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Se He Aa s a ua eeomet agey that seeks to moe the es o some o the ooest

ommutes Sub-Sahaa Aa. The ogazato woks wth oa sta, oa ates a ua

ommutes Buka Faso, Ethoa, Etea, Ghaa, Keya, Maaw, Ugaa, Togo a Zamba. Se He

Aa ees ost-eete a sustaabe soutos to the haeges ag ua Aa eoe.

a rural aFrica FrEE FroM hungEr & povErty

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east aFRICa

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wheRe we woRk

THE cHAllEnGES ArE EnOrMOUS BUT THE FAcTS

ArE SiMplE:

Most Aas e ua aeas

Most Aa am a a gow muh moe.

We believe that to make a real and lasting dierence in the

lives o Aricans, their arms must become more productive and

their businesses nurtured.

WHAT WE dO:

We he eoe to gow eough oo a yea

aou, a to esee the a

We he eoe to stat sma busesses

We he eoe to oo the esoues, though am

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Se He Aa Ou Wok At A Gae

Ray Jordan

Chie Executive

W

elcome to the 2010 Update or

Sel Help Arica. Within these

pages, we want to show you how

Sel Help Arica is making a real and lasting

dierence in the lives o tens o thousands o

people across the continent.

For 25 years now, Sel Help Arica has been

supporting eorts to bring new lie and

productivity to rural Arica.

We rmly believe that agricultural production and the needs o small-scale

arming communities must be at the centre o eorts to alleviate poverty

in Sub-Saharan Arica in the years ahead.

It is a case that we make in the article on ood and livelihoods on the

ollowing pages and is at the heart o the work that we are doing.

There are many challenges or Arica perhaps the greatest o these

is climate change, and this Update allows us to show you how we are

helping armers adapt to new growing conditions across the continent.

None o our work is charity in the traditional sense o that word.

We like to say that its a help up, not a hand out.

So, the armer who receives a kilo o improved seed this season repaystwo kilos at harvest; the small businesswoman who receives a loan pays it

back, with interest.

This sel help approach to development - applied by our organisation

across more than 40 development programmes in nine countries - works.

We have seen it time and again and the achievements and impacts are

well documented in numerous independent evaluations and assessments

o our work.

Its also, in our view, the most cost-eective way to achieve sustainable

and lasting change or the communities in Arica with whom we

collaborate.

As you read about the successes that have been achieved, do so in the

knowledge that a great deal o work must still be done i millions o

Aricans are to have enough ood to eat and the chance o a better lie.

Do so also with the awareness that you too can play your part in making

a reality our vision o an Arica ree rom hunger and poverty.

ray Joa,

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invEsting in agriculturE

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o 25 yeas Se He Aa has bee wokg to moe

the es o ua Aas, estg sustaabe ogams

esge to ease oo outo a eabe Aas to

ea a g. deeog agutua outo at both oa a

egoa ees s ua the outes o Sub-Sahaa ae gog to be

abe to ee the gowg ouatos the yeas ahea.

2008 saw a dramatic increase in world ood prices and a wave o

protests and rioting, which put the

issue o small-scale agriculture into

sharp ocus or world leaders.

The gravity o the situation was

evidenced when the Secretary General

o the United Nations Ban Ki Moon

convened an emergency ood summit

in Rome and spoke aterwards o a

need to seize the historic opportunity

to revitalise agriculture.

While the immediate concern o

the UN sponsored summit was on

nding a response to high ood prices,the Secretary General also sought the

creation o a United Nations taskorce

to ocus on the longer term goal o

improving ood security or the worlds

poor.

At the same time as the United Nations was addressing the issue o ood

production the UNs ormer chie Ko Annan launched a separate initiative

designed to drive arm production in Arica.

In 2009, number o people going hungry globally rose above the one

billion gure or the rst time in human history, and against this backdrop

Sel Help Arica is more convinced than ever that agriculture provides the

route out o poverty or the worlds poor.


Margaret Malakita irrigates her mustard crop

in Malawi.

Irrigated horticulture helps rural amilies to increase production.

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5% o the people o Sub-Sahara, or approximately 600 million Aricans

rely on small scale arming or their survival. It is only by tackling the

challenges and diculties that they ace that we will achieve a lasting, long

term solution to the problems o extreme poverty.

At Sel Help Arica we have ound that simple, aordable technologies

can have a proound eect on agricultural production or small-scale

armers. Treadle (oot) pumps and drip irrigation kits provided to arm

amilies in countries where only 4% o agricultural land is irrigated has

enabled small-holders to double ood production; support or the ormation

o co-operative structures that allow armers to access good quality seed

stock in time or the planting season and assist co-ops with the marketing

and sale o any surpluses has helped to lit many rural Aricans out o

poverty.

Complementary cropping and crop rotation, the use o

manure based composts rather than oil-based chemical

ertilisers and the sustainable use o available land

and resources are amongst the many other

approaches that can help Aricans to grow more

ood in a way that is both cost eective and

sustainable.Years o chronic under-investment in the

agricultural sector in Arica, allied to

unequal trading arrangements which

have allowed western producers to

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dump their surpluses on the markets o Arica and thus drive down local

prices, are amongst the issues which must be tackled by the world

community. It is vital however that a practical and pragmatic approach which

refects the culture and the circumstances o Arican armers themselves is

brought to this challenge.

