Action BridgeTechnology Empowerment in Agriculture Initiative
A social development enterprise founded in the year 2010 with headquarters at Zaria, Kaduna State. TEAI partners with mobilized registered CBOs, Community Service Groups, Private Sectors, Philanthropists and Research Institutions towards achieving a holistic development of women, youth and the general populace.
Empowerment through technology and farming
TEAI's mission and vision is to support women and youth at various level towards promoting peace and harmony by introducing new techniques in empowerment, invented technology and in agricultural innovations such as:
Skills Acquisition
Practical trades and enterprise skills for self-reliance.
Good Agricultural Practices
GAP training that lifts yield, quality and food safety.
Idea Incubation
Building the capacity of women and youth in designing and initiating new ideas.
Technology, Empowerment & Agricultural Initiative
Founded: 2010
Registered: 2017
Headquarters: Zaria, Kaduna State
Coverage: Seven North West states
Groups: About 600 women and youth groups
Leadership: Amb. Hajiya Habiba B. Bashir, Executive Director
What TEAI sets out to do
- To provide diversified, affordable and dependable range of technological and agricultural services to the active poor, in a timely and competitive manner, that would enable them to undertake and develop long-term, sustainable entrepreneurial activities and linkage with government agricultural agencies.
- To develop the skills and capacity of the youth and women in technology, empowerment and agricultural activities by defining their needs, problems and aspirations, by suggesting measures and by helping to put them into best practices.
- To identify ways of improving the technology, empowerment and agricultural standards of women and youth and make proper recommendation.
- Create employment opportunities and increase the productivity of the active women and youth.
Organisational values
- Promoting local technology using locally made products.
- Involving Nigerian women and youth in the mainstream of economic growth.
- Economic diversification through investment in agriculture.
- Making agriculture attractive to both women and youth especially the rural dwellers.
- Uniting and empowering the women and youth for self-actualization and economic survival.
Activities and programmes
- Training — targeted groups on Skills Acquisition, Group Dynamics, Advocacy and Entrepreneurship.
- Value-chain synergies — Crop Production; Processing and Aggregation; Improve Family Nutrition and Food Preservation.
- Capacity building — Sensitization on Environmental Compliance Eco-System, Soil and Water Conservation; Sustainable Environment and Climatic Change Adaptation; and Improved Agricultural Technology, Livelihood and Health.
- Collaboration — developing synergies through networking teamwork and striving for quality innovation with all sectors of relevance.
- Community extension network — engaging youth and women between the age of 18 – 35 for males and 18 – 40 for females, stepping down training and becoming mentors and peer models.
- Smallholder productivity — moving youth and women aged 18 – 35 from low yield (average of 2.5 tons per hectare) to above-average performance leading to improved incomes and aggregate physical produce.
Locally made products & achievements
TEAI champions homegrown engineering and practical tools built by Nigerian women and youth.
Accessibility tech
Digital Walking Stick with alarm informer for the blind in Hausa/English/Ibo language; hearing aid for the deaf; special wheel chairs for the disabled.
Power & pumps
Self-running fuel-less generators (5KVA, 10KVA, 15KVA & 20KVA designs); self-engine irrigation pump control running 12 – 13 hours with remote control from the house.
Farm & processing
Underground substance detector for gold, diamond, silver and other precious stones; hatching incubators; groundnut processing machines.
Partnership with more than Three Hundred & Fifty (350) different women and youth associations involved in poultry, snail farming, crop production, bee farming etc.; introduction of more than 5,000 women and youth into beekeeping; training and empowerment of more than 3,000 women and youth in different vocational trade for self-actualization, self-employment and self-reliance.
TEAI programmes & projects
Farmers, makers and innovators
Explore TEAI
Join a training, bring your women or youth group, or support agricultural innovation across the North West.