Capacity building of the Elgin Learning Foundation, a Further Education and Training college for agriculture

Sector

Agriculture Education

Project budget

The maximum budget for this project is € 850,000.

Organisations

This project has been developed by the Elgin Learning Foundation (ELF). The tender for this project expired on 29 January 2010. Nuffic has awarded this tender to Stichting DLO/Centre for Development Innovation (CDI), which has formed a consortium with Van Hall-Larenstein, MDF Training & Consultancy BV and AOC Oost-Nederland.

Project description

This project will support the Elgin Learning Foundation as a FET agricultural college. The project supports:

• the ongoing institutional transformation process (management, cope with growth, strategic planning and HRD);
• further extension and strengthening of the agricultural department, including its applied agro-training programmes, to respond to the labour market, gender and equity, and skills.

The expected main results, with special attention for gender, are:

The ELF transformation process is strengthened:

• ELF's Human Resources policies and management harmonized;
• Management staff and Human Resources developed;

The capacity of the Agriculture Department is enhanced:

• staff developed;
• curriculum developed;
• demonstration plots established;
• specialized training to emerging farmers;
• agricultural action research;
• M&E system in place.

The two target groups are:

• ELF management staff and Agricultural Department staff;
• Emerging farmers, with a focus on female farmers.

Beneficiaries

The final beneficiaries are the land reform beneficiaries and the unemployed in Western Cape Province.