The 2000 Millennium Goal to halve the proportion o the world

population acing poverty and under nourishment by 2015 is in jeopardy

with increasing population, climate change and a global recession all putting

additional strain on the resources that are available to assist the poorest and

the most vulnerable.

It is heartening that the G8

countries and other world bodies are

prepared to take the lead in adopting

sound agricultural policies and

strategies to support arming and

rural developing in Sub-Saharan

Arica.

We hope that others too will see

the merit and value o this approach

and back the sustainable andparticipatory approaches to poverty

reduction that Sel Help Arica has

been championing or the past

quarter century.Nursery production in Uganda.


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thE challEngE oF cliMatE changE

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or anyone who has witnessed the conditions in which smallholder

Arican armers survive, the threat posed by climate change is

rightening. In the nine countries in which Sel Help Arica works, no-

one is in any doubt that the change has arrived and armers are the rst to

see what the uture holds.

There are around 80 million small arms on the continent, and 75% o all

Aricans rely on agriculture or their livelihoods. In the last ew years, new

investment in arming brought improved

harvests last year, there was a 3.5%

increase in output rom the continent, mostly

rom small arms.

But Arican agriculture is particularlyvulnerable to a change in growing

conditions. Less than 4% o agricultural land

is irrigated, so production is heavily

dependent on the timing and quantity o

rain.

Many scientists now believe that global

temperatures will rise by between two and

our degrees Celsius by 2050, and rains willbecome ever more unpredictable as a result.

There will be more droughts and more

foods. Staple crops will be unable to cope

with a our-degree rise in temperatures, and

yields will all by up to 40%. There will be

greater numbers o pests and soil ertility will drop.

The greatest irony is that the people most at risk rom climate change live

in countries that have contributed the least to the atmospheric build-up o

carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases linked

to global warming. Texas, with a population o

23 million, emits more carbon dioxide than


Drip irrigation is an eective way ot optimising the

use o available water.

A dry well in Eritrea under-scores the impact that climate change is

having in rural Arica.

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all 720 million residents o sub-Saharan Arica.

For Arican armers, the challenge is to nd ways to adapt to this change

as it happens, as most o them simply dont have the resources to play

catch-up. For Sel Help Arica, the challenge is to develop new adaptation

strategies or the communities in which we work.

We do this by listening to armers as they share their discoveries, by

linking in with research institute programs, and by sharing lessons with other

organizations.

Farmers are on the ront line o climate change, but the way in which

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they work rom the amount and type o crops they plant to the way in

which they till the land and protect natural resources, including rainorests,

can help to cut carbon levels.

As a global community, we must all ace up to the challenge o a hotter

and more inhospitable planet. Smallholder armers have contributed least to

global warming, and while they have most to lose as a result o it, they also

oer a potential way out.

Whether we ocus on blame or on solution, the West must help Aricas

armers.


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rgFarMErs arE on thE FrontlinE oF cliMatE changE

Hog oto aCollection and storage o rainwater is the most cost eective way o providing

water to communities living in the dry and arid climates o sub-Saharan Arica.

We have devised a range o rainwater harvesting methods to support individual

armers, communities, schools and others to secure water or their drinking and

crop needs.

deeog ought esstat os

In collaboration with agricultural research institutes, we are acilitating the

development o crop varieties that are robust enough to withstand harsh weather

conditions and others that are early yielding.

Maagg the wate

Building check dams and repairing gullies are just two examples o activities being

promoted to manage soil moisture and control water tables. Water rom dammed

areas is available to armers or irrigation.

Eouagg o esato

We are assisting and supporting armers to introduce new crop varieties.

iestg the aCommunities using degraded land are encouraged to

enclose this land, keeping livestock out, planting shrubbery

and trees and putting urther soil erosion techniques.

ieasg aess to wate

The use o treadle pumps and drip kits in small-scale

irrigation has had a proound impact on arming across

our programmes. Small and medium scale irrigation has

allowed large numbers o armers to produce horticultural

cash crops such as onions, mustard, cabbage and

tomato.

Usg ue eet stoes

The use o wood or cooking has resulted in widespread

deorestation and soil erosion. In an eort to respond, we

promote a range o improved cooking stoves that are

being made available to rural amilies.

A extese ogamme o attes s ueway to suot ommutes to aat to mate hage. Amogst these attes ae:


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Ethiopia

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sees o tegate aea base eeomet ogams

that ouse o oa oo outo, ome geeato

a mog aess to wate a soa sees wee

memete ast yea by Se He Aa Ethoa.

The organization also supported initiatives to mobilise armers in Oromia

and Southern Nations and Nationalities (SNNPR) into primary agricultural

co-operatives. These groups and a number o co-operative unions worked to

strengthen organizational capacity and to promote

diversication and marketing opportunities or

armers.

