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Newsletter 2010-11

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womEn’S SUccESS 5

rUgby STar in

EThiopia 15

farmErS raLLy To

africa’S aiD 14



Economic EnpowErmEnT

making a LaSTing DiffErEncE

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hie Executie

Arica makes progresson millennium goals

Ghana and Ethiopia hae made

signicant progress towards

achieing the Millennium

Deelopment Goals (MDGs) on

reducing poerty and hunger, according to

new studies. World leaders gathered in New

York recently to reiew MDG progress, and

heard UN General Secretary Ban Ki Moon

make an impassioned appeal to politicians

and other donors to nish the job that they

started when launching the MDGs a decade

ago. He urged continued inestment in

deelopment aid, and asked countries not

“to balance their budgets on the backs o the

poor at a time o recession”.

O the nine countries in sub Saharan Arica in

which Sel Help Arica operates, Ghana andEthiopia achieed most in terms o reduction

o hunger and poerty, the rst MDG. The

remaining seen ‘SHA’ countries all made

progress towards this goal.

The aerage proportion o people liing

in poerty in Arica declined rom 52% in

1990 to 40% in 2008, with strong progress

achieed in a number o countries. Progress

on reducing hunger remains slow – down

rom 31% to 28% in the same period.

15 o the 21 poorest perorming countries,

measured by the numbers o underweight

children, are rom sub-Saharan Arica. In all

o these countries, the share o underweight

children increased oer the study period.

A great deal has been achieed in the past

decade to improe the lies o millions o

ulnerable people around the globe. Yet

the global economic crisis and surge in

world ood prices in 2008-2009 reersed

some o these gains, and actually pushed

an additional 70 million people into extreme

poerty and hunger in the deeloping world.

Today, many Arican countries are

experiencing modest economic growth at a

time o recession in Europe and the United

States. Although this growth is rom a low

base, progress has been made, and can be

attributed to a number o actors – including

improed communications technology.

Sustainable agricultural deelopment, which

was placed at the heart o the poerty

reduction initiatie launched by President

Barack Obama at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila,Italy, last year, remains central to global

eorts to end hunger and poerty in the

deeloping world. This commitment is ital to

hundreds o millions o smallholder armers

across sub-Saharan Arica, where improed

agricultural research, stronger extension

serices, better access to seed, inputs and

irrigation technologies, and the ability to get

arm produce to market is essential.

Agriculture and rural deelopment is a key to

achieing the key millennium deelopment

goal – to hale world hunger and poerty by

2015. With the continuing support o our

institutional, corporate and indiidual donors,

it is an objectie that Sel Help Arica and our

many Arican partners will continue to work

towards in the years ahead.

Ghana is one o the Arican countries making most progress towards meeting the frst MDG - the eradication o

hunger and poverty. Bill Bawasapal is a smallholder armer in Duusi, Ghana. Sel Help Arica is hosting a year-

long blog where he talks about his work and his lie. Visit www.selhelparica.net/wp to fnd out more.

Integrated rural deelopment projects begun

by Sel Help Arica in the late nineties hae

succeeded in improing incomes and long-

term ood security in their areas, according to

a new independent ealuation.

The study, which tracked the success o two

projects - one in Ethiopia between 1999 and

2005, and the other in Zambia rom 1994 to

2005 - was commissioned by Sel Help Arica

and carried out by an independent consul-

tant.

The report concluded that in the Ethiopian

project - in Dodota - the growth in household

incomes among beneciaries was consider-

able and, in some cases, lie changing. The

project made a positie contribution to

supporting crop diersity, helping to signi-

cantly increase the production o maize, te

and wheat. Productiity ell ater the project

ended, but remained aboe pre-project leels.In addition, the introduction o drought toler-

ant maize resulted in a threeold increase in

production.

The study also identied long-term success in

seed multiplication, egetable cultiation and

poultry production.

A major success in the Dodota project was

ound in its saings and credit cooperaties,

where members reported that the oppor-

tunity to borrow credit was lie-changing,

sometimes een lie-saing, enabling many

to work their way out o a poerty trap that

landlessness, ood insecurity and inequity had

placed them.

In Zambia, the analysis o lasting outcomes

rom the work at Ipongo reealed that its

beneciaries continued to be comparatiely

more ood secure than non-beneciaries, and

were able to enhance their incomes through

diersication into other actiities since the

project ended in 2005.

The study also noted that the project compo-

nent with most widespread eectieness was

the spread o sustainable land management

practices, particularly crop-rotation.

The consultant noted that in both projects,

ood security measures were diluted by anemphasis on integrated rural deelopment,

with the result that project interentions

lacked a critical mass.

Sel Help Arica has since moed away rom

these traditional integrated projects, towards

a more ocused approach on ood security

and income generation.

Earlier projects have lasting impact

Cooperation the key tosuccessul developmentOrganising rural agricultural communities into

co-operaties, producer groups and business

associations can play a ital role in enabling

rural armers to achiee economic empower-

ment or themseles and or their amilies.

Sel Help Arica is supporting armers in this

way – mobilizing growers into irrigation

clubs and commodity groups, supporting

the ormation o marketing networks, and

deeloping seed producer and other armer

co-operaties, so that small landholders can

leerage infuence, secure better access toserices, and can mobilise more eectiely

and lobby or more benecial trading terms

on behal o members.

In Arica, with its weak state

support serices, limited access

to inputs such as seed, tech-

nologies and knowledge, and

the challenges that result rom

unpredictable weather patterns,

poor quality soils, and uncertain-

ly oer land tenure, smallholder

armers ace almost insurmount-

able obstacles i they work alone

to try to scale up their actiities.

