AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Reg. 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 • and 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 positive items such as food and non food As we increased our focus change and social justice for items to help 33,000 people on integrated sustainable people in Africa in 2015. and also over 16,000 vulnerable development in 2015, we We participated in mobilising people also benefited from improved the lives of some of communities to call for action African Development Trust (ADT) the poorest people in Africa. on world hunger. In addition, program of WASH. In addition, Communities benefitted we worked with vulnerable ADT has supported 630 HHs from enhanced access to communities across east Africa of Somali returnees from Yemen essential services including region to achieve positive change and Yemeni refugees who fled to healthcare, water, sanitation, on key issues including mental Puntland with food supplies, and and education. We increased health and child protection. emergency health services. food security in Somalia by enabling communities to develop sustainable livelihoods that protect natural resources. Women headed households received income support to help themselves and educate their children.

6 Kenya: Recurrent drought raged the north eastern part of Kenya almost every year. ADT continued to provide relief food to those affected in north-eastern part of the country. To protect life and dignity ADT has provided relief food to over 24,350 people in Mandera and Wajir districts in Kenya. Djibouti: Recurrent drought raged Djibouti and neighbouring countries every year. ADT continued to provide relief food to those affected particularly Somalis and Ethiopian refugees in camps in Djibouti. ADT program has provided relief food to over 10,200 people in El-Ade camp in Djibouti. Empowering

Eritrea: The regime in Eritrea is totalitarian controlling everything Communities: and banned Aid agencies to operate in the country. This Promoting development and exacerbated the emergency situation in the country where many sustainable livelihoods poor families are left alone. ADT in collaboration with our local partners continued to provide relief food to those affected. ADT Every year, our development program has provided relief food to over 9,500 people in Asmara. programmes around African continent help poor communities Sierra Leone: Recurrent drought and Ebola which raged the to improve their lives. Our country made many people in destitution. ADT continued to provide sustainable development projects relief food to those affected in the country. To protect life and dignity give people the opportunity to ADT has provided relief food to over 1,350 people in Free Town. lift themselves out of thirsty and poverty through improving their livelihoods and giving them access to better essential services. • Improving food security: Africa is one of the world’s poorest continents due to conflicts, corruption and poor governance; we are reducing dependency on humanitarian aid by improving food security. In Somalia we support and sponsor 345 orphans whom we provide regular income support to their families every month. Similarly, our Widow Food Parcel Project supports more than 400 HHs every year. In addition, ADT is part of Feed Our World (FOW) led by Penny Appeal International where ADT implements in Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea every year. ADT‘s FOW programs supports 360 HHs or 2,160 people in the three countries. Furthermore, many families benefited from our seasonal and ritual projects such Qurbani, Iftar and fitr. 7 • Training youth on • Promotion sport in poor Human Rights: communities in Somalia Every person is entitled to certain Sport is one of the power full fundamental rights, simply by the tools that contribute in unity, fact of being human. These are peace building and communities called “human rights,” rather than cohesions. To encourage a privilege, which can be taken youngsters in IDP camps in away at someone’s whim. Every Somalia to participate in person is entitled to these certain sport, ADT supported 5 teams • Promoting Education: rights—simply by the fact that they in IDP camps and schools in are a human being. To promote Given, situation in Somalia it is Mogadishu with quality sport human rights, peace building very difficult, poor and struggling T-shirts donated by our donors in and protect vulnerable youth from families - particularly those lost UK. The support has motivated extremist ADT in collaboration the father or mother- to send their the teams in the city where we with the UNSOM Human Rights children to school. Under the have now greater demands for office in Somalia have established motto education is the only way similar support. youth cluster of 28 groups who out of poverty, ADT sponsored • Empowering poor and are now part of the national 345 orphans in Somalia who all disabled people election monitoring system. ADT of them go to schools. The fruits of and UNSOM have trained 33 the project are feasible now where The number of disabled people of these youth groups on human the first orphans are successfully is in surge in Somalia due to rights and peace building. finishing secondary schools. endless political violence in the country. These disabled people are poor and neglected living in abandoned government buildings. Most of these disabled people beg for their life and get sporadic hand outs from charities and Diaspora groups. Witnessed their poor situation, ADT has donated 33 new wheel chairs to those live in Martini hospital. This support will enable them to move out of the hospital to reach out people and put forward their problems and cases to the concerned bodies.