Sel Help Arica expanded micro-nance savings

and credit opportunities, directly supporting the

mobilisation o 8,000 new members into local

savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) and

providing backing to ve SACCO unions in Oromia

and SNNPR regions.

Four area-based development programs at Bora,

Huruta, Sodo II and Aleymaya II undertook activities

to improve agriculture and ood production.

Activities also sought to rehabilitate the naturalenvironment, support income generation and

improve access to water, sanitation, healthcare and

education in the our areas.

Sodo II, in its third year, distributed drought-

resistant enset seedlings to 250 armers; 90 armers

began apple production; a range o

rain ed and irrigated crop production

activities were carried out and support

provided to an articial insemination

(AI) scheme to improve local livestock

breeding.

The Sodo II program was

supported in 2008 by the Skerries/

Sodo Community Group.

250 students were recruited to

the newly opened Kella High School

and more than10,000 people receivedclean water rom two new shallow

wells and the capping o a community

spring. Elsewhere, check dams and micro-basins were constructed to

conserve water and arrest soil erosion and 35 rope and washer pumps were

distributed to enable armers to irrigate arm land.

The Huruta area program supported nearly 4,000 arm amilies with

improved seed, distributed over hal a million tree seedlings, 3,600 poultry

birds, 140 beehives and created an irrigation co-operative or 140 armers.A rainwater harvesting scheme was developed to support seven remote


Rope & washer pumps help

households to irrigate land.

More than 30 supporters

sponsored new pumps or

irrigated arming last year.

Payapa production is a valuable way tosupplement income.

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rural villages; more than 1,000 SACCO members received assistance, while

nearly 3,000 armers took part in training in methods o seed multiplication,

beekeeping, sanitation and amily planning. Supported by the One51

Charitable Foundation, the Huruta Program completed its three-year

development cycle in 2008.

Bora area based program supported 800 households to set up tree

nurseries, assisted a poultry development program that reached 234

households, promoted a range o both rain-ed and irrigated arming

activities and supported composting and irrigated vegetable production at

arm household level.

Support was provided to a community to sink a borehole and provide

clean drinking water to over 500 households; backed a revolving drugscheme to provide a sustainable supply o medicine to users o a health centre

in Alemtena and provided training on HIV/AIDS and gender to teachers.

At Alemaya II program more than 1,300 armers in Ethiopias Eastern

Highlands beneted rom the promotion and distribution o improved

quality wheat seed, haricot beans, te and bean seeds during

2008. Nearly 1,000 other armers were supplied with

garlic, potato and onion bulbs to begin vegetable

production, a urther 720 households startedpoultry rearing and 230 arm amilies planted

enset or the rst time.

Sel Help Aricas Oromia and SNNPR

Agricultural Cooperative Development

Programs ocussed on measures to improve

incomes, organizational strength and the earning potential o co-operative

members.

In Oromia 1,000 members received wheat and other crop seeds under a

local seed multiplication program; seed potatoes were also multiplied and

distributed and nance and training was provided to savings and credit co-

operative members. This work received support rom Dutch based ICCO.

In SNNPR region seed multiplication co-operatives provided improved seed

to over 4,500 armers. Nearly 3,000 landowners were assisted in starting

production o alternate cash crops including haricot beans, onions and chilli.

Structures were put in place to strengthen dairy co-ops, with support

being provided or milk production systems, promotion o added value and

marketing o dairy produce.

Membership o SACCOs in Oromia increased to over 10,000 people,

with 29 new primary credit co-ops joining three existing SACCO unions at

Awash, Keleta and Ia Boru. In SNNRP 8,000 additional members joined

primary savings and credit co-ops,

increasing the membership o two

regional SACCO unions to more than

20,000. The Irish League o Credit Unions

Foundation (ICLUF) is supporting this work.

invEstMEnt: $2,892,591 pErcEntagE oF prograM spEnd: 34.1%

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Described as the tree against amine

because it can survive drought and can

be stored or long period, Enset has been

promoted to support ood security across Sel

Help Aricas Ethiopian programs or more than a

decade.


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AddiS ABABA

ETHIOPIA

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EritrEa

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e He Aa make ts 15th yea Etea 2008. Wok

ue aea ogams the Gash Baka a Southe

regos a suot o a atoa beekeeg eeomet

ogam.

The organization is one o a small number o international development

agencies working in the country, the result o a cautious approach to the

presence o overseas agencies by a Government that believes Eritrea should

not become dependent on the

resources o international NGOs.

Both o Sel Help Aricas area-

based programs were aected by

a shortage o rainall, which hadan impact on crop yields in many

areas. A shortage o arming inputs,

construction materials and uel also

led to plans or several construction

programs including dam and pond

building being deerred.

In 2008 the Emni Haili program

supplied and distributed 500 ox-

ploughs through two community-

run arm shops. The program also

distributed, through revolving unds,

close to 16,000 ruit tree seedlings;

supported planting o an additional

160,000 mixed tree saplings and assisted a program that treated close to

20,000 livestock at two recently built animal health posts.