By working together thatpattern is changing, and the

examples o success are many

and aried.

Peanut LinksSel Help Arica is set to initiate a new

pilot project in Ethiopia that will seek to

link local armers with a major interna-

tional nutrition initiatie.

The project aims to proide high quality

ingredients to a nutrition company, which

will then be used in the manuacture o

Ready to Use Foods (RUFs).

These RUFs are produced in the orm o

a highly-ortied nutritional paste or the

preention and treatment o malnutrition.

Initially, the project will ocus on ground-

nuts (peanuts), beore moing on to

include corn and also soya.

The project aims to increase smallholder

armer income by linking production with

the RUF manuacturer’s needs, and will

also delier research data on the impact

o this initiatie on armer income.

Sel Help Arica has assisted with the

creation o similar large-scale market

linkages or its armer co-operaties in

Ethiopia in the past – or durum wheat

with a major national producer o pasta,

and with malting barley or a national

brewing company.

Seed multipliers harvesting their crop in Ethiopia

SELF HELP AFRICA DRIvES CO-OPERATIvES ACROSS AFRICA INCLUDING:

etHIOPIA – Scores o seed multiplication co-operaties are producing good quality seed stock, and thus ensuring that armers are

getting good quality seed, and at the right time

ZAmBIA – Commodity groups are working together to produce cereals, egetables and other ood products at a scale that allows them

to source wider markets and negotiate prices

erItreA – Irrigated armer groups are working together to store collected rainwater and establish large scale irrigated growing

businesses

UGANDA - Farmers groups hae set up cassaa multiplication sites and are distributions cuttings across wide areas

KeNYA – Dairy armers hae improed their arming practices, and sourced new markets

BUrKINA FAsO – Rural communities are rehabilitating land, to increase productiity

mAlAwI – Producer groups hae deeloped alternate income generating actiities including sh arming and egetable production



womEn in DEVELopmEnT

EmpowEring womEn, powEring africa

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Credit scheme hits new heightsSel Help Arica’s rural saings

and credit programme is set to

reach a landmark 30,000

members, this Autumn.

The membership, attached to more than

210 local saings and credit co-operaties

(SACCOs) has been recruited since 2007,

when the rural SACCO e-year deelopment

programme was started in southern Ethiopia.

Operating in both Oromia and Southern

Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region

(SNNPR), the SACCO programme had grown

to 29,770 by mid-2010, and has issued

oer 13,000 small loans totaling more than

€750,000 to its members to support small

scale business actiities.

214 primary (local) saings and credit co-ops

are being oerseen by e oerseeing SACCO

Unions – Awash, Keleta, Ia Boru, Nestanet

Fana and Sidama Chalala - and are promot-

ing small-scale saings amongst rural amilies,

and disbursing loans to enable households to

deelop new sources o income.

Training and support is proided by Sel Help

Arica to support SACCO membership to

administer and run the aairs o the Unions

and primay co-operaties.

The programme specically targets resource

poor women, who requently do not hae

the opportunity or means to establish their

own income generating enterprises. More

than 63% o current SACCO members are

women.

A recently completed independent post

project ealuation o work carried out by

Sel Help Arica in Ethiopia in the late 1990s

and early 2000s ound saings and credit

co-operaties in the Dodota region to hae

been hugely successul – enabling women to

start businesses and achiee a high leel o

economic independence.

Members o the Fursa Women’s Savings and Credit Co-Op in Huruta, Ethiopia.

Growing their way out o povertyIn the e years since the Mihyaw

horticultural group began their

work in Eritrea, they hae rebuilt

homes, educated children, bought oxen and

other liestock. They hae also inested in

clean water, arm buildings and a wide range

o other household improements.

It has been a long and transormational jour-

ney or the 20 women members, all mothers

o young amilies, who rst linked up withSel Help Arica ater receiing a diesel pump

rom an Early Childhood Deelopment (ECD)

international NGO.

Rather than utilize the pump as just a labour-

saing deice to help them to draw water

rom a illage well, the members spoke to

Sel Help Arica about the other potential

benets o their new utility, and the Mihyaw

Horticultural Group was born. The group

members leased a e-acre plot o land in

the ertile alley basin rom illagers or 2,000

Eritrean Naka (€100) a year, and set about

ploughing and digging the land, and prepar-ing it or cultiation.

They receied support rom Sel Help Arica

with the construction o two shallow wells

and with training in horticultural production,

and were assisted by local goernment with

the construction o a narrow 2km access road

rom the alley to the nearest main road.

The group members hae used their irrigated

land to produce chilli, potatoes, cabbage,

swiss chard, onions and garlic, all produce

that they use or household consumption,

and which is sold by members in the local

illage market, and is sold to traders to sell in

the bigger market o Mendeera.

Sel Help Arica’s partners in Ghana

hae launched a pilot dry season

gardening project specically targeted

at local women. Members o two producer

groups in Mozio area o Bolgatanga hae

receied training and equipment, to support

them to produce egetables on irrigated land

close to their homes.

The group has collectiely receied equipment

to support them with their actiities – includ-

ing treadle pumps, spraying machines and

digging implements, and hae also receied

seed to begin production o onion, tomato,

cabbage and pepper on their allotments.

Produce that is grown by group members will

be used or domestic consumption and or

sale, and oer time the cost o inputs will be

repaid by the two groups to SHA’s partners

TRAX Ghana, to allow or the purchase o

new equipment to support similar groupings

elsewhere.

