In the last edition of the Drummer, we mentioned some of the difficulties NDEF encounters in movingaround and getting out to the field. In the absence of a car and in particular now that we are well intothe rainy season, sometimes we struggle a great deal to reach some of the more cut-off farms andareas […]
What have we been doing?Readers of the NDEF Drummer cannot have failed to notice that this is the first edition to be publishedsince April 2007. While we apologise for this gap in the update of our activities, we hopeyou would understand the reasons for this. You will recall that the last edition announced thebeginning of […]
2Way Development, a UK based non government organisation that specialises in placing long termvolunteers has arranged and placed Gemma Stanbridge at the service of NDEF. It would berecalled that Gemma is the second volunteer placed at NDEF by 2Way Development since westarted partnership in September 2006 when Jonathan Philips started work with NDEF. Wesaid a […]
On 11th July, NDEF was host to the latest quarterly meeting of the North West Association of Development Organisations (NWADO). Formerly North West NGO Forum, NWADO changed its name toaccommodate expansion of its membership to a diverse range of development actors in the Province, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organisations (CSOs) and governmentrepresentatives. NWADO’s […]
NDEF, in Collaboration with ICRAF-WCA-HT and the Mbengwi Area Food Crop Cooperative did organisea three-day workshop in Sang (Mbengwi) to train nine (09) Common Initiative Groups in Momo Divisionon the technologies of tree domestication and agroforestry. The over thirty participants came fromGuzang, Bessi-Fomnkong, Njimetu, Kai, Njinezi, Njinibi, Chenam, Nkwokong, and of course, Sangwhere the workshop […]