8 Campaigning for change: A force for social justice We work to tackle the root causes of poverty and suffering in Africa, in accordance with the prophetic example of speaking out against injustice. This year, our challenging advocacy and campaigning efforts gave vulnerable and marginalised communities a voice, and were an active force for positive change. • Eradicating global hunger and poverty We threw our weight behind a global day of action on hunger, delivered as part of our work through the ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ partnership. We participated to mobilise communities in Somalia, Kenya and the UK to lobby for action to address this global food crisis, poverty and suffering of the poor in which over 200 children die from malnutrition every hour. The UK government committed to spending on life-changing aid the countries in the region. • WHSummit Global Consultation: The United Nations Secretary-General called for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 23 and 24 May 2016. As part of the consultation process, ADT has actively participated in the World Humanitarian Summit (WHSUMMIT) global consultation which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 14 to 16 October 2015. The conference which ADT was represented by the Managing Director highlighted five key action areas of dignity, safety, resilience, partnerships and finance. The conference brought together 1,201 participants from 153 countries, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and organisations.

• Protecting children’s rights Somalia is one of the most dangerous places to live in particularly children. We advocate for the welfare of children from hazardous labour and abuse in Somalia. Here, poverty and violence has pushed many children to destitution, out of school and labour, with risks to their physical and mental development. Our orphan welfare project enabled scores of children to escape dangerous labour and abuses. Through the scheme of sponsorship and income support to the families, they accessed education, as well as support to set up alternative ways of earning a living. 9 Support for our programmes: Working hard to raise funds for humanitarian programmes

Fundraising and volunteering in the UK 2015 was a busy and productive year for African Development Trust (ADT) in the United Kingdom. We focused on raising funds for a number of emergencies, drought and water shortages in Africa, Sierra Leone and Yemeni refugees in Puntland which affected thousands of people. Volunteers are at the heart of our work, sacrificing their time, finances and energy. This year, they held collections in many mosques, hosted Iftar dinners throughout Ramadan, and organised several bazaars and family fun days. At African Development Trust (ADT), we believe that everyone can be a change-maker. Our UK-based campaigning and advocacy work in 2015 included calling on supporters to lobby and urge tackling of hunger poverty and emergencies in Africa. African Development Trust (ADT) supported the initiative ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ of UK charity organisations – a movement which pushed wealthier governments to change the policies that are keeping almost one billion people hungry around the world.

Our key partners:

10 Income and expenditure

Sources of Fund:

Where the money we spent went

11 Financial review Total income from resources of £145,820 reached the accounts of African Development Trust (ADT) in 2015. Despite the decrease of income reaching African Development Trust (ADT), it was a successful financial year for African Development Trust (ADT). We saw significant increase of income reaching African Development Trust (ADT) directly from donor organisations. We expect this trend to continue, especially as more of fund raising activities will be applied, in the areas where the work matters most.

Charitable expenditure Despite this, we continued to reach those who needed our help. Our charitable expenditure was at 116 per cent of our funding base (£145,820). Empowering Communities and Protecting Life and Dignity (emergency) programmes continues to be where we use the greatest proportions of funds, representing approximately 40 per cent and 30 Percent respectively of total fund expenditure. Continuing to support these vital programmes, alongside our work to care for orphaned and vulnerable children as well as our sustainable livelihoods programmes was very important.

Fundraising Voluntary income - which includes regular giving, campaign and appeal income - decreased slightly. This is a result of lower-profile fund raising activities and emrgencies in east Africa as compared to last year, and the absence of aid match from the donors. However, throughout the challenging economic climate, our UK individual donors donated even more generously. This made voluntary income 20 per cent of our total income for the year.

12 INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST (ADT)

13 AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST (ADT) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES AND INCOME AND EXPENDITURE (for the year ended 21st March 2016)

14 Financial Statement (as at 21st March 2016)

15 AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST 8A Rock Street, London, N4 2DN. Tel: 02073543355. Email: [email protected] www.africandt.org Reg. Charity No: 1157822