In Gogne, where the drought was particularly acute, two new rainwater

harvesting irrigation ponds were constructed to provide water to more than


Rain harvesting ponds in Gogne assisted

householders to irrigate their land.

500 ox-oughs wee stbutethough am shos Em Ha.

The search or rewood is a daily chore in rural Eritrea. Homestead woodlots

provided by Sel Help Arica provide amilies with a ready supply o uel wood

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410 households (2,500 people) and 4,750 livestock. Because o the dry

conditions these acilities were dry or several months however.

Elsewhere, construction o a new elementary school was undertaken in

Adi Gebru with unding support o 223,877 provided by riends and amily

in memory o Irish teacher Barbara Gill, while more than 140 desks and

other urnishings were also provided to t out the building. Several primary

savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) were also established.

Nearly 9,000 high school students attended a two-day HIV/AIDS

awareness raising seminar and 8,200 students attended a drama

perormance to raise awareness o HIV, while 480 students visited voluntary

counselling and testing centres.

As part o the beekeeping development program more than 110 colonies

were raised and distributed through revolving unds to arm amilies, while

bee odder planting was undertaken in dierent areas.

Planning and baseline studies or a number o proposed new area-based

programs (ABPs) at Elabared and Mai-Aine sub-regions and at Kimira in the

Southern Red Sea region took place. These new programs will replace the

existing ABPs at Gogne and Emni Haili, which will phase out in 2009.

invEstMEnt: $616,309 pErcEntagE oF prograM spEnd: 7.3%


Rosena Garza used a small loan rom a Sel Help Arica savings co-operative in

Gheleb to start a small sewing business in her village.

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110 arm amilies in Eritrea

began beekeeping last year.

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kEnya

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e He Aa mae sgat ogess towas mog

oo a ehoo seuty systems ts Keya ogams

2008, a yea that was mae by wesea uest,

uetabe weathe attes a amagg futuatos oo

es the outy.

Food production was increased or householders across both area-based

programs in Gilgil and Kamara. This came despite the enorced suspension

o activities in Kamara early in the year, as post

election violence caused more than 120 deaths,

destruction o over 3,800 houses and the

displacement o over 24,000 people rom their

homes.

As a result o the violence both Sel

Help Arica and its local partners at Baraka

Agricultural College (BAC) teamed up with

the Kenyan Red Cross and other agencies

to provide short-term emergency support to

local communities and later supported confict

resolution measures aecting communities.

As 2008 progressed major progress was

made with eorts to improve ood and

livelihood security activities in Kamara and

Gilgil; measures to strengthen local arm

production and capacity were undertaken at

Nakuru, Bomet, Kericho, Koibatek and Baringo

and beekeeping enterprises

were promoted across each

o these districts.

A review and evaluation

o Sel Help Aricas

partnership with BAC on a

beekeeping development

program that has supported

more than 5,000 rural

Kenyans across the Rit

Valley and Pokot regions to

develop beekeeping andhoney production activities

over the past ve years was

also carried out.

Agricultural production

was enhanced by seed multiplication and the distribution o alternate seed

varieties, as well as by the promotion o improved quality maize. Support

was given or the distribution o sweet potato and beans as a drought-

tolerant crop.

Drip irrigation and a range o activities to support armers associations


A seed multiplication program

helped local crop diversication in

Kenya. More than 120 supporters

sponsored seed packs in 2008.costuto o a ew mayshoo at Thome was state.

Dozens attended beekeeping artisan skills

training courses at Baraka College, where they

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started.

Sel Help Arica established a number o valuable unding partnerships

during the year - with the Australian High Commission supporting a drip

irrigation initiative, Family Health International (FHI) supporting a program

to help individuals and amilies living with HIV/AIDS. Partnerships were also

established with United Nations Development Program (UNDP); the Republic

o Finland on the localisation o the Millennium Development Goals and

with Community Development Trust Fund (CDTF) on a program o advocacy

and environmental rehabilitation in Gilgil and Elementaita. Sel Help Arica

established a unding partnership with Irish NGO Gorta that provided

valuable backing or elements o the organizations area based program at

Gilgil.SHA also successully networked with a range o Kenyan government

institutions, including the Kenya Agricultural Research

Institute (KARI) on the promotion o drought tolerant

crops; the Kenya Rain Water Association; Kenya Land

Alliance (KLA) and the Horticultural Development

Crops Authority (HCDA).

Market oriented production o passion

ruit, avocado and sunfower was

undertaken, with markets sourced or the

sale o armers produce to local outlets in

the Gilgil area.


David Karanja o the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute presents packets o

drought tolerant beans to a seed multiplier group in Gilgil.

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were undertaken and assistance through revolving und loans was provided

to armer common interest groups (CIGs) to build poultry and livestock

housing and to strengthen links with Government Ministry

services. Crop ailures caused by drought and by low prices

paid or produce aected many producers however.

Farmers in Gilgil were also assisted with the production

o sunfowers and onions as cash crops. Other activities

were carried out to improve the management o local natural

resources, including the development o water points at Kiambogo

and Reracua, while construction o a new primary school at Thome was

Links were orged to allow our armers

associations in Gilgil to sell their sunfower crop to a

local ood oil producer.

