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Alice Omutse and her husband, Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018.
elf Help Africa in Kenya works with smallholder
SHA works with smallholder farmers, farmer groups and
farmers to move them from subsistence to
associations across the country, including in the arid and
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commercialisation through a range of projects from
semi-arid areas to address food security and nutrition
supporting those in extreme poverty, to assisting enterprise
challenges, and link farmers to markets through a farming
development and business partnerships.
as a business approach.
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PROJECT KEY
S O U T H S U D A N
Kilimo
Lake Turkana, (Lake Rudolf)
Cassava Aggregation - Supporting Smallholder Agriculture & Value Addition
E T H I O P I A
Keringet Community Empowerment Project Youth Empowerment in Kisumu
U G A N D A Extensive Agriculture and Savanna
S O M A L I A
Intensive Agriculture Forest, Rainforest, Swamp Barren
Nakuru
Mt. Kenya
K E N Y A Nairobi
Mt. Kilimanjaro T A N Z A N I A
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Donor
Total Budget
Time Frame
Implementing Partner
Programme Area
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Kenyan Initiative for Long-term Integration of Market Operators in the Value Chain (KILIMO-VC)
European Commission
€ 24,434,796
2018 2022
Imani Development Ltd (IDL)
Nationwide, with a focus on arid and semiarid lands
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Cassava Aggregation Supporting Smallholder Agriculture & Value Addition
European Commission
€ 6,517,496
2016
UCRC (Ugunja Community Resource Centre), Ustadi Foundation, Rheal Solutions, Rafiki Microfinance Bank, and TruTrade
Coastal & Western regions
Keringet Community Empowerment Project
The Rotary Foundation
Direct implementation
Keringet, Kiptulwa
Direct implementation
Kisumu
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2022
€ 82,392.75
2017 2018
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Youth Empowerment in Kisumu
Designer Group
€ 59,404
2018 2019
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Programme
Beatrice Abukayot at her farm in Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018.
Beatrice Abukayot at her farm in Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018.
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KENYAN INITIATIVE FOR LONG TERM INTEGRATION OF MARKET OPERATORS IN THE VALUE CHAIN (KILIMO-VC)
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Objective: Improved integration of smallholder farmers/pastoralists in climate smart value chains.
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ILIMO-VC is a €24 millon five-year agribusiness
or customers requiring inputs, finance and equipment.
support programme that is part of the European
Self Help Africa is collaborating with Imani Development, a
Union’s Kenya-AgriFI programme.
private economic development consultancy, focusing on three specific thematic areas:
It supports productive, adapted and market-integrated
1. Climate smart agricultural inputs
smallholder agriculture, including a contribution to the Africa
2. Agri-processing and aggregation
Investment Facility.
3. Nutrition
The objective of the project is to increase the capacity of
The funded projects are required to support businesses in a
100,000 smallholder farmers/pastoralists to practice
wide variety of undertakings, including farmer training on
environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture as
climate adaptation, capacity development of cooperatives,
a business in inclusive value chains.
equipment investments, improving quality standards, participatory research and, marketing and branding
Over five years (2018-2022), KILIMO- VC will assist
investments, among others.
smallholder households to move from subsistence farming to a more business-oriented approach. There will be a focus
The KILIMO-VC project seeks to explore and address some
on:
of the barriers to women’s participation,together with the question of access and control of resources. It provides
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Promoting environmentally sustainable farming
training both to farmers’ organisations and to community-
practices;
based organisations.
Participation of groups that are often excluded, including women and rural youth. They will have
KILIMO-VC is backed by contributions from international,
opportunities to participate, and profit from doing
public, private and civil society interests.The challenge fund
business across the value-chain through input supply,
is financed by the European Commission (90%), and by
production, processing, aggregation, marketing and
Slovak Aid and Self Help Africa (10%).
retail. It is led and managed by Self Help Africa, with technical At the heart of the KILIMO-VC is an €18 million ‘Challenge
support from our partner, the consultancy firm, Imani
Fund’ which will be invested in supporting enterprise
Development Ltd. As part of a blended financing model, the
development projects.
programme supports challenge fund applicants to leverage investment from European Investment Bank (EIB) partner
The fund awards grants that need to be matched by the
institutions.
applicants, to support agri-businesses, NGOs and other entities to use market-based approaches to tackle particular development challenges. The primary challenge is to increase the integration of smallscale farmers and semi-nomadic pastoralists, who are frequently excluded from agri-value chains. Business models have smallholders as suppliers of agri-products
• 100,000 total direct beneficiaries • 10,000 net equivalent jobs created • 50 agri-businesses supported (to increase turnover by at least 25%)
• 15 trade associations supported 4
THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: • 100,000 smallholders/pastoralists integrated in various agricultural value chains • Increased turnover by at least 25% for at least 50 agri-enterprises • 10,000 jobs created • 70% increase in smallholder/pastoralist production • At least 20,000 hectares under climate-smart land management practices • 15 trade associations strengthened • 600,000 livelihoods transformed
Technicians at a milk processing facility in Keringet, Kenya.
