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Julia Gitari (46), Ol-Rangai village, County Nakuru, 2015.
elf Help Africa in Kenya assists smallholder farmers
SHA works with smallholder farmers, farmer groups and
to move from subsistence to prosperity through a
associations in the arid and semi-arid lands to address food
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range of projects from supporting those in extreme
security and nutrition, and link farmers to markets through a
poverty, to assisting enterprise development and business
farming as a business approach.
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01. APHIA Plus 04. Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development Scholarship Scheme, 2014/2015 Class 03. Gorta Global Village
UGANDA
07. Water and Sanitation in Keringet
SOMALIA
KENYA Mt. Kenya Nakuru
02. Cassava Aggregation Supporting Smallholder Agriculture & Value Addition
Nairobi
TANZANIA
Mt. Kilimanjaro
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06. AflaScope
05. Empowering Women within the Cashew Value Chain
Time Frame
Implementing Partner
Programme Area
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Building Sustainable Livelihoods of families made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS (APHIA plus)
USAID / FHI360
€ 500,000
2012 2017
Directly implemented
Nakuru, Narok
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Cassava Aggregation Supporting Smallholder Agriculture & Value Addition
European Union, Walmart Foundation and Irish Aid
€ 7,500,000
2016
Rafiki Microfinance Bank, RHEAL Solutions, Ugunja Community Resource Centre (UCRC), USTADI Foundation and TruTrade
Siaya, Migori, Homa Bay, Busia, Kisumu, Kitui and Kilifi
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Gorta Global Village Keringet
Unrestricted funding
€ 2,116,261
2012 2017
KCSEED Trust
Keringet
04
Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development. Scholarship Scheme 2014-15 Class
Unrestricted funding
€ 63,920
2014
BAC
Molo & Nakuru County
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Empowering Women within the Cashew Value Chain
Walmart Foundation
€ 308,000
2015 2017
USTADI Foundation
Kilifi
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Aflascope
InnovateUK
€ 17.564
2016 2017
SHA
Kenya
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Water and Sanitation in Keringet
Unrestricted Funding
€94,219
2017
KCSEED Trust
Keringet
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2021
Kenya programmes
Total Budget
Donor
Programme
2017
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS OF FAMILIES MADE VULNERABLE BY HIV/AIDS (APHIA PLUS)
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he APHIA Plus project is increasing access to
Food security activities include crop production through
economic security initiatives for marginalised, poor
kitchen garden techniques and the promotion of
and disadvantaged groups, particularly families
drought tolerant crop production. Training on enterprise
affected by HIV and AIDS. Through this project groups
development and management is offered whereby the
are linked with opportunities and a range of activities to
support group members are encouraged to choose from a
strengthen their economic status.
range of enterprises based on their interest and context. These enterprises include dairy goat rearing, local goat
APHIA plus works with support groups from Nakuru and
breeding, poultry production and rabbit keeping. A key,
Narok counties. Leadership and group dynamics training,
and very successful, element of this project has been the
training in enterprise development and management are
introduction of roof water harvesting and drip irrigation
provided. These groups also receive support through
technologies which reduces labour for vulnerable people
existing extension services.
and allows for growing of vegetables even in dry season.
Total direct beneficiaries: 4,200 3
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Richard Ngetich (37), Njerian village, Bomet County. 2015.
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CASSAVA AGGREGATION - SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE & VALUE ADDITION
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 his European Union, Walmart Foundation and Irish
of best-practice cassava production and sustainable
Aid–funded project aims to enable 28,000 farmers
agricultural intensification, SHA and the Ministry for
(including 60% women) in Western, Nyanza, Eastern
Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will, using the Lead
and Coastal regions of Kenya, organised in four farmer-
Farmer and Farmer Field School approaches, train Lead
owned cooperatives, to increase cassava production and
Farmers as trainers to disseminate trainings to 28,000
incomes through meeting current and emerging demand for
smallholders (at least 60% women), organised into producer
high-quality cassava products. Farmers will produce tubers
groups. The trainings for farmers will focus on production,
for home consumption and commercial supply in chipped
field management, pest and disease control, harvesting and
and/or fresh form.
post-harvest handling, processing and storage. Farmers will be trained on farming as a business; including farm
This project will facilitate the availability of quality-declared
planning, market planning, enterprise profitability, cashflow
cassava planting material, working with the Kenya
analysis, quality standards, group production, aggregation
Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
and value-addition. The project will also create 5,600 net
to promote farmer production of quality cassava stems.
equivalent jobs amongst the Farmer Business Groups
Seed producers will be registered with the Kenya Plant
supported. Cross-cutting issues of gender and nutrition will
Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), who will monitor
be incorporated into training.
production and certify stems as high-quality and diseasefree as appropriate. SHA will train seed producers on
SHA will support the formation and registration of 4 farmer
stem production, soil fertility, field management, pest and
cooperatives to take up cassava marketing and business
disease control, harvesting and post-harvesting handling,
development. Cooperatives enable farmers to bulk their
processing and storage.
produce, reduce input costs and provide marketing and training channels. SHA will link cooperatives to financial
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In an effort to facilitate cassava production and capacity
institutions who can provide working capital and support
development for farmers to address limited knowledge
further expansion.