ADDECOL, West Arican partners o Sel Help

Arica in Burkina Faso, are inoled in a simi-

lar project, and hae helped women mem-

bers o ‘Wenden Kondo (‘God Will Proide’)

group in Dassui with a market gardening

project in their illage.

Group secretary Zungrana Awaya says that

their our-acres market garden has allowed

members to generate a new source o

income and has gien young people a reason

to stay in the illage. ‘My son, who is 17, has

said that he may stay because there is now a

chance to earn a liing here,’ she said.

Project targets market gardens

Togolese womens group celebrate Arican Women’s Day in song, dance and drama

More than 300 women rom oer a

dozen rural illages conened recently

or a rally to celebrate Arican Women’s

Day in north eastern Togo.

‘Women and Leadership was the central

theme o the eent, which was organised in

Like Kounkouog illage by Sel Help Arica’s

local partners TRAX Togo or householders

and women’s groups across the district.

Through song, drama and spoken word, a

series o participating women’s groups deli-

ered stirring perormances to demonstrate

the ital role that women play in local society.

They highlighted the huge demands and the

long hours that women spend working, and

pointed out how traditional customs and

practices still discriminated against women

in the household, on the arm and in other

aspects o local lie.

TRAX Togo chairperson Mme Kabissa Conort

said that the women’s day rally proided

local women with the opportunity to air and

discuss their concerns and helped them nd

support to oercome the challenges they

ace. ‘The woman hae shown just how

much work is expected o them eeryday,”

she said, as groups demonstrated in peror-

mance and song how enormous demands

are placed on them in Togolese society – as

mothers, nurses, cooks, uel and water gath-

erers, and much more.

Eent organizer Yette Nabebe said that by

speaking out about their lies and their con-

cerns, rural women were taking an important

step in bringing about change in their lies.

‘Gender inequality is a daily challenge or

many women in rural Togo, and it will not

change oernight. But change is taking place,

and eents like this help women to under-

stand that it is not a problem just or them

– it is a part o a wider issue that needs to be

tackled in society.’

Training helpssavings group

160 women hae taken part in an

intensie training course in

adance o the establishment o

new women’s saings and credit co-opera-

ties in remote south-western Eritrea.

The programme, which also proided training

in management, administration and leader-

ship or close to 40 women has been carriedout in the Gogne district o Gash Barka

Region, where Sel Help Arica has been

working or the past e years.

The training programme paes the way or

the ormation o a number o new member

run saings and credit co-operaties, who will

proide local women with small loans to al-

low them to establish small income generat-

ing enterprises.

Elsewhere, close to 100 women in Gogne

participated in a training course in home eco-

nomics, and a urther 30 receied training

in the manuacture o uel ecient cooking

stoes. More than 425 stoes hae been pro-

duced and sold by local women in the project

area, in the past three years.

Lives rebuiltMany o the members o Mwireri

Women’s Group in Kenya tell a

similar story - o destroyed homes,

crops burned and property lost during the

ugly political iolence that marred Kenya’s

national elections nearly three years ago.

Most o the 31 Mwireri women spent nearly

two years in Goernment reugee camps set

up to protect communities aected by ethnic

clashes.

When calm was restored they moed to

‘transitional camps’ rom where they could

trael daily back to their homesteads, and

begin repairs and replanting, and start to

rebuild their homes and past lies again.

The Mwireri Women’s Group began working

with Sel Help Arica in Spring 2010,

supporting the group with the establishment

o a ‘reoling und’ saings scheme that

allowed them to buy household essentials,

and begin new crop production on their land.

Each o the participating members receied

seed and ertilizer to support a one acres crop

o seed potato, and also began planting and

growing garden peas on their land.

A scarcity o clean seed stock rom the

agricultural deelopment co-op in nearby

Molo has been identied by the Mwireri

members as an opportunity, and they are

optimistic that their new project will both

meet the need locally or good quality seed,

and also proide a aluable source o income

or their members.

“ th goup a uppod ih

h abihn o a ‘voving

und’ aving ch ha

aod h o buy houhod

nia,and bgin n cop

poducion on hi and “

Women rally or change

Zungrana Awaya in her vegetable garden

Two o the members o Mihyaw womens horticultural group in Eritrea



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New clinics fght plant disease

Beneftting rom ruit tree roll-out

Plant clinics trials will shortly get

under way in Uganda, helping to

train communities to identiy and

treat plant diseases.

This is a new deelopment or Sel Help

Arica, and aims to reduce crop losses rom

plant diseases and pests.

Plant clinics are simple places, oten little

more than a table and some chairs, in a

public, armer-riendly place in a small town.

The ‘plant doctors’ are local extension work-

ers rom armer organizations, goernment

extension agencies or NGOs

Without these clinics, and aced with plant

disease, armers most oten turn to oth-

ers in their area or adice. Howeer, ew

people, are qualied to gie this adice, and

the armer will oten lose his or her crop. In

Uganda oer the last year, the staple cassaa

has been hit hard by brown streak disease,

and its impact has been heaily elt.

The new project will establish plant clinics in

Kayunga in central Uganda, and at Kumi-

Bukedea, and will ocus on identiying and

treating plant diseases, as well as disseminat-

ing best agronomical practices.

The project is the result o a joint initiatie

between Sel Help Arica, district local go-

ernment sta, and CABI-Europe, a non-prot

science-based deelopment organisation.

