganda);
8. Creating partnerships with other institutions/organizations for future scaling-up.
www.yfcuganda.org/ongoingcampaign

Main Resource Person

(please indicate the person who would be responsible for the project – projects can only be submitted
by young women or young men)

Main resource person name Mr/Ms Kamugasha m louis

Main resource person title Project Manager

Age 32

Deputy Resource Person

(please indicate the person who would be responsible for the project in addition to and notably in the
absence of the main resource person)

Deputy resource person name Agababyona Collins

Deputy resource person title progect coordinator

Mailing Address of the organization

Adress YFC-Uganda
Po box 1055
Mbarara-Uganda

Postal code 256

City Mbarara

Country Uganda

Phone number(s) of the organization +256752993625,+256701110297,+256702559158

Email addresses info@yfcuganda.org

Fax number(s) of the organization

Website of the organization www.yfcuganda.org

II. Project Proposal

Title of the project Recycling Banana Peels to produce briquette as an alternative source of Energy and
employment to youth

Executive summary

Executive summary
Uganda is predominantly an agricultural country with above 85 percent of its people engaged in growing
crops and rearing domestic animals. Among these crops Uganda is one of the world s’ grower of banana
(Musa sapeitum) in Africa. Over 1000 tons of banana is consumed around the country every day and
over 50% of the country’s production comes from western Uganda region (Ankole)
In Mbarara city alone, the second largest urban center in Uganda and the region center of western
Uganda, over 200 tons of bananas are consumed with every home on average producing over 21 /2 kgs
of banana peels always put aside as waste. it is these banana peels that we will process into briquettes.
These banana peels constitute 40% of the municipal/ city garbage and at times, it is littered everywhere
around the city environs especially dumping areas.
About 98 percent of energy consumption need of rural and urban centers in Uganda is met from
biomass sources derived from the forest, shrub land, and crop residues with lots of smoke having direct
negative impact on environment and health, especially causing respiratory and eye diseases. Due to the
population growth, demand for energy is increasing by 10% annually (Uganda Ministry of Energy and
Mineral Development (MEMD),). The rapidly disappearing forest resources and expensive hydropower
could not be the better answer for this ever-growing energy demand for cooking and heating purposes.
However, the nation is endowed with abundantly available biomass resources such as forest waste,
grassy weeds, shrubs, and banana a plant fruit and agricultural residues, which could be converted into
briquettes to substitute the commonly used fuel wood/charcoal that is considered the prime factor for
fast depletion of green forest causing imbalance in the ecosystem.
Renewable energy such as briquettes provide feasible energy supply option in rural areas and urban
centers that is cleaner in terms of emission than fuel wood and also meet the concerns of social justice
through employing poor people/youth in biomass collection, briquette production and marketing.
This proposed project would focus on promoting and disseminating briquette technology as most
dependable, sustainable and cleaner alternative energy source to household energy consumption for
cooking and heating purposes. It will also provide self-employment opportunities to poor youth and
develop rural entrepreneurship. The transporters and distributors of briquettes will also get job
opportunities. The users at village or town level will get more efficient and cleaner form of energy for
cooking and heating with almost no smoke. It will also substitute the consumption of kerosene and LPG
in the villages and towns to some extent during the periods of stress in supply of these energy sources.
The pilot locations will be selected after a snapshot survey. The project will select 3-5 towns and villages
each along the high ways and 2-3 villages each along the trekking routes for pilot project
implementation. We believe this will spark the information on promotion of briquettes in all potential
areas where many fuel wood and crop residues are directly used as energy for cooking.
About 20 youth entrepreneurs will be trained and equipped with suitable technology, kiln or charring
drums, and accessories for briquette production. About 100 households will be employed with potential
of engaging many seasonal laborers. About 10,000 households will be made aware of the technology
through promotional efforts radio/TV programs, training, leaflets distribution, demonstrations, etc.
Promotion of briquettes will offer an opportunity for a win-win situation to improving access to energy,
good environment, and alleviating poverty situation. The project will help to prepare a cadre of trained
entrepreneurs who will continue to use their gained knowledge and skills for production and
distribution of briquettes in the community.
The monthly reporting will highlight on the progress made, problems faced, and solutions for solving the
problems. At the end of the project, an impact assessment will be carried out and the resultant report
will be submitted as the final project report. The project sites will continue to promote use of briquettes
in a sustainable manner and will go for replication elsewhere in Uganda.
YFC Uganda will also make necessary contacts and enter into MoU with interested local parties, NGOs,
CBOs, private companies and individuals. Necessarily, there will be at least one local partner in each
selected site fully engaged in distribution of briquettes and/or doing promotional activities
Objective
The specific objectives, thus, are provided as follows:
• To promote the use of more efficient and cleaner briquettes among the users of fuel wood/charcoal
that requires frequent trips to collect or buy fuel wood causing health hazards due to indoor air
pollution.
• To utilize the unwanted biomass resources such as banana peels that constituted 50% of the urban
waste (garbage) and convert it into briquettes to substitute the use of fuel wood and charcoal, which is
the major cause of deforestation and environment degradation in Uganda

