 The Isangati Agricultural Development Organisation is a local, not for
profit non-governmental organisation located in the Mbeya district, in south-west Tanzania.
It was legally registered as a trust fund in January 2001, after being
a project under VECO since 1992. The organisation has acquired a compliance
certificate under the NGO Act No. 24 of 2002 with the name of Isangati
Agricultural Development Organization, IADO. Its office is located in
the Santilya ward, Isangati division.
 IADO works in the Isangati and Usongwe divisions of the Mbeya district. These are part of the Rungwe volcano complex located in the Rift valley between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa. Both divisions have two agroecological zones: the highlands (1800 to 2000 m) and the low lands (1600 to 1800 m). In this area, IADO is
committed to support the efforts of small and medium scale farmers of
the Mbeya district to increase their agricultural production and income
through
- promoting resource-efficient agriculture
- accessing reliable markets, and
- accessing financial services.
In implementing this mission, IADO ensures the participation of the target
group and the collaboration of other stakeholders, taking into account
good governance, gender aspects, HIV/AIDS and the environment.
An exercise in documentation
Between the 4th and
the 8th of September, 2006, IADO took part in
the documentation workshop organised by VECO Tanzania and ILEIA. This
meeting took place in Same, bringing together representatives of different
projects and organisations in order to exchange ideas on documentation
and try the methodology proposed by ILEIA. What follows is the result
of this exercise.The interest of IADO was to document their experience in cloning coffee
plants with specific characterisitcs, as part of their Clonal Graden Project.
The following pages show the three phases of the methodology followed:
 Setting
the boundaries
Describing
the experience
Analysis
How did the process go?
IADO's documentation process was completed when an article was published in the LEISA Magazine, in June 2007. How did the process go? What does the team think about it? Click here to read about this.
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