The rst Sel Help Arica

inter-country learning exchange

has just taken place, helping to

spread learning on seed system deelopment

across Arica between goernment, ciil

society and research partners.

The eent, at Awassa, Ethiopia, allowed

participants rom a number o countries to

share good practice and promote new ideas.

Improing access to good quality seed,

adapted to local conditions at the right time

and price is critical to smallholder armers.

The exchange looked at armer/community/

local seed multiplication systems and coered

issues rom eld practice to armer organisa-

tion and policy.

The exchange inoled eld isits, a work-

shop with presentations and debates and re-

ned a publication to promote the practices.

An innoatie training initiatie

that seeks to extend the reach

o Sel Help Arica’s deelop-

ment work in Ethiopia to two northern

regions o the country, was recently

concluded.

The project brought together goernment

extension workers and model armers rom

three regions, and proided them with train-

ing in homestead gardening, the deelop-

ment o priate nurseries, and new skills in

egetable and ruit production.

The training scheme was initiatie under an

agreement between Sel Help Arica and

goernment agencies, and was carried out in

collaboration with the Goernment’s Melkasa

Agricultural Research Centre, with whom

SHA is collaborating.

Close to 100 goernment extension work-ers and 600 model armers rom districts

within Oromia, Amhara and Tigray regions o

Ethiopia were targeted by the scheme, which

included a series o training days, as well as

exposure isits to SHA’s recently completed

Huruta rural deelopment programme.

Partipants, who included 72 deelopment

agents and 24 sta o agricultural and rural

deelopment oces, attended a number o

day long training sessions in Adama,

Training proided during the course will be

disseminated through extension agents and

model armers, who will promote egetable

and ruit production, nursery deelopment,

and homestead gardening to more than

1,800 households – approx. 10,000 people,

in communities where they are working.

accESS To SEED/Training

farm LEarning a kEy To growTh

Ensuring that there was seed

stock aailable to plant when it

was needed was what prompted

brothers Louis and Eans Mwachiaba to team

up with other armers in the illage o Chiala

in Lusaka Proince, Zambia, and orm their

own seed multiplication group.

Growers o cereals, as well as tomatoes, cab-

bage, rape, green beans and other egetables

on an irrigated plot that they inherited rom

their late ather, a ormer illage chie, the

brothers say that although the allotment pro-

ides them with three crops each year, the

scarcity o good quality seed had hindered

their progress.

Forming a small seed multiplication enterprise

with 23 other armers in the area, they hae

been producing beans and maize seed that

they sell locally or the past two years.

The group has receied support rom Sel

Help Arica’s local partners OPAD with the

multiplication and storage o seed, and with

accessing markets where they can sell this

aluable new commodity.

Le has moed switly or 63 year old

Disi Kadanga and his wie Meria since

they began working with Sel Help

Arica in Kalembo, Malawi, three years ago.

The recipient o a 10 kg starter bag o

groundnut seed under a ‘reoling’ seed

scheme initiated in 2008, he harested a total

o more than 1.7 tonnes o nuts that year,

and ater repaying the seed loan made

27,000 Malawian Kwacha (€160) rom hiseorts.

With this money Disi and Meria made a

number o new inestments – buying an

automatic sprayer, a mobile phone and a

second-hand sewing machine to start a

home-based tailoring business. Disi and his

amily extended the area that they planted

with groundnuts in 2009, and earned 43,000

Kwachas (€220).

The amily put some o this money on deposit

with a illage saings and credit group linked

to the FINCOOP (Finance Co-Operatie Ltd),

who had been introduced to the area by

the project, and now intend to borrow to

deelop their poultry rearing actiities and

begin cotton arming on their arm.

Agents reach new arms

Zambian villagers multiply seed

Seeds success

A network o local community

deelopment agents (CDAs) is being

deployed by Sel Help Arica to roll

out the distribution o improed quality seed

and a programme o sustainable arming

practices, at the Kumi-Bukedea project in

Northern Uganda.

More than 150 oluntary CDAs hae been

recruited since the project was started in late

2008. Through this network actiities are be-

ing promoted at local leel to more than 34

parishes across seen sub-counties.

In e years, it is expected that the project

will reach upwards o 27,000 households.

The community deelopment agents, who

are themseles small scale armers inoled

in project actiities, are the primary drier o

work at local leel.

They receie ongoing mentoring and support

in their work rom agricultural ocers on

secondment rom the Ministry o Agriculture.

One o the primary ocuses o the Kumi-

Bukedea Project has been the promotion o

a range o ood production actiities, and

specically the promotion o improed quality

groundnut and cassaa amongst household-

ers in the area.

To achiee this the community deelopment

agents identied local ‘seed multiplier’ arm-

ers in each parish, and proided them with

planting materials secured by Sel Help Arica

rom local agricultural research stations. 716

acres o cassaa multiplication sites hae since

been established, and a urther 463 acres o

groundnut seed multiplication is taking place.

CDAs were gien bicycles last year to extend

the areas they could coer.

Four armers in the northern part o

Uganda’s Kayunga rural deelop-

ment project hae been supported

by Sel Help Arica with the establishment o

ruit tree nurseries in the area.

More than two acres o land hae been set

aside on the arms o participating armers,

and hae been planted with grated citrus

and mango seedlings.

Oer 1,500 citrus seedlings are currently be-

ing grown by the armers, a similar number

o mango seedlings are growing, while a

urther 1,500 citrus trees are ready or grat-

ing in the coming months.

