Kilkenny LEADER Partnership - Mid Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Programme Performance Monitoring Management, Research & Evaluation.

Tender description

The Mid-Leinster Farmer Wellbeing Project will aim to recruit 100 farmers in the region to participate in developing a social support network via a training in action programme through this EIP Programme. Increasingly rural communities can be bereft of the “meitheal” of old, a community and social structure that is sadly mostly passed in many places. The objective of the project is to draw farmers together to learn new skills and share experiences (traditional building skills / willow making / hedge laying) and to participate in restorative adventure activities that they would usually not have access to or possibly afford. This programme aims to engage the group at an open day, asking the individuals about their current social interactions, digital literacy, skills, and compliance worries. Taking a data driven approach on their distance travelled during their participation of this “new social structure” in Mid Leinster. Data will be used to iterate each programme customising it depending on needs, with each farmer working on their own personal progression. The dissemination of the aggregated data plus the ongoing monthly meet up will create both sustainability and added value to the project. Governance will be a very important feature of this project, objectives and outcomes will be reported and reviewed on an ongoing basis. Dissemination is the final stage of this project where data from the distance travelled, and post program evaluation will be shared across other leader partnerships. From this data, it is hoped that this methodology can be resourced the new programme funding and applied to other cohorts and rolled out nationally. The data driven approach that this project will take will make the work of dissemination easier in terms of, sharing of lessons learned from the project. Given that the emphasis of EIP’s is on the creation of knowledge, which is freely available for the use of all, we aim to create a conference event at the end of the project to show case the lessons learned. Ongoing individual and g