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Tadesse Lema and Mamitu Alemu with children Kalkidan and Haile Tadesse, pictured at their home in Lume, Oromia, 2017.
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caling up agricultural production, improving nutrition
In 2015 the organisation was involved in implementing close
security, developing new enterprise and market
to a dozen development projects, all of which are being
opportunities for farmers, strengthening community-
undertaken in collaboration with local and/or international
based seed production and building climate resilience, are
partners. Four new projects are scheduled to commence
all key areas of Self Help Africa’s work in Ethiopia.
this year.
malawi
Ethiopia
zambia
burkinafaso
SUDAN
03. Early Seed Generation II
ERITREA
ghana
kenya
togo
09. Building Opportunities through Seed Enterprise Transformation
Gondar 06. Scaling Community Based Seed Production
Lake Tana
08. Smallholder Support Scheme
Amhara GREAT RIFT VALLEY
07. Climate Smart Agriculture
05. STAR project
Addis Ababa 01. Scaling up RuSACCOs 06. Livestock Growth Programme
SOMALILAND
Oromia Butajira
SNNPR
ETHIOPIA
02. Malt Barley Value-Chain Development
SOMALIA
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04. Scaling Community Based KENYA Seed Production
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Scaling up RuSACCO
Malt Barley ValueChain Development
Donor
Total Budget
Irish League of Credit Unions Foundation & SHA USA
€ 470,000
Irish Aid
€ 534,855
Time Frame 2016 2018
2012
Implementing Partner
Programme Area
Tinsaye, Bekelcha Sella, Fana Gudinna and Agnot RuSACCO Unions
Amhara, Oromia and SNNP Regions
Farmer Cooperatives: Galema & Raya Kajema
Oromia Region
Koga Irrigation Water Users Service Cooperative
Amhara Region
Hibret Fire, Halaba, Kenbata, Tegulet, Guna and Wemberma farmer cooperatives
SNNP
A Glimmer of Hope
Oromia Region
CNFA
SNNP Region
SOS Sahel, Farm Africa, Vita
SNNP Region
Bako Bore Farmers Cooperative Union & Bako Research Centre
Oromia Region
East Shewa Zone Agriculture Office, Cooperative Office and Finance and Economic Development Office
Oromia Region
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Early Seed Generation II
Vitol Foundation
€ 213,211
2014 2018
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Scaling CommunityBased Seed Production
Agricultural Transformation Agency
Sustainable Transformation of Agricultural Resources (STAR)
The community foundation for Ireland, Electric Aid & Self Help Africa US
€ 490,000
Livestock Growth Programme
USAID
€561,860
Climate-Smart Agriculture
Irish Aid
Smallholder Support Scheme
African Agriculture Fund – Technical Assistance Facility
€ 349,996
Building Opportunities through Seed Enterprise Transformation (BOSET)
Irish Aid, The Reed Foundation, Electric Aid
€€ 90,000
€€ 1,7000,000
2016 2017
2014
Ethiopia programmes
Programme
2017
2013 2017
€ 640, 071
2015 2017 2015 2018
2016 2017
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Ethiopia programmes
Ermias Tafese (10) and Lamrot Tafese (4) pictured with their child savings boxes inside their home in Sire, Oromia, 2017.
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Scaling UP Rural Savings and Credit Cooperatives
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MALT BARLEY VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT
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and off-farm enterprise as a means of generating income.
a result, farmers have secured better prices for their grain,
or over a decade Self Help Africa has supported a network of micro-finance cooperatives to distribute small loans to over 53,000 people in Ethiopia. This
support is designed to assist with the development of on
ince its launch in 2012 the Malt Barley Value Chain Development project has helped strengthen the capacity of 6,000 smallholder farmers in Oromia
to produce higher quality and quantities of malt barley. As thereby improving household incomes and food security.
SHA is building on the success of this work by extending credit cooperative support to three new intervention areas.