The tree seedlings will be sold by the produc-

ers to local armers who will be encouraged

to grow citrus and mango trees as a means

o diersiying household income, and to

improe local diets. There is a ready market

or the sale o oranges, lemons and mango in

local towns and illages.

The promotion o ruit tree seedlings is a

part o ongoing eorts to replant trees in

the Kayunga area, while the initiatie also

proides additional orage material or bees

in the area.

Meanwhile, one new central tree nursery was

established in the district during the early

months o 2010, while inormation meetings

were organised in our parishes to proide

communities with inormation on measures

aailable to adapt, and mitigate the eects o

climate change.

Approximately 200 people attended the

climate change meetings, while a urther 60

armers in Kayunga participated in training

course in apiary management.

Woodgate Agricultural

Co-Operatie is one o 16 local

seed production co-ops

established with the support o Sel Help

Arica in Ethiopia, in 2009.

Technical support, training and assistance

was proided to Woodgate’s 52 ounder

members, to enable them to establish a

commercial seed multiplication enterprise in

the rural Butajira area o Gurage District.

Members designated portions o their

armland to the production o basic wheat

seed alongside their traditional crops.

From oundation stock proided by Sel Help

Arica they multiplied the wheat seed, and

are now commercially distributing improed

quality seed to smallholder armers across the

region.

Membership o Woodgate Agricultural Co-

Op has grown to 80 members, and members

hae seen their annual earnings increase rom

an aerage o €220 annually, to more than

€560 last year.

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SoiL & waTEr conSErVaTion

proTEcTing harVESTS for ThE fUTUrE

Recent harests that hae been

three and our times greater than

in the past are tting reward or

the hard work inested in their land by a

community in Burkina Faso’s hot and arid

Central Plateau.

A settlement o little more than 800 people,

the smallholder armers o Sika illage hae

spent the past 18 months on a painstaking

and labour intensie eort to rehabilitate

their dry and dusty elds.

Employing a traditional zai hole ertilization

technique, and constructing a criss cross o

low stone bunds (walls) to preent erosion,

the community has to date succeeded in

rehabilitating oer 90 acres o their arm land.

Working in collaboration with Sel Help

Arica’s local partners PER (Association Projet

Ecologie et Reboisement), the community at

Sika report that their most recent harests o

sorghum, millet and beans rom the treated

land hae been three and our times greater

than the returns rom their other lands.

PER has proided training to armers in ma-

nure making and composting, the essential

ingredients o ‘zai’. The technique requires

the armers to dig thousands o shallow holes

in their eld and ll each with compost, be-

ore topping each o with grasses and straw.

The ertilized holes leach their nutrients back

into the soil, and also sere as shallow basins

to collect water during the rainy season.

Mother-o-e Sawadogo Lemoussa admits

that the work is both tiring and labour inten-

sie, but says that they hae little choice as

they need to produce crops rom their elds.

‘Eeryone here relies on arming, so we hae

to try to make our land as productie as pos-

sible.’

Her neighbour Garba Wango agrees, and

says that although it requires more eort, the

use o zai technology and composting gies

them an alternatie to chemical ertilizer,

which he says is only o short-term benet,

and is also an inestment that many small

scale armers cannot aord.Spreading manure into a zai hole, Sika, Burkina Faso

Restoring soil ertility

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New dam to helpthousands

A new pilot project to proide

clean drinking water and irrigation

or a community o oer 10,000

people in the hot dry Southern Red Sea

region o Eritrea, is set to start.

A collaboration between Sel Help Arica and

the Agricultural Promotion and Deelopment

unit o the Ministry o Agriculture, the

project will alleiate water shortages

or householders and semi-nomadiccommunities, and support the irrigation

needs o nomadic liestock and small scale

irrigated arming.

Situated on the ringes o the Danakil

Depression – the lowest point in Arica and

the continent’s hottest and driest region,

the project will construct a central rain-

haresting dam and reseroir, install 9km o

water pipelines, and establish o water points

or householders, and drinking troughs or

animals. 2,400 households across 21 illages

will be sericed by the scheme.

Amongst those who will benet rom the

scheme are oer 700 amilies who are semi-

nomadic pastoralists rom the isolated Aar

ethnic tribal group.

Farmers restore depleted orests

Fish arming boosts Malawi incomes

Communities in Kenya’s Rit valley

proince are being mobilized to

support an innoatie new

enironmental project that aims to re-estab-

lish commercial orestry in the region.

Under the scheme our multi-purpose tree

nurseries are being set up, a urther eight

school-based school tree nurseries are being

established, while 4,000 small-holder arm-

ers in Naiasha region are being supported

to replant orestry on sections o their land.

Four armers associations in the Elementaitaand Gilgil districts are being supported with

training in a range o tree planting and

orestry techniques, and will be charged with

oersight and longer term management o

the orestry work under the scheme, which

is being undertaken by Sel Help Arica in

collaboration with the Eburru Community

Forest Association (ECOFA).

In recent decades it is estimated that orest

coer in Kenya has allen to under 2%, as a

growing rural population depletes existing

woodlands.

The interentions will allow or the scaling

up o market led natural resource manage-

ment work, with arm communities beingencouraged to undertake commercially

ocused orestry planting, o ruit trees and

mixed woodlots.

A plentiul supply o ruit, sh and

egetables is the outcome or a small

Southern Malawian armers since they

embarked on an aqua-culture joint enture to

supplement their income.