• To generate over 50 self-employment to the collectors (youth) of raw materials, transporters, dealers
and entrepreneurs who produce and distribute briquettes to the users.

• To promote food-based micro enterprises with the use of briquettes as source of energy, e.g. roasting
meat, corn, and various other foodstuffs for immediate sale.

. results the project plans to achieve

• Main town on the high way of bushanyi, kabwohe and ishaka as well as ibanda and Mbarara
municipality will be covered as pilot project sites for briquettes promotion and dissemination.
• Three entrepreneurs from each town (15 entrepreneurs). will be trained and equipped with suitable
technology, kiln or charring drums, crushing manually or with machine, moulds and manual or machine
compressing, etc. for briquette production.
• About a minimum of 450 to 720 poor households (women and men) will be employed in the process
of briquette making and distribution, from collection of raw material biomass to briquette making to
transportation and distribution of the same. There could be many more laborers that are seasonal
involved.
• During the piloting period, about 10,000 households around the project sites will be made aware of
the technology through promotional efforts (awareness raising efforts such as mass communication
through radio/TV programs, orientation/training sessions, information leaflets publication and
distribution, demonstrations, etc.) and let them be promoters for future expansion of achieving project
objectives all over Uganda.

Justification
The Benefits of Briquetting
• Briquetting reduces waste volumes by up to 90% with considerable savings on disposal and transport
costs.
• By briquetting, it is possible to produce high calorific value, quality fuel briquettes.
• Briquetting waste means a considerable reduction of fine dusts and other wastes through compression
of the material, into clean and compact briquettes.
• Reduction in the danger of fires and explosions by briquetting flammable waste the economic solution
to costly fire prevention measures when using a briquette maker.
• Whatever aspects are important to you such as volume reduction, disposal, logistics, or the profitable
recycling of your waste, briquetting presses are the reliable solution, which can be tailor-made to suit
your specific requirements.

. Beneficiaries.

• The project officials will contact local agencies or CBOs to involve in the venture if they are interested.
• The project will build the capacity of all interested parties, individuals, CBO, NGO, GO and private
companies from all selected pilot project sites through capacity building training courses. The number of
beneficiaries who would be converted into entrepreneurs ranges from 45 to 72.
• Besides, 50 youth would also receive self-employment in the process of biomass collection,
production, transportation and distribution of briquettes during the pilot period with more potential to
grow this number after the pilot phase.
• Some 10,000-user households would also get information on the advantages of using briquettes and
60% of them would have already started using briquettes instead of fuel wood /charcoal improving their
life style from using smoky and less efficient fuel wood/charcoal with a potential of health hazard to
cleaner and more efficient energy alternative – briquettes

Main type of intervention Support for /promotion of youth-led action

Main theme Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Objective(s) of the project

Objective
The specific objectives, thus, are provided as follows:

• To promote the use of more efficient and cleaner briquettes among the users of fuel wood/charcoal
that requires frequent trips to collect or buy fuel wood causing health hazards due to indoor air
pollution.
• To utilize the unwanted biomass resources such as banana peels that constituted 50% of the urban
waste (garbage) and convert it into briquettes to substitute the use of fuel wood and charcoal, which is
the major cause of deforestation and environment degradation in Uganda

• To generate over 100 self-employment to the collectors (youth) of raw materials, transporters, dealers
and entrepreneurs who produce and distribute briquettes to the users.