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Malawi

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e He Aas Maaw pogam s kow as FAir a s u

oaboato betwee ousees, the deeomet Fu, a

nowega ogazato a the UK-base agey F You

Feet.

The FAIR rural livelihoods programs continued to work with more than

a dozen local partners in the north and central regions. The FAIR programs

included a range o community based rural development initiatives to

support more than 17,000 households (approx.

85,000 people) to improve their livelihoods.

In 2008 its activities included an extensive

ood security program or nearly 9,000

households at Rumphi that receives backing romthe European Union and an initiative to train

several thousand lead armers as trainers in

communities in Nkhata Bay, Mzimba and Rumphi

districts.

FThe participatory community approach

in Rumphi was applied to support three local

partners -LOMADEF, CICOD and TAPP to re-

engage with communities in other areas o the

north on new programs. CICOD and TAPP were

also supported to collaborate on a program

to maximise the impact o their work by using

shared learning and expertise.

During a three year period (2008-2011)

FAIR will seek to improve rural

livelihoods and ood security or

upwards o 30,000 households in

nine districts, with specic emphasison strengthening the capacity o

local partners to undertake uture

activities. The program is also

engaged in successul partnerships

with local NGOs who are working

in areas o biodiversity development

and conservation, in

wetlands management,

in HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness and in advocacy.

Local partners undertook a broad range o activities

in 2008 including: sinking wells and developing water

sources or drinking and irrigation; promoting and

developing composting and manure production,

beekeeping, tree nurseries, alternative vegetable crops

and ruit tree promotion, as well as activities to support


Support was provided to members

o 16 micro-nance groups.

2200 households began soya production in 2008

The FAir ogamwoks wth moe tha

a oze oa ate

nGOs.

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and develop livestock production. Small-scale micro-nance programs

and seed multiplication co-operatives was supported, and assistance was

provided with the roll out to communities o voluntary counselling and

testing services (VCT).

Sel Help Aricas two ood security and integrated rural development

programs, at Masumbankhunda and Kalembo in the south o the country

are seeking to improve the lives o 17,600 households (approx. 120,000

people) in the geographic areas o Lilongwe and Kalembo Districts

respectively, over a ve year period to the end o 2011.

During 2008 the programs supported the ormation o 74 seed

committees to multiply and distribute improved quality seed and alternate

seed stock to rural armers in their areas. Training in crop management was

provided to over 670 armers, while 2,200 households received seed and

training to begin soya, cassava, groundnut and sweet potato production.

Farmers were organised into associations, clubs and co-operatives;

members o 22 groups received training in irrigated horticultural production;

21 livestock groups were supported with goat and pig rearing activities,

and the members o 16 primary micro-nance savings and credit co-

operatives were linked to the leading nance lending institution FINCOOP.

Construction work on new school blocks at Kaweche Primary School in

Masumbankhunda and at Mbayi Primary in Kalembo was completed, whileadditional school improvement work at a urther two schools was started

during 2008.

18 new shallow wells were sunk and Malda pumps

installed; 174 community representatives rom 17 villages

received training in water management and hygiene and a

program to promote agro-orestry and ruit tree production

was started.

More than 4,400 people attended HIV/AIDS awareness

raising activities and training, while nearly 1,300 signed up

or voluntary counselling and testing or HIV.

In 2008 Sel Help Arica nalised its earlier area-based

development programs at Nsondole in Zomba District and

at Kaphuka in Dedza.

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A armers co-operative in Malawi.

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uganda

Se He Aa ommee oe ew aea ogam Ugaa

2008, bgg to ou the umbe o aea base ogams

beg memete the outy.

The newest program was started at Kumi-Bukedea in the second hal o

the year ollowing baseline needs assessment work and the recruitment o

local sta. The program is located in north-eastern Uganda, in an area with

a total population o more than 450,000 people living in and near over 440

villages. More than 75% o households live

below the poverty line.

Preliminary work in Kumi-Bukedea

included the identication o suitable sites

or cassava multiplication, hosting o a serieso meetings with district planners, sub-

county leaders and others who will support

the organizations development activities

over the coming ve years. By year end

a total o 317 seed multiplication sites or

cassava production had been established.

The new program was started as

preparations got underway or the

completion o its two longest established

Ugandan development programs at

Amuria and Kamuli respectively.

Activities in Kamuli were concentrated

primarily on managing the exit process,

with particular ocus placed on strengthening the organizational capacity

o armers associations and co-operatives and on measures to add value to

post-harvest arm produce.

A number o seed store management committees were also established

across Kamuli, while training programs were organised or armers

associations and assistance provided with the registration o these

organizations.

In Amuria the ocus was also on strengthening existing local structures,

although signicant work was also carried out with armers groups and

associations to improve productivity which had been seriously disrupted by

severe fooding in late 2007.

