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Following a comprehensive Training Needs Assessment in Riana Location, Suneka with local elders, farmers, small businesses, and youth, Kisii University delivered practical, hands-on training across four key areas.
School of Business & Economics
The assessment revealed that while many residents of Riana Location possess innovative ideas and a strong desire to work, they lack structured business management skills and financial management skills.
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School of Agriculture & Natural Resource Management
The assessment revealed that smallholder farmers in Riana Location face declining crop yields due to prolonged soil degradation, overreliance on expensive chemical fertilizers, and limited knowledge of eco-friendly pest control methods. Additionally, traditional poultry rearing practices have led to low productivity and high mortality rates.
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Directorate of Research & Faculty of Environment
Deforestation, poor waste management, and reliance on wood fuel were identified as critical environmental stressors. Community members expressed concern over disappearing tree cover.
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School of Health Sciences
The assessment highlighted gaps in preventive healthcare. Issues included high rates of lifestyle diseases (hypertension, diabetes) linked to diet, and a lack of mental health awareness among the youth and elderly.
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Empowering smallholder farmers, women-led chama groups, and youth in Riana Location through hands-on agribusiness, poultry management, and environmental sustainability training.
Restoring degraded highland watersheds and training over 3,200 smallholders on indigenous tree nurseries, riverbank bamboo buffering, and regenerative soil carbon practices.
Deploying mobile diagnostics, frontline health worker triage training, and micronutrient balanced diet interventions across rural primary healthcare clinics.
Transforming semi-arid horticultural production with low-cost photovoltaic automated drip systems, increasing vegetable yields by 35% while conserving 40% water.
Delivering low-cost multi-layer gravity sand and biochar filtration units to ensure clean, pathogen-free potable water for over 8,500 rural households.
Creating youth green jobs by converting post-harvest banana pseudostem and sugarcane bagasse fiber into durable biodegradable meal containers and seedling pots.
Partner with Kisii University on grassroots extension, clinical outreach, agroforestry, and technology commercialization.