However, due to a chronic shortage of quality malt barley
The Scaling RuSACCOs project is improving access to
seed in Ethiopia, farmers have been unable to meet an
rural finance for smallholder farmers in three low-productive
increasing demand for grain. The second phase of the
and drought-prone zones of Amhara, Oromia and SNNP
project commenced in 2016 and is designed to tackle
regional states. This is enabling farmers to save for leaner
this issue by supporting 924 members of four farming
times and to invest in productive assets, allowing them to
cooperatives to produce quality, certified barley seed
diversify their incomes and to improve their household food
for distribution and sale to 14,784 malt barley farmers in
security.
Oromia.
The project is contributing towards a RuSACCO movement
Self Help Africa provides farmers with foundation seed
that promotes higher levels of financial inclusion through
as well as training in seed multiplication and production,
sustainable, community-owned financial institutions,
agronomy, seed quality and inspection. The project is also
with
a number of specifically designed outputs developed
supporting the construction of grain stores, and building
to achieve this goal. The project is working to improve
the marketing and financial capacity of cooperatives so that
the operational and management standards of the target
they can negotiate the best prices for their members.
RuSACCOs and unions. This is helping them to achieve self-sufficiency and to serve the long-term financial needs of rural households, thus contributing towards increased wealth and food security.
Total direct beneficiaries: 74,380 04
Total direct beneficiaries: 6,924
Ethiopia programmes
Kokebe Abebe (41), Edget B’hibret, Oromia.
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EARLY SEED GENERATION II
SCALING COMMUNITY-BASED SEED PRODUCTION
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It demonstrated that farmers at community-level could
Produciton’. The goal of the project is to create self-
produce quality basic and pre-basic seed for sale and
sustaining community-based seed cooperatives that fulfil
distribution.
current unmet demand. The cooperatives are producing
arly Seed Generation II Project follows a successful pilot that was undertaken to test farmer-led basic and pre-basic wheat seed production in Ethiopia.
That project was one of the first of its kind in the country.
uilding on its experience in seed sector development, Self Help Africa is supporting the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency’s
(ATA) project entitled ‘Scaling Community-Based Seed
self-pollinating varieties of crops, reaching remote regions The second phase of the project is testing this innovative
and promoting climate-smart seed production.
approach to farmer-led early generation seed production on a wider scale. It extends the reach of farmer-led seed
Self Help Africa is supporting the implementation of the
production to a new region – Amhara – and to a new crop
project by providing technical support to the community
– maize.
based seed producers, allocating project resources and mobilizing additional local resources from community and
The project aims to prove the viability of farmer-led seed
local government.
production as a means to address limited seed availability in Ethiopia. This will not only address the high demand for certified seed in Ethiopia, but will also provide farmers with better market access and a better price, thus enhancing economic growth and development.
Total direct beneficiaries: 5,380
Total direct beneficiaries: TBC 05
Ethiopia programmes
Kalkidan Kiflu (11), Tiliyi Gerbi Kebele, Lume Woreda District, 2017.
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Sustainable Transformation of Agricultural Resources
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LIVESTOCK GROWTH PROGRAMME
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as extreme climatic events like drought and floods, as well
hides, skins, leather and dairy.
thiopian agriculture is dominated by subsistence and rain-fed production systems using few inputs and characterised by low productivity. As a result,
farmers are extremely vulnerable to external shocks such
elf Help Africa’s Livestock Growth Programme is a five-year project designed to reduce poverty by improving the productivity and competitiveness of
selected livestock value chains, including meat/live animals,
as to diseases and volatile global markets. This project is addressing these problems as well as improving food
Backed by the US Government’s Feed the Future (FTF)
security in one of the poorest and most food-insecure
Initiative, the project is also a component of USAID-
woredas (districts) of the Oromia Region.
Ethiopia’s Agricultural Growth Programme.
