AKIS AID

AKIS Aid is a Management Information System that records, stores, disseminates and analyzes data collected on extension services as well as advisory services from rural women farmers. The solution enable users - especially women in agriculture in remote rural communities - with a mobile phone to access extension, advisory technical advice, and market prices within the coverage of the mobile phone network. It combines mobile phone access with database information system and data collection to intuitively provide latest weather, average market prices, nearest periodic market (Louma) locations, radio stations with agricultural information programs, fertilizer and seed vendor access details, contact information for Agricultural Business Centers (ABCs) and Financial Service Associations (FSAs)... In October 2020, with support from the European Union, Trócaire Sierra Leone established the Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS) Aid in collaboration with its implementing..

Primary location: Freetown Sierra Leone