Develop an Integrated Farming Project, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop an Integrated Farming Project

Organisation of African Youth - Cameroon

TASK

The volunteers will be helping us develop an integrated farm project. The project will seek to increase crop production and livestock production while educating youths on the benefit.

The volunteers will be expected to finalise the project by September and all necessary inputs from the community will be provided by the our organization. we will exchange emails with the volunteers to provide the best inputs from the community as well as technical reports

Number of volunteers: 3

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This project will start an integrated farm and will train youths to start small integrated farms. This project aims at putting youths as actors in food security.

OBJECTIVE

The project will seek to promote entrepreneurship of youths through agriculture because
-it uses low external inputs in farming
-increased production and productivity of crops and livestock.
-It makes maximum use of smaller household
farm size
-Income and food security especially for the poorcan be improved
-Everybody can practice it
-It is environmentally friendly
-It is sustainable
-It sequestrates carbon in the soil, thus
becoming a solution to global warming

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Food and agriculture
Youth

REQUIREMENTS

Agronomist or related knowledge will be an advantage

Areas of expertise

Agriculture, forestry and fishery

Languages

English

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

5

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Develop an Integrated Farming Project, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop an Integrated Farming Project

Organisation of African Youth - Cameroon

TASK

The volunteers will be helping us develop an integrated farm project. The project will seek to increase crop production and livestock production while educating youths on the benefit.

The volunteers will be expected to finalise the project by September and all necessary inputs from the community will be provided by the our organization. we will exchange emails with the volunteers to provide the best inputs from the community as well as technical reports

Number of volunteers: 3

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This project will start an integrated farm and will train youths to start small integrated farms. This project aims at putting youths as actors in food security.

OBJECTIVE

The project will seek to promote entrepreneurship of youths through agriculture because
-it uses low external inputs in farming
-increased production and productivity of crops and livestock.
-It makes maximum use of smaller household
farm size
-Income and food security especially for the poorcan be improved
-Everybody can practice it
-It is environmentally friendly
-It is sustainable
-It sequestrates carbon in the soil, thus
becoming a solution to global warming

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Food and agriculture
Youth

REQUIREMENTS

Agronomist or related knowledge will be an advantage

Areas of expertise

Agriculture, forestry and fishery

Languages

English

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

5

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Develop an Integrated Farming Project, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop an Integrated Farming Project

Organisation of African Youth - Cameroon

TASK

The volunteers will be helping us develop an integrated farm project. The project will seek to increase crop production and livestock production while educating youths on the benefit.

The volunteers will be expected to finalise the project by September and all necessary inputs from the community will be provided by the our organization. we will exchange emails with the volunteers to provide the best inputs from the community as well as technical reports

Number of volunteers: 3

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This project will start an integrated farm and will train youths to start small integrated farms. This project aims at putting youths as actors in food security.

OBJECTIVE

The project will seek to promote entrepreneurship of youths through agriculture because
-it uses low external inputs in farming
-increased production and productivity of crops and livestock.
-It makes maximum use of smaller household
farm size
-Income and food security especially for the poorcan be improved
-Everybody can practice it
-It is environmentally friendly
-It is sustainable
-It sequestrates carbon in the soil, thus
becoming a solution to global warming

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Food and agriculture
Youth

REQUIREMENTS

Agronomist or related knowledge will be an advantage

Areas of expertise

Agriculture, forestry and fishery

Languages

English

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

5

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Help Identify Donors and Develop Proposal on Watershed Protection for Hospital and adjacent Communities, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop project proposal on youth participatin in electoral process, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop project proposal on youth participatin in electoral process, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop project proposal on youth participatin in electoral process

Organisation of African Youth - Cameroon

TASK

The task is to write a project proposal on youth participation in the electoral process in Cameroon.

We are ready to work with the volunteers for as long as it takes to make this project a success. We estimate the project to started by January 2013. we will work closely with the volunteers by providing information from the field, online meetings to access the project etc

Number of volunteers: 2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The idea of the project comes from the lack of youth participation in elections and different policies for young people to increase their voting participation. The project will take place Cameroon 2012. The project is focusing on training 30 youths from ten regions of Cameroon to take an active role in the political life of the country and to increase ability of youth to evaluate different political parties and their different policies for local area.

OBJECTIVE

Increasing the awareness of the importance of youth participation in democratic processes by registering and voting;
Fostering young people to get better consciousness for their decisions in voting;
Understanding the electoral system in Cameroon;
Raising awareness about what democratic and transparent elections are.
Creating creative messages and posters to promote youth participation. These posters will be pasted on major billboards in Cameroon

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Youth

REQUIREMENTS

We need volunteers with skills in project development, planning and writing of award winning proposals.