The group members hae each excaated

small sh ponds on their arms, at Kampa-

sule illage in Kalembo, and are using the

aailable water to irrigate small ruit and

egetable plots. They are growing banana,

guaa, mango, sugar cane and assorted

egetables, close to their ponds, and recently

shared a diidend o oer €750 rom the sale

o 12,000 tilapia sh that they had reared in

their ponds.

With the added reenue, members hae

bought goats, built new homes, and pur-

chased plots o land to expand their arms.


LiVESTock DEVELopmEnT

SUpporTing animaL hUSbanDry

Moati Magombo has produced more

than 22 animals since he became

inoled in Sel Help Arica’s pig

breeding programme in Mabwera illage in

Masumbankhunda, Malawi.

A ather o two, Moati says that he has

used the proceeds rom the sale o animals

to carry out improements to his home, to

establish a small trading post where his wie

sells household goods, and to expand his

pens and other arm buildings. He recently

sold two o his herd and earned €310.

Aged 35 years, Moati Magombo says that

he is ‘now in the clear’ with the Liestock

Committee, haing returned six piglets to

the group – so that they can loan them to

other armers as starter pig rearing stock.

He is collecting pig manure and using it to

ertilise a backyard egetable garden at his

home, and is also using it to spread on his

maize eld, which recently yielded 40 50kg

bags o maize. ‘This was almost 100% more

than I had been producing when I didn’t

hae manure or ertiliser,’ he says.

Beekeepers Associations

established with the support o

Sel Help Arica hae opened a

retail outlet in Eritrea’s capital, to sell their

honey and other bee products.

The enterprise in Asmara city ollows the

establishment o a shop in the market town

o Dibarwa, and is part o an eort to

strengthen local markets or the sale o honey

and heighten awareness o beekeeping

nationally.

Sel Help Arica has been supporting

a National Beekeeping Deelopment

Programme in Eritrea or more than e

years, and in that time has supported

thousands o householders to become

inoled in beekeeping actiities.

In the past year the organisation has

supported beekeepers to set up members

associations in Adiquala, Emnihaili,

Mendeera and Dekemare sub-regions, and

acilitated training courses in management,

administration and organisational

deelopment or more than 500 members o

the our new associations. In that time oer

200 new bee colonies hae been distributed,

and nearly 70,000 orage shrubs and trees

planted to support the actiity.

New pens improve animal health

Pigs help maize yield in Malawi

Beekeepers shop opens in Asmara

Goat herds play a ital role in the

lies o many Arican subsistence

arm amilies – proiding them

with an additional source o income and

nutrition, and also an ‘insurance’ to be sold in

times o emergency.

Local partners o Sel Help Arica in Zambia

and Ghana are being supported with projects

that seek to improe the liing conditions o

liestock on small-scale Arican arms.

In Zambia eleated goat pens are being

promoted in Lusaka Proince, while in Ghana

a new design goat house is being deeloped

and promoted amongst herders in Bolga-

tanga region.

Louis Mwachiaba constructed an eleated

goat pen on his arm in Chiala illage in Zam-

bia more than eighteen months ago. Since

then he says that his goats hae produced

more milk and hae been healthier - a result

o being able to take shelter o the muddy

earth during the rainy

season. Manure can also

easily be collected.

In Ghana a dierent ap-

proach to achiee the same

objectie is underway in

Pelunga district, where

more than 400 armers

hae constructed improed

houses or their liestock.

Zobil Yinboka, a lead

armer in Pelungu who

has been demonstrating

the technology to other

armers, says that the new

house, which has a tiered

and sloped foor, allows the

manure to roll down into

a central pit rom where it

can be collected or use as

ertilizer.

New pigs boostlocal stock

More than 400 households in the

Kayunga area o Uganda are set to

benet rom the reintroduction this

summer o 45 improed breed boer buck

goats to improe local breeds.

The Boer bucks will be proided to local

households already inoled in goat rearing,

and will proide breeding serices across the

local community.

Within the rst year it is scheduled that 180

newly born kids can be ‘reoled’ to other

local households as part o a pass on scheme,thus increasing the blood line o local herds

within a short period o time.

Meanwhile, 24 households hae receied im-

proed breed sows in a bid to

improe the quality and

health o the pig popu-

lation in Kayunga.

Both pig and goat

breeders hae

receied training

in odder manage-

ment, in breeding

techniques, in disease

management and con-

trol, and in liestock

housing systems.

Louis Mwachiaba with his improved goat house in Zambia



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Former rugby international Dennis Hickie is pictured in Ethiopia recently.

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The Big Give

Sel Help Arica has been nominated as

a beneciary o the BBC Radio 4 Charity

Appeal. Radio 4 listeners donated more

than £1.4 million to 52 weekly charities

who took part in the appeal last year.

Organised through a Sunday broadcast on

Radio 4, Sel Help Arica will be the BBC

station’s chosen charity or a week, at a

date yet to be conrmed.

SELF Help Arica has again been selected to

participate in the UK’s ‘Big Gie Challenge

2010’, which last year allowed us to raise an

amazing £80,000 or our work.The rst step

o the Challenge is to raise our own Match-

ing Fund pot o £20,000 and we already hae

pledges or the ull amount! This will double

any donation made by supporters, trusts andthe general public on ‘The Big Gie’ website

in December. Following this we hae a antas-

tic opportunity to unlock additional bonus

unding rom an external sponsor, who will

double any additional public donations up to

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Rugby stars support Sel Help Arica

Irish charity lunch sold out

Changemakers ball in the US

‘Arica Rising’ documentary award

Journalist lives in Arican village

Former IFA President Padraig Walshe with Michael Lawlor and Frank Hemeryck o Combines4Charity are pictured

with Wubshet Berhanu, Ethiopian Director, and Kalongo Chitengi, Zambia Director o Sel Help Arica.

