The ripple effect
What is our ripple effect?
Families tell us that what they value most about working with Ripple Effect is becoming teachers and donors themselves, sharing their resources and skills with neighbours.
As they learn more, grow more and sell more, a ripple effect of positive change quickly spreads – reaching far beyond the farm.
For every family we work with, we know that another three families benefit. Farmers pass on seeds, livestock (calves, kids, chicks…) and their experience of successfully adapting new techniques.
Byrone Wayodi, Head of Monitoring and Evaluation
Farmers train farmers
At Ripple Effect we know that farmers learn best from other farmers, so we work by training and knowledge-sharing delivered by locally-based staff to community self-help groups (SHGs).
The members of SHGs support each other and exchange experience to create resilient progress that continues long after formal project intervention ends.
Nominated farmers in SHGs are trained to become peer farmers trainers themselves, and extend the knowledge they have acquired more widely.
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