Bamban is an extension and training center attached to the Ministry of Agriculture's SERPROCA. It is located 3km from the prefectural capital on the Kindia Telimelé national road, in the Koliady II district. Built on the site of former banana fields, the Bamban Center was created in 1976 thanks to Sino-Guinean cooperation, with a capacity of sixty (60) places.
The center's mission is to train managers and producers in agricultural product processing techniques, provide practical training for trainees from agronomic institutes, and many other agricultural and forestry fields, including training in agricultural machinery. However, the center has encountered a number of problems in carrying out its mission, including the low level of agro-ecology training for managers, the poor state of the works on the farm, and insufficient logistical resources.
This project will improve the center's institutional framework and extend its reach by integrating the sub-regional platform of agroecology training centers. In addition, the project will improve the administrative, technical and financial management and monitoring of all the center's activities, train a number of rural stakeholders at the center on solutions to their problems, build the capacity of the center's managers in agroecological systems skills to better train learners, increase the center's intake capacity and training quality, renew the infrastructure and increase the equipment and teaching materials.
It is a project that revitalizes the center's operations, consolidates the achievements of previous projects, and completes, rectifies and improves on shortcomings committed during implementation. Essentially, it aims to contribute to improving the center's agroecology training courses by strengthening the capacities of managers, trainers and producers, by acquiring teaching materials and equipment, by managing teaching and production units, by monitoring and advising trainees, and by capitalizing on results.
General objective: To improve the quantity and quality of agroecology training for the Bamban center's executive trainers and graduates from higher education institutions, vocational schools and producers.
Specific objectives
01.02.03.04.In addition to training (including exchange visits for managers) for the center's managers and staff on various technical and administrative topics, including the search for funding and partnerships, the project's strategy is based on strengthening the center's institutional structure, recruiting and training new learners, and acquiring teaching materials and agricultural equipment.) In addition, we will be renovating some of the center's infrastructure, as well as the pelagic and apprenticeship units. Ongoing training for farmers and former beneficiaries of the center is also part of the intervention strategy.
Outcome 1
- 8 trainers reinforced in the practice of agroecology (systems approach)
Outcome 2
- 4 trainers reinforced in research and development of productive and strategic partnerships.
Outcome 3
- Business plan and 2023-2024 action plan drawn up
Outcome 4
- 3 agroecology training modules produced
Outcome 5
- A manual for agroecology producers developed
Outcome 6
- The communication capacity of 13 center managers strengthened and improved,
Outcome 7
- 70 young learners practice agroecology resilient to their environment,