Areas of expertise

Social and behavioral science

Languages

English, French

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

24

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Develop project for youth sensitization on HIV/AIDS and job creation, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop project for youth sensitization on HIV/AIDS and job creation, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop project for youth sensitization on HIV/AIDS and job creation

Twantoh Mixed Farming Group

TASK

Help identify potential donors as well as writing convincing funding proposals that are targeted to the individual donors requirements on sensitizing 500 youths on HIV/AIDS and training on job creation during the summer holidays. Each Volunteer shall develop project and identify donors.

Each Volunteer will work from May,June and July 2012. We shall supply them all information needed to accomplish the tasks. They shall work individually to develop project and identify donors. Volunteers will either be English or French speakers. Communication will be through email and sometimes on phone.

Number of volunteers: 2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

The goal of MIFACIG is to alleviate poverty through the sustainable management of natural resources in rural area. This involves training people to produce valuable planting material and increase food production while encouraging environmental protection . MIFACIG is using sensitization and trainings as a tool to empower local communities.

OBJECTIVE

Sensitization on HIV/Aids, Job creation is a vital tool for community Youths empowerment. To provide youths with sustainable vision in a healthy environment and a healthy people

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Health
Income generation and employment

REQUIREMENTS

Areas of expertise

None in particular
Social and behavioral science

Languages

English, French

Hours per week

11-20

Duration in weeks

10

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Help develop and implement fundraising strategies, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Help develop and implement fundraising strategies

Leaders of Tomorrow International

TASK

Leaders of Tomorrow International is in need of committed volunteers to write grant proposals, research potential donors, and formulate strategies for fundraising.

Volunteers will not submit funding requests on behalf of our organization.

16th of April is the Deadline to apply for this opportunity.

We will keep in contact via email, Skype, yahoomessenger and Facebook. This is an ongoing assignment with no firm deadline.

Number of volunteers: 2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Leaders of Tomorrow International is a non profit organization that obtains scholarships from online universities for unprivileged youths who cannot afford university education. Then we give them the opportunity to come to our resource center each day to freely use our internet connection and mini library till they finally graduate from their respective online universities.

OBJECTIVE

In order to develop our activities and our programs, we need a stable financial basis.

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Income generation and employment
Youth

REQUIREMENTS

Proficient at online research.

Background in fundraising, advertising, marketing, and/or non-profit preferred.

Strong writing, time-management, and online collaboration skills.

If you are interested in undertaking this task, please submit a CV, and clearly outline how your previous experience will be an asset to the assignment.

Areas of expertise

Business and administration
Journalism and information

Languages

English

Hours per week

11-20

Duration in weeks

52

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Develop architectural design of RUDEC office building, Cameroon

Develop architectural design of RUDEC office building

Rural Development Centre -Cameroon

TASK

Develop architectural design of RUDEC office building in a 2 meter by 7m land square. RUDEC has being hosting the office on a small house of the founder. The children are growing up now and project work needs to be separated from private home.This office will have the Director, project manager,project coordinators rooms, a store and conference room. There will be a total of 5 rooms in a one storey building.

The deadline is 15 September 2012.This project will be duration is 4 months. RUDEC will collaborate with the volunteer to reach target.

Number of volunteers: 2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

RUDEC as any other organisation need an office and we think it will not be sustainable to be in the house of the founder. Since we have little resource we want to manage them well to have an office that will last us.

OBJECTIVE

To design architectural design of the RUDEC office

To provide the plan in word and pdf format send to RUDEC.

To build the capacity of RUDEC and provide better support to orphans

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Integration of marginalized groups

REQUIREMENTS

The volunteer needs to have a background on architectural designs and writing and editing skills.

Areas of expertise

Architecture and building

Languages

English

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

16

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Develop Architectural Design of a Vocational Institute Building for Institute, Cameroon

Develop architectural design of a vocational institute buildingfor Institute

Community Agriculture and Environmental Protection Association (CAEPA)

TASK

Volunteers are expected to design the school, do the costing for materials as well to enable CAEPA have a clue of the entire cost.

The deadlines for the project is September. CAEPA Cameroon will furnish volunteers with the different section of the institute, demonstration plots. The online collaboration will be managed by CAEPA Cameroon coordinator who will distribute the task to the volunteers.

Number of volunteers: 10

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

CAEPA Cameroon has been working with farmers in Cameroon sin 2007.CAEPA Cameroon has carried out different research projects on soil improvement and livestock production. CAEPA Cameroon is now coming up with an institute of sustainable Development where community members will be trained on how to sustainably manage their natural resources for present and future generation of Cameroonians.

OBJECTIVE

CAEPA Cameroon evisage the improvement of the production and productivity of farmers in the sustainable management of natural resources through the creation of an institutte for sustainable development.

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Food and agriculture
Youth

REQUIREMENTS

Architecture and design.

Areas of expertise

Architecture and building

Languages

English

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

28

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