Welcome to Farmers Integrated Development Association (FIDA)

FIDA builds the leadership of Farmers, Children and Women in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management for Agro Economics Development and Gender Equality

The realization that the needs of the rural population in district Vehari were not being adequately researched motivated the community activists to establish the Farmers Integrated Development Association (FIDA) for the development of small farmers, agricultural and economic needs of rural communities. FIDA, for change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, is a small farmer-le d Pakistan-based not-for-profit Organization of Farmers, Children and Women professionals that provides expertise to assist agriculture and natural resource management organizations’ mainstream gender into their programs, projects and internal structures.

Founded in 2006, FIDA was registered in 2007 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. FIDA consists of 67 committed and motivated trained activists/trainers (Male & Female) through Farmers Training of Facilitators (FToF), Farmer Field School (FFS), Women Open School (WOS) and Children Ecological Club (CEC) approaches.

Over the years, the FIDA brief widened to include the following;

• Improve the quality of life of rural people by enabling them to make maximum use of the resources available to them.
• Conduct research that will promote rural development with active involvement of small farmers, women, youth & children.
• Provide specialist’s advice in the fields of agriculture and rural development.
• Interface between the expertise and knowledge available at the different agro based institutions/organizations on one hand and the expressed development needs of the people on other.
• Actively seek funding for rural communities to implement development projects and play an important supportive role in those projects.
• Training and capacity building through organizing specialized training courses for people involved in agriculture and rural development.
• Involve postgraduate students in the FIDA projects thus providing trained personnel with experience in rural development.