2015 Annual Report and Financial Statement

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST Reg. Charity No: 1157822 2015 ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST (ADT) Contents: Table of content 2 Message from Chair and Executive Director 3 Structure, governance and management 4 Achievements and performance: 5 • Our strategy 5 Protecting life and dignity: 6 Empowering Communities: 7 • Improving food security: 7 • Enterprise projects for women: 7 • Improving Health Services: 7 • Promoting Education: 7 Campaigning for change: 9 • Eradicating global hunger and poverty: 9 • Mental health services in Kashmir: 9 • Protecting children’s rights: 9 Support for our programmes: 10 • Fundraising and volunteering in the UK: 10 Our key partners: 10 Income and expenditure: 11 • Where the money we spent went: 11 • Financial review: 12 • Charitable expenditure: 12 • Fundraising: 12 • Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of African Development Trust (ADT): 13 • African Development Trust (ADT) Statement of Financial Activities and Income and Expenditure: 14 • Financial Statement: 15 2 Message from Chair and Executive Director Assalamu Allaikum, Peace be upon you all, In 2015, African Development Trust (ADT) served as many people as usual in poverty relief. This past year ADT adopted to bring about lasting change in new and innovative ways, and to minimise the impact disruption in disaster areas in Africa. As you will read in this report, we are continuously pushing ourselves to strengthen the impact and effectiveness of our work. The humanitarian needs that continues to unfold in particularly in Somalia every year remains our greatest challenge. Working deep inside Southern Somalia, Sierra Leone, Djibouti and Eritrea, our emergency aid reached more than 77,000 people in these four countries. Our orphan welfare project in Somalia reached 345, fully sponsored. The devastation caused by recurrent drought and violence in Somalia caused us to send out more aid to Somalia. In 2015, we aligned more of our international programmes to an integrated sustainable development model. We also delivered innovative programmes that included tackling poverty and child labour and providing access to education for orphans, provision of wheelchairs for disabled people and skill and human rights training to vulnerable young women and men in Somalia. The financial statements included within this annual report include the income, expenditure, assets and liabilities of the UK registered charity African Development Trust (ADT). It does not reflect the full extent of the activities of African Development Trust (ADT). Despite the decrease of income compared the year before, ADT managed to discharge its responsibilities and served the poor in Africa. This helped to cement African Development Trust (ADT)’s place as one of the impactful organisation in Africa. Beyond all of this, we were also pleased to note growth in many of our projects in 2015. Worthy to note is helping the poor with disability with wheelchairs and human rights and peace building for youth, whose trainees number were over 30 youths. We expect this trend to continue. We remain mindful of our humble beginnings and our values, rooted in the teachings of the humanity and ICRC Code of Conduct that calls us to restore a dignity that God gave to the children of Adam. We thank our dedicated staff, our selfless volunteers for all their efforts, our generous donors for their on-going support, and to all those with whom we worked in partnership to reduce poverty and suffering in Africa. Ali Ahmed Wardere Trustee Chairman 3 Structure, governance and management • Board of Trustees Company directors – also known as trustees - make up our Board of Trustees, which directs and controls the organisation. The Board of Trustees sets our future aims and priorities, focussing on strategic planning and • Key personnel governance, and also evaluates our performance and progress The MD is accountable to the in our work in poverty relief Board of Trustees and – along and suffering. with other senior staff – is responsible for our day-to-day The Board of Trustees appraises management. The MD chairs the the Executive management team Management Team (staff). Staff – made up of the Managing and volunteers make sure that the Director (MD) and Board • Welcoming and policies laid down by the Board of Directors. Trustees make training trustees of Trustees are implemented, and appointments to these positions they also support the work of as well as dismissals. The Board We support new trustees in other staff and volunteers. of Trustees also makes sure understanding the Board’s that we satisfy the regulatory role, and make sure they have • Governing Document requirements on us as a charity, the information that they need and works with key stakeholders. to carry out their duties. This African Development Trust (ADT) includes giving them a full refers to the charity registered • Recruiting and overview of our strategic and with the Charity Commission appointing of trustees operational functions, as well of England and Wales with a governing document known as All of our trustees are volunteers, as a comprehensive welcome Article of Association dated on chosen because they have pack which includes a copy of 14th day of February 2014. the diverse range of skills, the Memorandum and Articles ADT’s sole objects are ‘helping knowledge and experience of Association, the financial poor, sick and needy’. that we need to respond to the statements, board minutes challenges of today. Stakeholders and the Charity Commission and partners may nominate guidance ‘The Essential Trustee’, trustee(s), and sometimes we will as well as recent publications. make a personal approach to Our MD keeps trustees up- potential candidates. to-date about changes in regulatory standards and training possibilities, and we continually evaluate the Board’s effectiveness. We provide the Board of Trustees with regular reports on our performance, as well as our annual financial reports, and plans and budgets. The Board of Trustees also approves relevant new policies and procedures. 4 • Objectives and activities Achievements and The overarching aim of African Development Trust (ADT) is to performance: provide relief of poverty in any part of the world. Inspired by value Our strategy of humanity, we envisage a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as Our ambitious Global Strategy one to the suffering of others. We aim to do this through our relief, 2011-15 sets out how we are development and advocacy work with vulnerable communities putting our faith into action to around the world - regardless of race, political affiliation, gender or secure the greatest possible belief and without expecting anything in return. positive impact on the people we serve. We are guided by the Our mission is to mobilise resources, build partnerships and develop timeless values and teachings of local capacity, as we work to: Humanity, with challenging aims • Enable communities to mitigate the effect of disasters, prepare designed to facilitate real social for their occurrence and respond by providing relief, protection and change. In addition, we are also recovery. fulfilling a set of core promises throughout our work: • Promote integrated development and environmental custodianship with a focus on sustainable livelihoods. • Strengthening local capacity: • Support the marginalised and vulnerable to voice their needs and address the root causes of poverty. We empower communities to manage their own affairs, and develop the capacity of civil society itself. • Protecting children: We mainstream child protection and ensure that our programmes are child-focussed. • Gender sensitivity: We believe that gender equality benefits humanitarianism and we develop distinctive, practical approaches to address the key issues that are affecting women in our impact areas. • Protecting the environment: We promote climate change adaptation as well as initiatives to safeguard the environment from further harm. As we approach the end of our current strategy, this Annual Report reflects on our progress in achieving our aims. 5 Aim one: Protecting life Protecting life and dignity and dignity: For around a decade, African Development Trust (ADT) Responding to disasters and has provided a lifeline for reducing their impact. communities impacted by African Development Trust disasters. In 2015, major (ADT) has been responding to emergency programmes included emergencies for a decade and delivering life-saving aid to more every year, we increase the work than 77,000 people inside we do to protect those living in conflict and drought affected high-risk areas. In 2015, we people in Somalia, Kenya, continued to provide a lifeline for Eritrea Djibouti and Sierra Leone. vulnerable communities affected Our emergency teams also by disaster and poverty in Africa. provided much-needed food Responding to disasters and and water to more than 16,000 reducing their impact. people in the four countries. Somalia: As drought and In addition, we continued to violent conflict in Somalia raged empower vulnerable communities for decades and decades, to protect themselves from the we continued to provide a impact of disasters. humanitarian lifeline for those suffering in one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Aim three: Aim two: Working deep inside southern Campaigning for change Empowering communities Somalia, we delivered essential We continued to drive positive items such as food and non food As we increased

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