The Irish cereal armers who shattered a

world haresting record and netted nearly

one-third o a million euro or charity into the

bargain, are back in business with a bid to

raise thousands more or worthy causes.

The ‘Combines 4 Charity’ grain armers

attracted thousands o people to their spec-

tacle late last Summer, when they brought

together 175 working combine haresters in

a eld at the same time.

They are now aiming to do more or charity,

and are currently selling tickets or a Monster

Rafe o arm machinery, ehicles and other

great prizes to be held in County Meath on

October 24th next.

A treasure troe o prizes - including a John

Deere 6630 tractor, a Toyota Hilux crew cab

ehicle, a Toyota Corolla car and much more

- are on oer in the rafe, to be held at The

Knightsbrook Hotel in Trim, Co. Meath that

night.

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Two well-known rugby stars hae thrown

their support behind the work o Sel Help

Arica.

Flying winger and ormer British and Irish Lion

Denis Hickie has joined SHA as an ambas-

sador, and will specically support eorts to

raise awareness o the challenges resulting

rom climate change in sub-Saharan Arica.

The ormer Leinster star traeled recently to

Ethiopia, and said ollowing the trip that it

had opened his eyes to the challenges that

are acing armers and their amilies in Arica.

Meanwhile, British and Irish Lions rugby

captain Paul O’Connell lent his support to a

noel undraiser or Sel Help Arica, at the

recent National Ploughing Championships in

County Kildare. The Munster rugby legend

teamed up with ood critic Tom Doorley or

a cheese tasting challenge being organised

by the National Dairy Council o Ireland that

raised €3,000 or Sel Help Arica.

Sel Help Arica’s second Irish charity lunch in

Dublin on Saturday, Noember 27th.

The eent takes place at the popular Town

Bar & Grill on Kildare Street, and guest o

honour will be ormer rugby international

and new Sel Help Arica ambassador, Denis

Hickie. All tickets were snapped up in

record time. Supporters will hae lunch, be

entertained and hae a chance to win some

abulous prizes.

Like last year it is anticipated a great day will

be had by all.

Close to 400 US supporters are set to attend

our inaugural black-tie ball undraiser, to be

held in New York on Friday, Noember 12th

next. ‘The Change Makers Ball’ takes place

at Manhattan’s Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers

on the banks o the Hudson Rier, and will

be emceed by Bloomberg Tv host Margaret

Brennan.

Close to 30 tables hae already been sold

or the eent, which will be attended by

gures rom international business, sports,

diplomacy, publishing, philanthrophy and

deelopment. To nd out more contact any

o our Sel Help Arica oces.

A lm documentary that looked at Sel

Help Arica’s work to mobilize community

deelopment in Ethiopia has picked up a

prestigious media award.

‘Arica Rising’, a story o ‘how Aricans

are soling Arica’s problems themseles’was named the winner o the Millennium

Deelopment Goals (MDG) award at the

One World Media Awards in London, this

Summer.

Produced by Cloer Films or TG4, the lm

was shot in the Sodo region o Ethiopia oer

a period o more than eighteen months, in2007 and 2008.

‘A village in Arica’ is the title or a month-

long ‘new media’ project that Sel Help Arica

has embarked on to shed light on what daily

lie is like in a rural Arican community.

Young journalist Ciara Kenny traelled to

Zambia at the end o September, and on a

daily blog being hosted by ‘The Irish Times’

website, and also utilising Facebook, Twitter,

and other new media platorms, she is seek-

ing to proide a window into the world o

the community o Makwatata, in the east o

the country.

Armed with a solar recharging kit or her lap-

top, digital ideo camera and oice recorder,

Ciara is liing with illagers and participat-

ing in daily lie or this community o Ngoni

tribes-people until the end o October.

Ciara has traelled extensiely in Europe,

China, South-East Asia, and South and

Central America, and has written or Rough

Guides trael books since 2007.

The month-long assignment in Arica is being

undertaken in collaboration with The Irish

Times online, where you can ollow her blog.

US StreetestThousands o New Yorkers turned out on

Stone Street in downtown Manhattan in early

Summer and raised thousands o dollars to

support Sel Help Arica’s water deelopment

projects in West Arica.Organised by bar and

restaurant owners on Stone Street, the eent

attracted large numbers – with 20% o pro-

ceeds o business on the day being donated

to the cause. ‘StreetFest 2010’ was the ery

rst undraiser organised by Sel Help Arica

in the United States.

Proceeds raised rom the eent will go

towards the construction o wells, repair o

boreholes and establishment o a basic health

and sanitation education programme ormore than 15,000 in northern Togo.

One FoundationFollowing a year-long collaboration with Sel

Help Arica which saw prots rom the sale

o the ‘One vitamin Water’ range going to

support irrigated horticultural and egetable

gardens in Malawi, The One Foundation has

scaled up its support or Sel Help Arica’s

work in the southern Arican country.

One Foundation has committed to supporting

a programme o actiities in Kalembo District,

with prots rom the sale o a number o

their products to be inested in seed deelop-

ment, egetable production, and sanitation.

From mid-October the oundation’s ‘One

Toilet Roll’ and ‘One Soap’ will go on sale at

Sainsbury’s, one o the UK’s largest supermar-

ket chains, with prots rom the sale o these

products being inested in supporting Sel

Help Arica’s work. A delegation rom One

Foundation traelled to Malawi in the Spring

to see at rst hand the impact that theirinestment in our work was haing.

