Capacity building Burundi

Weather Impact conducted a series of trainings on the content, use and interpretation of weather information within agriculture. The trainings are delivered to all AUXFIN staff: key, master and super activators. Key activators will then disseminate the information to the farmers using specifically designed digital tools. Super- and master activators supervise key activators. Additionally, Weather Impact carried out one higher-level training to the national meteorological institute (IGEBU, Institut Géographique du Burundi).

In total, 15 trainings are given to ca. 800 activators. Key activators have direct contact with the G50 farmers (groups of 50 households) and needs to be able to explain the AgriCoach and the weather information in there directly to them. In the end, 500.000 farmer households are empowered with essential climate information. We anticipate that our trainings strengthen the value that Burundian smallholder farmers can obtain from AgriCoach.