TransformingRural Southwest Nigeria
Designed and led by FTID — the Foundation for Technology Innovation & Sustainable Development.
TransComs are integrated rural transformation clusters that bring agriculture, processing, skills, social protection, and connectivity together in a single location — built around the communities they serve.
The Challenge
Africa's rural communitiesdon't lack potential.They lack infrastructure.
TransComs — Transformed Communities — are purpose-built clusters that address this directly. Each brings together an Agro-Trading Centre, processing hub, skills and finance facilities, social protection services, and reliable power and water — in a single, coordinated site.
The programme is led by the Foundation for Technology Innovation & Sustainable Development (FTID), in partnership with the Southwest Development Commission (SWDC) as government anchor, and anchored by royal and community authority.
The pilot is approved: Ogbomoso, Oyo State. The goal — 137 TransComs across Southwest Nigeria within five years.
Why TransComs
Everything inone place.
Farm to Market
Processing, grading, packaging, and storage infrastructure at the farm gate — so farmers can sell more, at better prices.
Community-Led
Anchored by traditional authority, women's cooperatives, and community associations. Governance is local; infrastructure is institutional.
Built to Scale
A replicable design deployed across six states — shared standards, shared procurement, shared technology infrastructure.
“The model we have designed for TransComs is a distillation of what works — built around your crops, your cooperatives, your community structures.”
— Prof. Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Chairman, FTID
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