• To promote food-based micro enterprises with the use of briquettes as source of energy, e.g. roasting
meat, corn, and various other foodstuffs for immediate sale.
List the concrete results the project plans to achieve
• Main town on the high way of bushanyi, kabwohe and ishaka as well as ibanda and Mbarara
municipality will be covered as pilot project sites for briquettes promotion and dissemination.
• Three entrepreneurs from each town (15 entrepreneurs). will be trained and equipped with suitable
technology, kiln or charring drums, crushing manually or with machine, moulds and manual or machine
compressing, etc. for briquette production.
• About a minimum of 450 to 720 poor households (women and men) will be employed in the process
of briquette making and distribution, from collection of raw material biomass to briquette making to
transportation and distribution of the same. There could be many more laborers that are seasonal
involved.
• During the piloting period, about 10,000 households around the project sites will be made aware of
the technology through promotional efforts (awareness raising efforts such as mass communication
through radio/TV programs, orientation/training sessions, information leaflets publication and
distribution, demonstrations, etc.) and let them be promoters for future expansion of achieving project
objectives all over Uganda.

Justification
The Benefits of Briquetting
• Briquetting reduces waste volumes by up to 90% with considerable savings on disposal and transport
costs.
• By briquetting, it is possible to produce high calorific value, quality fuel briquettes.
• Briquetting waste means a considerable reduction of fine dusts and other wastes through compression
of the material, into clean and compact briquettes.
• Reduction in the danger of fires and explosions by briquetting flammable waste the economic solution
to costly fire prevention measures when using a briquette maker.
• Whatever aspects are important to you such as volume reduction, disposal, logistics, or the profitable
recycling of your waste, briquetting presses are the reliable solution, which can be tailor-made to suit
your specific requirements
Proposed project’s contribution to the objectives and activities of the country action plans
Briquette production facilities – which have to be located near rural areas, close to where the banana
peels are produced in quantity and dumped – will generate additional economic activity in the pilot
project sites. Transporting the feedstock to the plants and distributing briquettes produced will also
benefit rural areas. Briquettes bring environmental benefit when environment is improved through less
use of fuel wood as well as production of native banana used for producing briquettes. There can be
significant gains in reducing erosion and in improving environment quality as well. Even people who do
not produce briquettes are benefited because of improvement in air quality and reduction in reliance on
fossil fuels.
Access to energy sources is linked to development and to alleviating poverty. Energy is first needed to
satisfy the basic needs of cooking and heating, then to producing power needed for income generating
activities, which will break the cycle of poverty. Thus, promotion of briquettes offers an opportunity for
a win-win-win situation for improving access to energy, good environment, and alleviating poverty
situation. Many other benefits could occur to the community from promotion of briquettes. By using
improved cooking fuel, the biomass briquettes, women in the pilot project sites will ameliorate or
eliminate problems related to indoor air pollution caused by burning biomass fuels. Greater efficiency
will reduce the amount of fuel families need for cooking and heating and thereby the amount that needs
to be collected or purchased saving their time and money. The project also helps to prepare a cadre of
trained entrepreneurs who will continue to use their gained knowledge and skills for production and
distribution of briquettes in the community. The rural enterprises will benefit from a new product for
sale in the marketplace.