Extensive seed distribution was carried out in Amuria through purchaseand revolving und, with more than 2,250 households participating in

groundnut production, 600 households in cassava production

and a urther 210 armers being supported as part o

an improved breed goat program. To add value and

save labour with crop production activities two

Groundnuts, upland rice and cassava

were amongst the alternate crops being

promoted.

317 sites or cassava multipication were established.

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ground nut shellers and two cassava chippers were procured and distributed

to armer groups.

Two new maternity units were constructed in Amuria at Morungatuny

and Kuju sub-counties respectively, while 17 individual tree nursery armers

received training. Mother gardens were established or the production o

both citrus and mango in each o six sub-counties and a program to support

cassava seed multiplication was initiated.

The countrys ourth area based development program at Kayunga

entered its second year in 2008 and Sel Help Arica grew its program reach

considerably, to provide coverage to approximately 80% o the district

during the year.

An extensive program o community sensitisation meetings were also

held, promotion o alternate crops carried out and distribution o plantingmaterials undertaken.

Nearly 3,000 arm amilies were supported with crop inputs or beans,

rice, maize and cassava. A new program to pilot banana production

amongst armers was started, with 40 households receiving 8,000 plants to

begin production and multiplication.

Local armers associations and co-operatives received organizational

support, supported and 11 micro-nance savings and credit co-operatives

(SACCOs) were created. Assistance was also provided to ensure that armersgroups can orm linkages to add value to crop production and source

markets or their surplus produce.

In Kayunga ve armer-owned tree nurseries

were established, a sanitation program distributed

600 pit latrine slabs and a urther 700 pits were

dug.

10 secondary schools were reached with

HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention messages,

ve voluntary counselling and testing outreach

initiatives or HIV were supported, 18 adult literacy

classes supported and 30 instructors trained to

support urther adult literacy work in the area.

Farm amilies use small micro-nance loans to buy livestock.

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wEst aFrica

Se He Aa extee ts attes West Aa to Buka

Faso, the seo ooest outy the wo, 2008. A sees

o ew ot ogams wee state the outy wth ew

oa ates.

This expansion ollowed the establishment o a regional oce in

Ouagadougou, the capital o Burkina Faso to oversee all o the activities

being supported by Sel Help Arica in West Arica in Togo, Ghana and

latterly Burkina Faso.

Across the three countries Sel Help

Arica is collaborating with six local

development partners, the largest

o which is TRAX Togo, which isimplementing work in the ar north o

that country.

The Togo program is providing

support to more than 2,500 households

(approx. 22,000 people), assisting

communities to increase ood production

and household income, rehabilitate

the nature environment, improve local

access to clean water, address the

challenges presented by HIV/AIDS and

strengthen local development capacity.

175,600 provided by the UK Big

Lottery Fund was invested in the Togo

program last year.

The organization

began working

in West Arica (asHarvest Help) in

2005, when it took

charge o a number

o development

programs that had

been started by the

ormer UK based

organization TRAX inthe late 1980s.

The activities

are in remote rural

communities across

a geographical

region that includes

expansive areas o

savannah and semi-arid

zones where soil ertility


Traditional basketry is a valuable way to

supplement amily income.

Sampana Kourouk, with her daughter Sanbon,

has seen her amily income increase as a result o

practical support they have received.

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is poor and climatic conditions dicult or ood production.

The new programs in Burkina Faso include our year-long pilot programs

carried out by local partners PER, Wend Yam, ORGANIC and ASCDIS.

This work is taking place in the provinces o Zondoma, Bam, Oubritengaand Bazaga and ocuses on soil ertility management methods; improved

seed multiplication and dissemination; livestock health management and

improved eeding; bee keeping and awareness o HIV/AIDS.

In 2008, Sel Help Arica supported a six-month Sustainable Livelihoods

and Community Empowerment program that involved close to 1,000

poor armers in the Northern and Upper East Regions o Ghana. The

work was carried out by local partners TRAX Ghana and included soil

ertility management, crop diversication, livestock husbandry and healthmanagement, together with awareness on sustainable environment

management.

A total o nearly 7,000 people beneted rom this program,

which also provided training to 20 Community Trainers in the

area.

The West Arican region where Sel Help Arica works is

one o the poorest parts o the world. During the past decade

poverty has worsened, with IFAD estimating that nearly 50%

o the total population live on less than one US dollar per

day.


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ZaMBia

I Zamba, 2008 was a yea o tasto o Se He Aa wth

sx ogams eg a ou ew ogams statg u.

The Striking a Balance program has enabled 500 households across

three sites in Mpika to successully ensure that local wetlands do not dry out.

Activities were completed at Mpika, Chibombo and Chipapa where

crop diversication and other activities saw productivity and incomes increase

signicantly.

PROP (Program or the

Reduction o Poverty) in Eastern

Province, recorded notable

improvements in micro-nance,

with savings and credit groupsbeing ormed and village

banks, with oces in Lundazi

and Chipapa being created. Full

repayment has been seen within

the groups circulating their own

savings and there is over 90%

repayment on loans made using

external capital.