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CASSAVA AGGREGATION - SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE AND VALUE ADDITION
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Objective: Increased food and nutrition security, employment and income among 28,000 farming households.
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assava is increasingly promoted by the
harvesting and post-harvest handling, processing and
Government of Kenya due to its multiple uses as
storage.
flour, starch, and livestock feed, and its ability to
provide food throughout the year. However, it remains a
The project is also addressing capacity gaps among regular
largely underdeveloped sector and significant support is
cassava farmers, around knowledge of best-practice
required to enable smallholder farmers to increase their
cassava production. SHA and the Ministry of Agriculture,
incomes by capitalising upon growing demand.
Livestock and Fisheries, using the Lead Farmer and Farmer Field School approaches, are training Lead Farmers to
To this end, Self Help Africa (SHA) is leading a five-year
disseminate trainings to 28,000 smallholders (at least 60%
programme, funded primarily by the European Union,
women), organised into business groups. Farmers are
to strengthen the competitiveness of the cassava value
being trained on good agricultural practices and climate
chain in Kenya. Building on a previous work funded by the
smart agriculture, farming as a business; including farm and
Walmart Foundation and Irish Aid, which reached 12,000
market planning, enterprise profitability, quality standards,
households, the current project scales this to 28,000
aggregation, post-harvest management and value-addition.
farmers (including 60% women) in Western, Nyanza, Eastern and Coastal regions of Kenya. The programme
In line with the programme’s value chain approach, we are
is being implemented with local NGOs UCRC, RhEAL
investing in the development of cooperatives, which enable
Solutions and USTADI, TruTrade, and Rafiki Microfinance
farmers to bulk their produce, reduce input costs and
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provide marketing and market linkages. The cooperatives are also linked to financial institutions, in particular Rafiki
This project is facilitating the availability of quality-declared
Microfinance Bank, who provide working capital and
cassava planting material, working with the Kenya
support further expansion. The programme has also
Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
supported Rafiki Microfinance Bank to develop suitable loan
to promote farmer production of quality cassava stems.
products for the different actors along the cassava value chain.
SHA is training seed producers on stem production, soil fertility, field management, pest and disease control,
Total direct beneficiaries: • 28,000 households
• 16,800 women
• 11,200 men
THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: • 5,600 net equivalent jobs created • 23,800 cassava farmers linked to market opportunities • 100 aggregation centres supported • Building capacity of 14 MSMEs and cooperatives
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Pasiliano Omaseti , North Teso, Busia, 2018.
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Suzanna Omwango (52) with daughter Naomi (19). Kamkuyu village, Migori County,.
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KERINGET COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN KISUMU
Objective: to improve access of rural households to clean water and sanitation.
Objective: Increased access to employment opportunities for 200 youths.
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ocated in the fertile Rift Valley, the Keringet area is very rural and lacks basic infrastructure. Most of the population are subsistence farmers with low incomes.
In the neighbourhood of Kiptulwa, many households struggle
ost young people living in the informal settlements in Kisumu county have limited opportunities to access meaningful employment. Youth
Unemployment is high in Kisumu, due to the slowdown in
to access clean water for both household domestic needs
employment in the region and the lack of higher education,
and for livestock and agriculture, and so have to walk over
is one of the biggest issues facing youth in Kisumu and has
1km to fetch water from an unprotected source. The main
led to idleness, drug use and desperation among the youths
primary school in Kiptulwa has also been without proper
in Kisumu, especially those found in Kondele and Obunga
latrines or pumped, safe water for a number of years.
slums.
In partnership with a local Rotary club (Rotary Keringeta),
In partnership with Designer Group, an Irish construction
SHA is increasing access to clean, safe water and
and engineering company working in Kisumu on the East
encouraging good hygiene and sanitation practices
African Breweries site, SHA are creating opportunities for
among the community and primary school pupils. Local
200 youths (50% male, 50% female) living near the EAB site
water management committees have been set up in the
to develop basic entrepreneurial, financial literacy and life
community and the school and these committees have
skills over a 12 month period. A selection of the participants
helped to identify needs and appropriate sites for water
will also be afforded placement and internship opportunities
access points. Two boreholes will be drilled and equipped,
with Designer Group and other local businesses.
two springs rehabilitated, pumps installed and a water tank and tap provided at the school. Already, there are fewer
Further to this, the project will partner with local technical
incidences of diarrhoea and other water borne diseases.
institutions to create opportunities for 30 partial scholarships
Total direct beneficiaries: • 3,371 with increased access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene • 538 school children with access to WASH facilities at school
and internship opportunities in local cooperatives for young people.
Total direct beneficiaries: 200 youths (aged 18 to 34)
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June 2018
Suzanna Omwango (52), Kamkuyu village, Migori County Photo credit: Ken O’Halloran, 2015.
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