Self Help Africa is directly targeting 2,800 smallholders
As part of a consortium led by US-based CNFA, SHA is
to increase their capacity to diversify livelihood activities,
responsible for implementation of the project in the Oromia
improving their wealth, food and livelihood security. The
and SNNP Regions.
project is focussing on improving the production and productivity of crops and livestock and creating better
Self Help Africa is focussing on increasing the productivity
market linkages for farmers.
and competitiveness of selected livestock value chains and on improving the quality and diversity of household
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SHA is introducing appropriate technologies to tackle
diets through the intake of livestock products. Integrated
watershed and soil erosion problems. Rural savings and
into these components are the crosscutting objectives of
credit cooperatives are being linked in order to strengthen
engaging people living with HIV/AIDS, improving gender
the cooperatives, allowing farmers access to financial
equity, promoting ICT solutions, environmental mitigation
services.
and natural resource management.
Total direct beneficiaries: 2,800
Total direct beneficiaries: 5,000
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CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
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collaboration with SOS-Sahel, Farm Africa and Vita this ‘Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Project’ started in June 2015.
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Ethiopia programmes
Birtukan Shura, Misraq Shewa Zone, Oromoia.
Getachew Miko, Dirma Village, Oromia.
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his project is supporting 800 smallholder farmers to increase their production and productivity of maize and soybean. The farmers, working through Bako
Bore Farmers’ Cooperative Union, are being supported to
Developed to promote a CSA approach towards achieving
negotiate supply contracts, which use maize and soybean
food security, it is built on the three key pillars of: increasing
as its primary raw materials to produce a supercereal
productivity and incomes, enhancing resilience of
supplementary food.
livelihoods, and reducing agriculture’s contribution to climate change.
Along with technical assistance, SHA is delivering a comprehensive package of smart subsidies to enable
The project covers 15 districts categorised into four
farmers to increase production and capitalise on this market
clusters, with each member of the consortium taking
opportunity, thereby increasing their incomes and food
responsibility for implementation in a given district.
security.
The CSA Project is strengthening the resilience of
Through the cooperative union, farmers are gaining access
individuals, households and communities by improving
to improved seeds, mechanical threshers and a revolving
and diversifying livelihoods, developing community-based
loan fund. Business advice and support is being provided
management systems of resources (water, wetlands,
to the cooperatives to ensure the effective management of
farmlands, communal land and forests) and embedding
the smart subsidies, to build management capacity and to
location-specific climate change adaptation and mitigation
promote the further development of the cooperatives.
strategies into its approach.
The sustainability and scalability of the project is being ensured through reinvestment of the profits obtained by the cooperatives, firstly investing in more seed and, in later seasons, more threshing machines. This investment will enable support to be extended to more of the 14,000 members of the 27 cooperatives affiliated with the union.
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BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SEED ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION
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limate change is posing significant challenges to Ethiopian communities, affecting water and food security. The utilisation of drought-tolerant, early-
maturing crop varieties, along with conservation agriculture and improved agronomic practices, are crucial to improving resilience. The primary aim of this project is to improve the economic, ecological and organisational resilience of smallholder farmers through on-farm disaster risk management interventions in drought-prone areas of Boset District in Oromia Region. The adoption of conservation agriculture techniques, together with increased availability and utilisation of improved quality seed, is helping to increase crop production, enhance food security and alleviate rural poverty. Furthermore, by increasing the resilience of 3,880 smallholder farmers, they will be less vulnerable to drought and other climate risks and therefore better able to bounce back from disaster.
Total direct beneficiaries: 3,880
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L-R: Aster Ayele, Sinkenesh Babissa and Emebet Bayissa pictured at Abdi Gudina SACCO, primary of Keleta Union, Dodota, Oromia.
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ethiopia: Yeka Sub City, K.14, H.NO. 300 Kenenissa Bekele Street Megenagna; Off Adwa Square to Shola Market Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel. +251 116-620659 E-Mail: ethiopia@selfhelpafrica.org
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Cover: Tigist Tilahun (35), accountant at Lelimat RuSACCO, L’hitossa, Oromia, Ethiopia. Photo Credit: Christine Redmond, 2017