Proposed project’s relevance to the Millennium Development Goals

Promotion of briquettes contributes to MDG Goal 3 – promote gender equality and empower women
and Goal 7 – ensure environmental sustainability through use of alternative renewable energy sources.
Promotion of cleaner and more efficient briquettes for cooking saves time of women who devote much
of their time in the kitchen works, and protects them from smoke related diseases. Children and baby
infants, who generally cook with their mothers, would also get rid of smoke related diseases with the
use of briquettes instead of polluting fuel wood. Renewable energy development is one of the priority
areas of Ugandan Government.
Given the relief variation and difficulty in providing access to electricity from the national grid, use of
alternate sources of energy and technology would have positive benefits to fuel substitution as well in
the prevention of indoor air pollution and other health hazards thereby contributing to MDGs 4 and 5
(reduce child mortality and improve maternal health through reduction of indoor air/smoke related
disease like acute respiratory infection (ARI) affecting mainly newly born and young children and their
mother who are exposed to smoke during cooking and food preparation. Recently use of alternative
energy sources has gained momentum. Biogas, improved cook stoves (ICS) and lately promotion of
briquettes have
been found effective in reducing or reversing deforestation. These are also fo.und employing
rural people in the process contributing to reduction of poverty situation. The project
concept is also in line with Government. plan as briquette is one of the energy alternative derived from
abundantly available biomass (banana peels)

Sustainability & Risks.

1. Project sustainability after completion, both institutionally and financially
The project will sustain after the completion of one-year project tenure. Since, promotion of briquettes
provide economic incentives to all those involved in the process, there is more or less a guarantee for
the
continuity of the process once the chain of beneficiaries have a taste of the potential gains from their
involvement. Biomass collectors, briquette producers, transporters, and distributors get financial reward
in the form of ser vice charges, wages, and profit margins; while users save their time and money
otherwise spent in collection or purchase of less efficient fuel wood, which also necessitates them to
spend money in treating smoke related eye and respiratory diseases. The expected increase in the
demand
for briquettes would encourage the private firms to continue their production, while the CBO and NGO
in
the locality would get job to mobilize the forest users groups (FUGs) or other women and men‟s groups
for involving in the process. They will need to prepare training plans for various target groups in the
community and beyond and thus, continue to get opportunity to serve people.
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Implementation strategy

Implementation methodology.
• Immediately after the award of the proposed project, a snap shot survey will be carried out to locate 5
to
6 villages along a minimum of 3 trekking routes and 4 to 5 towns and villages along the east-west and
north-south high ways in western region as pilot project sites for briquettes promotion and
dissemination.
• There after an inception report with detailed plan of activities and implementation schedule will be
prepared and submitted for approval.
• Comments and suggestions of the partner organization and findings of the snap shot survey and
consultations with the stakeholders, and available secondary data will be used as guidance for finalizing
the inception report for implementation.
• Three entrepreneurs from each town will be selected based on their interest and time availability.
• Awareness raising efforts will also be carried out through mass media such as radio and TV programs
besides carrying out a number of orientation and training sessions at various locations.
• A series of appropriate capacity building training courses for different target groups, entrepreneurs
and
other associated villagers will be designed and conducted at all pilot sites.
• Information leaflets publication and distribution, and demonstrations of the technology will be carried
out in all the selected pilot project sites.
• A team of experts from YFC Uganda will consult with the local and national stakeholders, identify the
services required including capacity building training and other material support and expedite them in
time.
• Monitoring and feed back mechanism for overseeing the project implementation will be designed and
put in place. Regular monthly progress reporting and problem solving suggestions will be gathered and
reviewed for making correct and timely decisions.
6. Expected capacity building results and tools
• A team of experts from YFC Uganda has consulted with the local and national stakeholders, identified
the services required including capacity building training and other materials required to expedite
implementation of project activities.
• More than 10,000 households during pilot phase are made aware of the use of briquettes through
mass
media, radio and TV programs, information leaflets publication, distribution and demonstrations of the
technology.
• At least 60% of these households started demanding with a huge demand for briquettes for cooking
and
heating purposes.
• Selected youth are well trained and equipped with suitable technology in briquette making.
• At least 50 people would have received self-employment in the process of production and distribution
of
briquettes.
• Monitoring and feed back mechanism for overseeing the project implementation is put in place for
further dissemination of this technology elsewhere in the country.
Knowledge dissemination plan/tools
The key project staff of YFC Uganda will consult and design the knowledge dissemination plan and tools
to include in the detailed inception report once the project is selected for funding. The project team will
use mass media such as local and national radio and TV for broadcasting or televising the short
programs
on the promotion of briquettes as a better alternative source of energy for cooking and heating
purposes. It
will also conduct practical orientation demonstration on the production and use of briquettes and its
economy. It will also publish bulletins and information brochures for distribution among the potential
users and entrepreneurs in the selected project communities. Awareness programs and orientation
sessions with visuals and hands on practical sessions will also be carried out in sufficient numbers. The
potential local partners and entrepreneurs will be identified later during the snapshot survey, which may
include CBO, NGO, private organizations, individuals and line agencies.
The overall activity plan and budget required will be prepared now and the detailed work plan and
budgeting will be included in the inception report for implementation of project activities not exceeding
the approved budget. The snapshot visit to the potential areas and identifying the potential partners
and
consultation with them will reveal the pragmatic implementation plan, later. However, the overall
tentative activity plan is provided below