EU unding was received

to support the development

o rural enterprise in the areas

around Kaoma, Senanga,

Solwezi and Kasempa. The

two MORE (Market Orientated Rural

Enterprise) programs in North Western

and Western Province respectively

provided business skills training and

unding or small capital investments to

improve the quality o produce sold and

build lasting links or armers to market

and sell their produce. A pilot initiative

was also orged with Eastern Province

Farmers Cooperative in their eorts to

develop a market brokerage service

or primary cooperative groups aroundChipata.

In Chibombo District the work o

OPAD (Organization or the Promotion o

Meaningul Development through Active Participation) has been extended

to another ward Liteta, where the UK Big Lottery Fund and Development

Fund o Norway are both supporting a our-year program o assist 2,000

A goat house at a homestead in Zambia.

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households. Emphasis in 2008 was on developing community leadership to

support agriculture development and address HIV/AIDS.

Sel Help Arica in partnership with the Development Fund, FOSUP,

PELUM and WWF-Zambia continued to explore how the voice o small

holder armers on issues o natural resource management, agriculture

and the environment can be strengthened.

Our partnerships in Zambia with OPAD, Keepers Zambia

Foundation, Mthila Kubili, Micro Bankers Trust, FOSUP,

PELUM and WWF-Zambia have continued to develop. Our

partnership with government, particularly with the Ministry

invEstMEnt : $1,464,754 pErcEntagE oF prograM spEnd: 17.3%

Maize is an important staple crop or small-scale armers in Zambia.

Poultry rearing allows amilies to diversiy their income.

Close to 200 supporters sponsored poultry git certicatesat Christmas and directly supported Arican amilies with

poultry rearing.

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o Agriculture and Cooperatives has been strengthened through our work

on two rural enterprise program in the West and Northwest Provinces.

Collaboration with the Seed Control and Certication Institute (SCCI)

under the DFID unded Rights to Seed Program is infuencing thinking about

the role o small-scale seed producers in Zambia and work is under way to

prepare a scaling up o this work. The European Commission continues to be

our major under in Zambia.

At the end o 2008 a new partnership was orged with Development

Fund o Norway or a new joint-program in Zambia.


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savings & crEdit - EMpowEring aFrican woMEn

Sel Help Arica has been involved in establishing rural savings and

credit co-operatives (SACCOs) across Arica or the past decade,

allowing the rural poor to access seed unding to start up their own

income generating small-businesses.Traditionally, getting access to credit was almost impossible or poor rural

communities. The only source o credit was the money-lender, who charged

prohibitively high interest rates up to 100% per annum. Anyone who

wanted to borrow money to open a small business was almost guaranteed

to all into diculty in

meeting loan and interest

repayments.

Primarily targeting

women, the Sel Help Arica

savings and credit initiatives

have enabled thousands

o Aricans to set up small

shops, start poultry and

livestock rearing, and much

more, and have provided

rural poor households with

vital new sources o income.

In Ethiopia, where SHAs

savings and credit work is

strongest, more than 20,000

borrowers have been given

loans by one o the 157 primary savings and credit co-ops established with

the support o Sel Help. These loans were used to establish businesses,

which in turn allow the borrowers to build new homes, send children to

school, or provide or their amilys daily needs.

Other SACCOs have been set up in Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and

Zambia. The savings and credit co-ops being established by Sel Help Arica

are developed as business enterprises that are run entirely by the members

themselves, ater the charity has provided the training and the other

necessary supports to the SACCO groups.

In most SACCO initiatives, Sel Help Arica invests the seed capital,

which allows the co-operative to begin issuing loans within a relatively short

period. This seed capital is paid back to SHA at the end o a dened period,

and normally reinvested in another activity within the community.

Sel Help Arica is currently involved in a campaign to develop SACCO

unions, to oversee and administer the operations o the individual primary

SACCO groups. This initiative has the support o the Irish League o Credit

Unions Foundations, who have provided training and unding support to

the project or the past number o years.

By specically targeting women, the SACCO programme has not just

mobilised women and enabled them to contribute economically to the

household - the eort has also empowered Arican women, and given

them a greater say in decision making within the household.

20,000 boowes hae take oasom et o-os Ethoa


Demekesh Gebru earns an income rom a small shop in

Meki, Ethiopia. She used credit rom SHA to start her

business.

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organising agriculturE - FarMErs co-ops

Organising armers into producer groups and co-operatives is

playing a key role in Sel Help Aricas work to strengthen small-

holder agricultural production amongst Aricas rural poor.

Working at grassroots level with rural communities, Sel Help Aricahas encouraged and supported armers to join together and work on

land irrigation, production and distribution o better quality seed, and the

cultivation o market-orientated crops.

Measures which build agricultural capacity have given armers access

to lucrative new markets or produce, have enabled rural households to

diversiy and scale up their production, and have allowed tens o thousands

o rural producers to create protable arming enterprises on small-scale

holdings which had ormerly been used only or subsistence arming

activities.

In Zambias Western Province, the Market Orientated Rural Enterprise

(MORE) project has supported more than 2,500 armers to organise into

small commodity groups o between 20 and 50 members, so that they can

embark on specic new arming activities rom vegetable, ruit and cereal

production, to livestock rearing, sh arming and beekeeping.