Lasting impact o legacy givingA small sum can make a big dierence’ is

the message that Sel Help Arica is issuing

to riends and supporters i they are consid-

ering writing a will.

‘Composing a will is a ery priate and ery

personal matter, but once your loed ones

and amily are taken care o you may want

to consider a git or a charity” says Busi-

ness Deelopment Manager Louise Rogan.

Sel Help Arica are happy to talk to anyone

in condence who may be looking or

guidance or adice on how they should

proceed to leae a git.

Alternatiely,

solicitors can adise clients on how they

might proceed to leae a sum to charity in

their will. In the past year Sel Help Arica

receied gits rom seeral supporters in

Ireland and the United Kingdom, these

legacies were spent across our programmes

and made a lasting dierence to many

peoples lies.

Tour D’AriqueSel-conessed ‘cycling noice’ Paddy Berkery

showed just what can be done when you

turn your mind to it, when he successully

completed one o the world’s best known

endurance rallies in support o Sel Help

Arica earlier this year. ‘I had hardly been up

on a bike beore I started, and was preparing

or exams at the end o last year so didn’t

een hae the opportunity to train’, admits

the 27 year old Dubliner, as he describes his

preparations or the grueling 12,000km ‘Tour

D’Arique’ cycle rom Cairo to Cape Town,

last Spring.

A son o ormer Irish Farmers Association

general secretary Michael Berkery, Paddy

threw himsel headlong into the challenge.

Paddy’s eorts raised oer €15,000 or Sel

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campaigning & aDVocacy

changing aTTiTUDES, opinionS anD poLiciES

Supporting smallholdersSel Help Arica is participating in a deelop-

ment agency consortium that is pressing to

ensure that the role o smallholder armers is

at the heart o the UK goernment’s uture

poerty eradication strategy or Arica.

The Arican Smallholder Farmers Group

(ASFG) articulated the case in aour o its ap-

proach in a report that was launched recently

at the Houses o Parliament in London.

‘Arica’s Smallholder Farmers: Approaches

that Work or viable Lielihoods’ presents

nine accounts o successul approaches rom

across Arica which hae increased access to

decision-making, assets, markets, science,

knowledge and technology or smallholder

armers.

The publication calls on the Goernment to

make a commitment to increase the amount

o aid or Arican smallholders, and to ocus

agricultural aid allocations on areas with

greatest potential to support smallholder

armers.

Following the publication o the report, Sel

Help Arica was represented on a delegation

that met with Stephen O’Brien, the UK parlia-

mentary undersecretary o state or interna-

tional deelopment, to discuss the report’s

recommendations.

Recently published smallholder armers’ report

On the Frontline o Climate ChangeA publication that seeks to tell the stories

o rural Aricans at the rontline o climate

change, was launched and circulated in

adance o the UN’s Copenhagen Summit,

late last year.

Sel Help Arica collaborated with e other

international NGOs on the report – ‘Climate

Frontline Arica’, which was circulated to

campaigners, politicians and policy adisers

in adance o the UN’s meeting.

Ireland’s Minister or the Enironment John

Gormley presided at a ormal launch in

Dublin, while copies o the report were

circulated to all members o the EU’s

Enironment Committee, ollowing a launch

o the document at the EU in Brussels.

A launch in London was attended by

infuential climate change campaigner

Saleemul Huq, who is sering head o the

Climate Change Group at the International

Institute or Enironment and Deelopment.

New York Conerence on HungerSel Help Arica and Concern Worldwide

co-hosted a special conerence on Ireland’s

role in ghting hunger in the 21st century,

in New York, last Summer.

The eent, ‘Hunger in the 21st Century :

Ireland and the Fight against Famine’ was

addressed by President Mary McAleese, and

was also attended by the ormer prime min-

ister o New Zealand Helen Clark, who is the

current administrator o the United Nations

Deelopment Fund.

Sel Help Arica’s Zambian country direc-

tor Kalongo Chitengi spoke on the role o

women in poerty eradication and amine

preention at the eent, which was moder-

ated by Roger Thurow, the celebrated

American author o ‘Enough: Why the

world’s poor stare in an age o plenty’.

TwentyFiteen

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Sel Help Arica has published the second in

a series o books that allow young people

to express their iews on the Millennium

Deelopment Goals (MDGs).

Transition year students rom St. Wolstan’s

College in Kildare, Ireland, led the project,

and attracted contributions rom students

across Ireland, the UK, and rom seeral

Arican countries, as well as the iews ogures in public lie.

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A beekeeping deelopment association being

supported by Sel Help Arica in Burkina Faso

has successully lobbied or the inclusion o

apiculture in the armoury o poerty reduc-

tion strategies or one o the West Arican

country’s poorest regions.

Representaties o the Wend Yam Federation

made a successul case or including bee-

keeping amongst the priority areas, during

a regional reiew o poerty reduction strate-

gies or Burkina Faso’s hot and dry Central

Plateau region.

“The decision to include beekeeping –

alongside agriculture, liestock, enironment,

education, health, tourism, energy, drinking

water and youth employment in the strategy

is good news. It will certainly enable us to

mobilize more resources and get more people

inoled in beekeeping in the Central Plateau

region, and is an important step in the uture

deelopment o our actiities’, said Wend

Yam’s Jean Baptiste Sawadogo. Sel Help

Arica has been collaborating with the Wend

Yam Federation or the past three years.



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