Beneficiaries Out-of-school youth

Implementing organization(s)

Implementing 2
Environmental Conservation Community for Sustainable Development (ECCOSD) +256706157435
AYAPS-ambitious youth against poverty society +256700158020
ACYDE-action for youth development +256702065379

Institutional partners

Project duration (months) 24

Timeframe

Preparation plan
Snapshot Survey of the potential pilot sites 1st month
Drafting and Submitting an Inception Report 1st month
Incorporating comments & finalization of IR 1st month
Partner and fundraising 1rd-2rd month
Selection of entrepreneurs and LPOs 2nd month
Consultation with local/national stakeholders 2nd month
Preparation of radio & TV programs 2nd month
Preparation & production of information sets
Preparation of training curriculum 1st month
Preparation of strategic implementation plan 2nd month

Implementation Plan
Awareness through radio/TV programs/ 3-5th month
Awareness through visits and information sets 3-5 month
Orientation/training for selected entrepreneurs 2nd month
Delivery of equipment and accessories 1-2nd month
Production of briquettes by entrepreneurs 3rdmonth
Transportation and distribution of briquettes 4thmonth

Monitoring and Reporting Plan

Process monitoring 3rd-8thmonth
Progress Reporting 2rdmonth
Result monitoring/impact assessment 6-12thmonth

Overall budget (US$) 25,000

Budget Breakdown

(please indicate roughly the budget envisaged for the main lines of expenditure needed for the project’s
implementation)

Conferences, meetings $ 2000

Training seminars, courses $ 3300

Fellowships, study grants $

Consultants $ 2000

Supplies and equipment $ 14000

Publications, translations, reproduction $ 1200

Miscellaneous (please specify) $ 2500

Monitoring, reporting and evaluation

Implementation monitoring,evaluation and reporting plan

Process monitoring will be done once the trained entrepreneurs start the production of briquettes.
While progress reporting of all project activities including those of preparation plan phase will be done
at the end of each month. The progress reporting will highlight on the progress made, problems faced
suggested solutions for solving the problems and looking forward for further improvement. At the end
of the project, an impact assessment will be carried out and the resultant report will be submitted as the
final project report to the management and stakeholders. We make sure that the project sites will
continue to produce and distribute briquettes to the local community in a sustainable manner. We will
also make efforts from our own to promote replication of the project activities elsewhere in Uganda
after the project tenure is over
Evaluation

The project will be evaluated at the end of each 3-month following its official launch. After year 1 an
independent review will be undertaken to document progress against all Strategic Objectives and
highlight areas that need particular attention. The end of year 1 will be treated as being a key
assessment of the implementation, management and leadership arrangements. It will be important to
establish lessons at this stage and to take any corrective actions necessary to ensure effective
implementation for the remaining project period.

Between year 2 and 3, a substantive independent mid-term review will be undertaken to judge overall
progress and to establish the extent to which the project and access to income and employment
programs and services have been implemented. At the end of the project period, a formal post
programme evaluation will be undertaken. This evaluation will address the extent and quality of
implementation of the banana peels briquette project in terms of outcomes achieved, impact,
sustainability, factors influencing implementation and will document lessons to be learnt for the
continuity.

We make sure that the project sites will continue to produce and distribute briquettes to the local
community in a sustainable manner. We will also make efforts from our own to promote replication of
the project activities elsewhere in Uganda after the project tenure is over.

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