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International Executive Council 

From Left to right : Elfas Mcloud Zadzagomo Shangwa, Executive President & Founder (Hunter's Global Network & FPI),  Kevin Wilson, CEO & Vice President (FPI). Donald Pilai COO & Vice President     (Hunter's Global Network) 

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A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER FPI:

 

I believe leadership is not a solo endeavour. It’s a give-and-take and an exchange between individuals. I define leadership as “a social process that enables individuals to work together as a cohesive group to produce collective results.”

Leadership happens in the interactions and exchanges among people with shared work. It is a social, cohesive, and collective responsibility that emphasizes the group over the individual.

Within a group, diverse skills, perspectives, and expertise come together to create something far greater than the sum of its parts. Individual weaknesses are easily offset by the strengths of others, allowing the team to thrive.

The best leaders share the power and authority of their position without fear of being overshadowed or displaced. They understand that empowering others and fostering collaboration strengthens the entire group, creating an environment where everyone contributes to a shared vision and collective success.

Leadership, in its truest form, is not about individual achievement but about inspiring and enabling a group to reach its full potential together.

I have embraced social processes to build a strong foundation of accountability and transparency in our work. With robust social structures in place, we are empowered to implement and govern systems and frameworks effectively from the grassroots level. These structures serve as the backbone for policy development and implementation, project execution, and monitoring and evaluation, ensuring sustainable progress and impactful outcomes.

By fostering a culture of collaboration and shared responsibility, we are able to achieve the best results. Teamwork is at the heart of our approach, guiding the implementation of our agrifood production strategies and ensuring their success. These efforts are deeply rooted in principles of wisdom and leadership, as demonstrated by biblical strategists who inspire us to lead with purpose and integrity.

I thank you for joining us as part of Farmer's Pride International. Together, we have much to learn from one another as we continue to build this institution. My leadership model is deeply influenced by the biblical examples of Nehemiah and Jethro, who exemplify vision, strategy, and servant leadership: Nehemiah  and  Jethro

(Elfas Mcloud Zadzagomo Shangwa (HUNTER) Executive President and Founder of Hunter's Global Network &  FPI)

 
 
social leadership.

Value-Based Leadership:

 

FPI-I practices value-based leadership, a combination of elements similar to participatory leadership strategies, the difference being that it's a value-based leadership approach is built into the design, management, and often the branding of its agri-business. This kind of leadership approach depends on strong relationships, mutual trust and respect, participation by all, accountability by all, investment by all, strong communication, and an environment that encourages and promotes these principles.  By getting everyone involved, and understanding the day-to-day realities of all members of the organization, leads to improved processes, new insights, untapped opportunities, and overall positive organizational transformation. 

 

The success of FPI-I cluster projects depends on the human and social capital that make up the links in the operational chain—people, networks, and the quality of interconnecting relationships and linkages. Successful leaders from businesses affiliated with FPI-I agree upon values, desirable outcomes, and measures and can speak with one voice about them. Communicating with employees and people at all levels ensures there is a common vision and messaging across the chain. Leaders must be embedded in and committed to the process and parts and must be brokers for both business interests and other negotiated, shared social and environmental goals.

Our practice of inclusive governance has a competitive market advantage in that broad-based involvement provides ample feedback within the system to inform and guide the business through periods of intense change. Yet, inclusive participatory governance can also come at the expense of business efficiency and nimbleness. FPI-I leaders must be vigilant to protect against this potential drag on the system and carefully weigh potential tradeoffs between efficiency and inclusiveness.

 

FPI Leadership Structures and their Functions:

1) International Executive Council (IEC);

2) International General Council (IGC);

3) International Executives (IE);

4) Regional Councillors (RCs) ;

5) National Executive and community structures led by coordinators and farming communities, many of them volunteers.

International Policymaking Structures:

 

The structure is led by the FPI Presidium & and the  (Founding Member)

The office’s duties are in Operations Administration management (OA) it manages the policy development and implementation processes, project activity tools, and standards involved with operating, administering, managing, and maintaining any program and activity systems in FPI.

The policy-development office works with all policymaking structures across the world, including continental leadership under the 7 Vice Presidents, Regional leadership under the International General Council, and regional councillors. 

The International General Council is led by Continental Vice Presidents and their regional leadership structures.

Working together with these structures we become the Chief Policymakers of the FPI, we work to make the organization functional and attractive to donors and funders and to work in harmony with different host governments across the world. These structures stand as FPI project monitoring systems, from grassroots, regional, continental, and international.

 

International Project implementation and management structures:

This structure is led by the International Executive, which falls under the leadership of the CEO a renowned economist who is the leader of the organization's day-to-day activities and leads FPI sitting on both the IEC and the IGC, not as a policymaker but as its ex-officio, the CEO is the ley leader of FPI, besides leading FPI project he also influences policy-making processes and policy adoption as he is the one who shapes the FPI activities through his day to day leadership of the organization.

The CEO is deputized by many deputies from different levels who have different functions at the regional and international levels. First amongst the leadership are the following officials:

  1. The Office of the Finance Controller (Fin-Co) Internal Auditor, or Compliance Executive, is a very crucial office that carries the responsibility for the setting up of financial policies, implementation, auditing, recruitment of finance admin staff, as well as managing FPI finances at the community, national, regional, and international levels, continental, regional, and national levels. This office also sets up, works, and monitors fundraising and marketing teams.

  2. The office of the Senior Executive Director, who is responsible for capacity building, is an important office responsible for shaping our leadership into what we expect to get out of them, starting from starting branches, setting up of structures, management, and operations.

  3. The office of the Senior Executive Director is responsible for the agroecology project, this office has several sub-offices attached to it in line with several activities under the agroecology project.

