Self Help Africa
4th Floor, Joyce´s Court, 38 Talbot Street
Dublin 1; D01 C861
Irlande
Personne de contact: George Jacob
+353 (0)1 677 8880
info@selfhelpafrica.org
george.jacob@selfhelpafrica.org
https://selfhelpafrica.org/
https://www.facebook.com/SelfHelpAfrica
Les Thèmes
- Projet d'environnement
- Politique + projet d'éducation
- Organisation d'aide
- Bénévoles sont les bienvenus.
Qui sommes-nous
Self Help Africa is a international development agency working to eradicate hunger and poverty in rural Africa. Self Help Africa is the result of a merger in 2008 between two like-minded organisations, Self Help Development International from Ireland and the UK’s Harvest Help. Both organisations were initially founded in the mid-1980s in respond to food security crises in sub-Saharan Africa. In July 2014, Self Help Africa merged with Gorta, Ireland’s oldest established NGO. Over the next 12 months, we have set a target of working with more than 500,000 rural farming families (3 million people).
Self Help Africa works in nine core African countries, tackling poverty and improving the lives of local communities. The organisation works both with its own African staff, and through local partners to undertake a range of integrated development programmes amongst rural communities.
Our vision is for sustainable livelihoods and healthy lives for all in a changing climate
Our mission is to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change
We achieve this through community-led, market-based and enterprise focused approaches to agricultural development, ensuring that people with have access to: Nutritious food; Decent incomes and employment ; Clean water and basic services and all while sustaining natural resources.
Our aim is to transition communities out of long-term poverty through work that gives them greater control over their futures and provides a better quality of life. The main focus of our work is in sub-Saharan Africa, where global hunger and poverty is most acute. We believe that equitable economic development is key to ending poverty.
Our core areas of focus are:
• Sustainable landscapes, resilient food systems and healthy communities.
• Sustainable businesses, decent employment and thriving economies.
• Crisis response and resilience.
• System strengthening and an enabling policy environment.
Our work
• Rural enterprise development is at the core of our work. Linking small scale farmers, cooperatives and producer groups to the market is key to improving 'the bottom line'.
• Gender: African women produce up to 80% of the food on small scale farms yet receive just a fraction of the available support. Gender inequality is a major obstacle to improved outcomes. We are working to level that playing field.
• Climate change: As farming depends on rainfall, a major part of our work is helping vulnerable communities adapt to climate change.
• Agriculture & nutrition: It's not just the quantity of food but also the quality of food being produced that is important. A balanced diversified diet helps African families escape hunger and poverty.
• Micro finance: Access to affordable micro-financeis vital if smallholders are to invest in developing their farming businesses.
• Cooperatives: By working together in farmer cooperatives and producer groups, small scale farmers can access better prices for their crops. Together is usually better.
• Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): Contributing to universal, sustainable WASH services and practices in communities and public institutions, leading to healthy lives and contributing to the targets of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (ensuring access to water and sanitation for all); Reinforcing and creating sustainable livelihoods from WASH value chains and using WASH ‘outputs’ as inputs for sustainable agriculture; Strengthening communities’ resilience to a changing climate and other shocks and disasters, and responding to those disasters where appropriate and needed
• Tree planting: Trees are a vital resource for rural poor communities in Africa. They provide shade and shelter, help to prevent soil erosion, restore degraded land, and can be a valuable source of food and nutrition. tackling poverty and improving the lives of local communities.
• Irish Aid also enables Self Help Africa to implement a Development Education programme that reaches more than 100 post-primary schools, and is currently supporting teacher training, and introducing Development Education to the community and adult sectors.
For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.