Total direct beneficiaries: 28,000 smallholder farming households
Kenya programmes
Bernard Kemei (40) , with his wife Zedy (30) and baby Faith, daugter Abagail and son Elisha, Sonokwek village, Bomet County, 2015.
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GORTA GLOBAL VILLAGE - KERINGET
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he Keringet Community Empowerment project was developed over years using the Global Management Approach. Community representatives, including women
and youth groups specifically chosen to participate, underwent
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SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE & RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME 2014-15 CLASS
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he Baraka Agricultural College project aims to improve agricultural knowledge and strengthen rural development and extension services in Kenya and
across the border in neighbouring Uganda.
training in identifying needs for their community. The community identified their strengths (such as dairy and potato production)
The project supports the training and education of students
as well as opportunities (local construction activity) and needs
in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development through
(local clean water supplies).
the Baraka Agricultural College certificate course. Following graduation the knowledge and skills gained will be shared
In partnership with Keringet Community Social, Economic,
with the communities. Graduates return to work within their
Environmental Development Trust (KCSEED) this project
community and contribute to the transfer of sustainable
is designed to improve the food security, ncomes and
agricultural knowledge and techniques. The project thus
environment of the Keringet community while promoting
improves the livelihoods of graduates and improves farming
the health of 3,371 households in the area. The overall aim
practices and production more widely.
of this programme is a healthy community which is socially, economically and culturally developed, living in harmony with their environment. The community will work together to promote food, economic, environmental and health security, as well as establishing the necessary institutions (e.g. the Trust, monitoring committees) to deliver the programme. Self Help Africa provides specific support to implement aspects of the local development plan, including the provision of safe drinking water, improving market access by improving infrastructure, launching a range of enterprise development initiatives surrounding dairy and potato production, and adopting solar energy practices for local households.
Total direct beneficiaries: 3,371
Total direct beneficiaries: 676
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Kenya programmes
Susan Wanjiku Kamau (45), Kwa-Gitau, Nakuru County, 2015.
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EMPOWERING WOMEN WITHIN THE CASHEW VALUE CHAIN
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his Walmart Foundation-funded project is being jointly implemented by Self Help Africa and the African Cashew Alliance in two countries – Ghana
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AFLASCOPE
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flaScope is a cross-disciplinary collaboration with Crop Innovations, Bora Biotech, Secure Harvest, AgSenze and Pepsi, to examine the feasibility of
and Kenya. Through the use two low-cost community-
using an acoustic separation platform for purification of
based extension approaches, ‘lead farmers’, where farmers
aflatoxins from crops.
are linked to district agricultural departments for on-going support, and ‘farmer field schools’, an approach that
Testing & monitoring are vital but, due to complex sample
empowers communities with skills to undertake improved
prep, high cost, inaccessibility & lack of information,
agricultural practices, this project will work with a total of
aflatoxin testing is not thoroughly implement. This project
35,000 households. Within Kenya, Self Help Africa will work
is developing a novel, rapid & chemical-free procedure for
with 10,000 smallholder cashew farmers (50% women)
extracting & concentrating aflatoxins. When integrated with
through our partner, USTADI Foundation, in Kilifi county.
down-stream diagnostic advances, the extraction platform could enable a low-cost, sensitive, portable test system for
The project aims to train cashew farmers on increasing
on-site aflatoxin monitoring, increasing ease & frequency of
production of quality cashew nuts and has a strategic focus
testing, & potentially improve decontamination.
on empowering women and men within the cashew nut value chain. Cashew producers will diversify incomes by utilising by-products of cashew farming and intercropping with legumes. Training of farmer associations in value chain management and ‘farming as a business’ will enable them to engage in informed relationships with buyers and negotiate prices. The project will also address the low and unstructured organisation of cashew farmers. Organising farmers will enable them to institutionalise knowledge and best practices and create a platform for sharing and multiplying learning and experiences.
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Total direct beneficiaries: 10,000
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Kenya programmes
Rose Mutai (49) ,Semoi Village, Bomet County, 2015.
WATER AND SANITATION IN KERINGET
ccess to water and latrines is a huge issue for households in the Kiptulwa area of Kerringet. Children are unable to access clean water or
latrines in school facilities. Households are unable to access clean, safe, potable water for both household domestic needs and access to water for agriculture. This area is characterised by an abundance of livestock, and while a relatively high rainfall in the area, households are unable to source water for cattle close to households. This Rotary Ireland-funded project will facilitate the provision of clean water and access to school latrines for communities both for domestic and agricultural use over a one year period.
Total direct beneficiaries: 3,371
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Cover: Khadija Kuroi, Machanga, Kenya. Photo credit: Ken O’Halloran, 2015.
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