  4. The office of the Executive Director is responsible for membership and the Microfinance Credit Scheme; this office is held by a person with both financial and administrative skills and a good track record in handling and managing people and money. They are responsible for recruitment, data management, and running self-help microfinance credit schemes. 

  5. The office of the Executive Director, responsible for Monitoring and Evaluation, looks at the input-transformation-output processes and enables a search for efficiency and optimization by rearranging or changing the processes ( Deliverables on all our activities)

  6. Executive Director responsible for the Integration of technology into Agriculture, This office integrates effective knowledge management strategies, incorporating the producer's knowledge and responding to the technology user's needs.

 

      With the above structures at the international level, FPI is going far and will win on   

      all its projects.

 

FPI Governance is composed of 6 constitutional governance structures, namely:

 

The International Executive Council (IEC): 

 

This is the FPI’s highest  International Governing body, currently led by the Executive President and founder of the FPI, composed of 6 officials: the Executive President, the Deputy Executive President, the Chief Executive, an advisor to the President, and 3 other Executive Members.

 

The governance body is responsible for the approval of projects and policies agreed upon by the International General Council (IGC). The body meets 3 times each year physically but holds several online sittings to approve and deliberate on matters arising from the organization's operations; this Executive arm of the FPI meets with all governance bodies at regular intervals.

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The International Executive or the (International Secretariat) :

 

 The international Executive is the FPI Secretariat, a body that is led by the Chief Executive Officer who is deputized by several Senior Executive Directors. These two are the most important individuals in FPI as they are the leaders of the organization and who give strategic direction at the international level, this body runs and operates FPI on a daily basis and consists of different program officials, working at the FPI HQ and as well as Continental and regional offices, it recruits membership and employees makes program decisions and implements agreed on activities across the world working with country chapters in consultation with the IGC structures and the approval of the IEC, the International executive meets with the IEC on several occasions both virtually and in person. 

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FPI Governance
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It is a global governing body comprised of seven Vice Presidents, each representing a different continent. These Vice Presidents serve a term of three years and are eligible for re-election. The Vice Presidents rotate the position of IGC Chairperson annually, with each serving as Chair for a 12-month period. As a result, the leadership of the IGC rotates across continents every year.

Supporting the Vice Presidents are regional chairpersons, one of whom is elected as the Executive Chairperson. The Executive Chairperson serves as the deputy to the Continental Vice President and assumes their role in the Vice President's absence. These chairpersons are elected by the six representatives from each country branch, who convene every three years at the International General Assembly. The six members are: the Country Board Chairperson, their Deputy, the Treasurer, the Country Director, the Deputy Country Director, and the Senior Program Officer.

The Continental Vice Presidents report directly to the International Executive Council (IEC), while the regional teams report to the respective Continental Vice Presidents. These leaders meet with the IEC every four years during the International General Assembly, and with their committees three to four times per year to monitor and evaluate existing policies and projects. Additionally, they are responsible for proposing new policies to be considered by the IEC.

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Continental Councillors:

 

Continental Board members are elected representatives who serve on the Continental Council, representing their respective regions. From this group, five regional Chairpersons are selected, each responsible for overseeing one of the five continents globally. These Chairpersons report directly to the IGC and are tasked with leading the monitoring and evaluation of FPI activities, ensuring effective policy implementation, and facilitating the election of senior councillors for their regions.

Each country is represented by two Country Board members and two Country Executive members on the Continental Council, serving a three-year term. These representatives report to their respective Continental Executive Chairperson, who in turn reports to the Vice President of the continent.

The Executive Chairpersons, along with the Country Councillors, are inducted into sub-committees specific to their continent and region. These sub-committees are responsible for carrying out a variety of duties and functions within their regions, and they are tasked with reporting their activities and progress to the IGC Chairperson.

These teams meet twice yearly in a designated country and once every month virtually to report and discuss projects and challenges in their regions.

 

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The International General Council (IGC): 

Continental Council

Regional Councillors: 

Regional Councillors: These are 6 member teams from each country composed of the following country leadership: Country Board Chairperson, Deputy and Treasurer, Country Director, Deputy Country Director, and Senior Program Officer and are led by the Regional Chairperson and Executive Director, both of  whom coordinate FPI activities in their region.

They report to the regional chairperson, who in turn reports to the continental Executive Chairperson.

 

These teams meet once every 3 months in their region for monitoring of projects as well as planning and implementation of policies from the Continental Council, they also meet once every month virtually for reviews and report back on progress and challenges in their countries.   

               

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STAGES OF ENGAGEMENT WITH FPI 

Please read the information below to get an understanding of the stages to be followed when setting up a Farmers Pride International branch/chapter

 

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STAGES OF ENGAGEMENT WITH FPI 

Please read the information below to get an understanding of the stages to be followed when setting up a Farmers Pride International branch/chapter

 

Find more information here 

FPI-I National Structures:
Country -Board / Shareholders 

  1.  Patron                                                          (1)

  2. Board Chairperson                                     (1)

  3. Deputy Chairperson                                   (1)

  4. Secretary                                                      (1)

  5. Vice secretary                                              (1)

  6. Treasurer                                                      (1)

  7. Board committee members                      (7)

 

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Country Secretariat

  1. Country Director

  2. Deputy Country Director

  3. National Coordinators                                 

  4. Deputy National Coordinator 

  5. Finance & Admin Officer                            

  6. Human Resources   

  7. Legal Officer   

  8. Communications Officer                              

  9. Senior Program officer 

  10. Crop Protection Extension Officers 

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  1. Provincial Coordinators                            

  2. District / County Coordinators 

  3. Village Coordinator

  4. Ward Coordinator

  5. Area Coordinators

  6. Cluster Coordinators                                  

  7. Community Cluster leaders

  8. Cluster members &

  9. Country Membership        Read more>>>

 

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES

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