Beneficiary community targeting meeting

The community target meetings were carried out to validate identified beneficiaries as per the project selection criteria and profiling tool. The verification exercise was targeting host and refugee communities living in and around the refugee settlements. It was anticipated that when identified beneficiaries are verified in reference to the selection tools, JEEP was able to select beneficiaries from the communities who met the set criteria and who will in turn be able to pass on the gained knowledge to other community members. These will as well fully support the promotion of alternative energy technologies in the communities.

The target meetings were conducted in the four sub counties of operation; Itirikwa, Ukusijoni, Ciforo and Pachara and their respective refugee settlements of Mungula I, Mungula II, Maaji I, Maaji II, Maaji III, Agojo and Alere.

Specific objectives

• To validate information provided on the profiling tools for the identified beneficiaries.
• To validate whether the project beneficiary selection criteria was followed during the identification of beneficiaries by the local leaders.

Conclusion

The validation exercise of the project beneficiaries was successfully conducted in the four operation Sub-counties and the 7 settlements of Adjumani District with support from the leaders within the Sub-counties and settlements. 150 beneficiaries were verified to be trained as local Artisans. These beneficiaries were thoroughly explained to why the exercise is being conducted and later asked if they are willing to be trained in Energy Saving technologies as far as the JEEP RED-EUTF project is concerned.