Commodity group members set aside a portion o their land or the

production o their specied commodity, and at harvest time they pool

their produce or transportation and sale to hotels, agri-ood processors and

other markets identied by the MORE project.

In Ethiopia, our Agricultural Co-Operative Development Program (ACDP)

is doing likewise with the production and sale o wheat, ruit and pulses,

allowing hundreds o dairy producers to add value to their milk products,

and supporting hundreds more seed potato producers to develop a supply

network which has become one o the countrys largest.

ACDP has identied markets or the sale o brewing malt to national

breweries and o durum wheat to pasta manuacturers.

Initiatives similar to Ethiopias ACDP and Zambias MORE are taking

place across Sel Help Aricas programme countries, as the organization

o agriculture provides small-scale growers

with new opportunities to expand, diversiy

and improve the protability o their

arming activities.


Members o Kamasika Seed Growers Association outside their seed store inWestern Province, Zambia.

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advocacy

leaRnIng, advoCaCy and dIssemInatIon

S

e He Aa s ommtte to ogazatoa eag,

bgg togethe the exeees gathee oe 25 yeas to

otuay moe the quaty o ou ogams. Se He

Aa w use ts kowege a eee gathee to aoate o

ommuty-e sustaabe ua eeomet as the most eete

aoah to ombattg oety Sub-Sahaa Aa.

We ae seekg to ahee ths objete by:

Orientating our programs to researching and learning the most eective

practices, policies and processes that address the needs o smallholder

armers and rural communities. This evidence based learning will be

channeled by Sel Help Arica into uture program improvements, and into

wider rural development networks.

Adopting a systematic approach to capturing and recording lessons

learned through monitoring and evaluation and disseminating this

knowledge in a manner that can infuence the wider development debate.

Advocating to infuence opinion in the countries where we work, within

the NGO sector, and in the Western world.

Being a pro-active voice at national and international assemblies wheredevelopment issues are being discussed and policies ormulated.

Utilising our Development Education network to work with secondary

schools to advocate or sustainable solutions to the challenges aced by

Aricas rural poor, and thus infuence uture strategies on how poverty

eradication can be achieved.

In this way Sel Help Arica will promote sustainable small-holder agriculture

as an eective response to eradicating hunger and improving economicprospects or Aricas rural poor. Our infuence will reach beyond the

program areas in which we are actively engaged ensuring that as an

organization we have the greatest impact possible.

Sel Help Arica advocates or community led development.

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consolidatEd statEMEnt oF Financial activitiEs For yEar Ending 31 dEc 2008

icomg esouces

Income resources from charitable activities-Grant income 319,095 7,642,085 7,961,180 8,168,785

Income resources from generated funds

- Voluntary income 2,683,745 1,900,226 4,583,971 3,903,100

Other incoming resources

-Interest & investment income 80,436 - - 80,436 31,648

Total incoming resources: 3,083,277 9,542,311 12,625,588 12,103,534

resouces expeded

Charitable activities (1,483,111) (9,719,623) (11,157,734) (10,232,485)Costs of generating voluntary income (1,046,026) - - (1,046,026) (1,187,970)

Goverance costs (108,298) - - (108,098) (115,318)

Total esouces expeded (2,592,436) (9,719,623) (12,312,059) (11,535,774)

Losses on revaluations of investment assets (11,947) - - (11,947) (1,470)

Transfers between funds (75,402) 75,402 - - - -

Merger transaction costs (54,397) (54,397)

net comg/(outgog) esouces 348,951 (101,909) 247,042 566,289

Fuds at begg of yea 841,540 1,859,134 2,700,673 2,138,667

Exchange loss on consolidation (129,472) (121,289) (249,589) (4,282)

Fuds at ed of yea 1,061,087 1,637,107 2,697,126 2,700,673

Uestcted

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GrAnTS FrOM GOvErnMEnTS And OTHEr cO-FUndErS

Irish Aid 40%

ish A

$5,121,375

Othe isttutoa

doos (EU, dFid,

dF, FAO, Undp)

$1,401,086

Tusts,

Fouatos

& Othes

$1,365,566

Geea

doatos

$4,583,971

incOME rESOUrcES 2008 2007 ($) 2008 ($)

Irish Aid 4,395,603 5,121,375

European Union 919,904 957,757

IAWS / One51 Charitable Trust 963,754 419,180

ICCO 292,650 292,650

Big Lottery Fund (UK) 421,761 206,976

Irish League of Credit Unions Foundation (ILCUF) 151,610 182,906

Department for International Development (UK) 189,710 178,656

Development Fund (Norway) 68,086 175,484

Wetland Action 65,584 165,751

Gorta - 94,672

Family Health International Kenya - 67,695

FAO Uganda - 50,732

UNDP Kenya - 37,621

AMREP 146,325 -

AusAid 49,750 -

Other grants 504,047 9,914

8,168,784 7,961,180

volutay icome

General Donations 3,555,071 4,334,500Farmers Grow Fund 348,029 249,470

3,903,100 4,583,971

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