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KENYA selfhelpafrica.org 2019 Implementing Programme Donor Total Budget Time Frame Programme Area Partner Agri-FI Kenya Challenge European Commission € 24,434,796 2018 Imani Development Ltd Nationwide, with a focus 01 Fund (IDL) on arid and semi-arid 2022 lands Cassava Aggregation - European Commission € 7,517,496 2016 UCRC (Ugunja Coastal and Western 02 Supporting Smallholder Community Resource Regions Agriculture and Value 2022 Centre), Ustadi Addition Foundation, RhEAL Solutions, Rafiki Alice Omutse cassava farmer in Teso South, Microfinance Bank, and 2019 Busia, Kenya. Khadija Kuroi, Machanga, Kenya. Khadija Kuroi, TruTrade Water for Kiptulwa The Rotary Foundation € 86,702 2017 Direct implementation Keringet, Kiptulwa 03 School and Community, elf Help Africa in Kenya works with smallholder SHA works with smallholder farmers, farmer groups and Keringet 2019 PROGRAMMES KENYA farmers to move them from subsistence to associations across the country, including in the arid and Scommercialisationmalawi through a range of projects semi-arid areas to address food security and nutrition - from supporting those in extreme poverty, to assisting challenges, and link farmers to markets through a farming 04 Youth Empowerment in Designer Group € 59,404 2018 Direct implementation Kisumu zambia Kisumu enterprise development and business partnerships. as a business approach. 2019 burkinafaso Baringo Resilience European Commission € 5,500,000 2019 Farming Systems Kenya Tiaty, Baringo North and ghana 05 Initiative: Nurturing and the Sustainable Mogotio sub-counties in Greater Opportunity 2024 Agricultural Information Baringo County KENYAkenya (BARINGO) Initiative togo SOUTH PROJECT KEY SUDAN PROJECT KEY AGRI-FI Challenge Fund ETHIOPIA Scaling up RuSACCOs Lake Turkana, Cassava Aggregation - Supporting (Lake Rudolf) Beatrice Abukayot and her son at her Smallholder Agriculture & Value ERITREA farm in Teso South, Busia, Kenya. BuildingAddition Opportunities through Seed Enterprise Transformation Gondar Water for Kiptulwa School and FeedCommunity the Future Keringet DairyYouth for Development Empowerment in Kisumu UGANDA StrongerBARINGO Together Addis Ababa SOMALIA Climate-Smart Agriculture SOMALILAND Extensive Agriculture and Savanna Capacity Building of Farmer Butajira TrainingIntensive Centers Agriculture Mt. Kenya Nakuru Forest, Rainforest, Swamp ETHIOPIA Barren Extensive Agriculture and Savanna KENYA Forest, Rainforest, Swamp Nairobi Barren Desert SOMALIA KENYA Beatrice Abukayot at her farm in Mt. Kilimanjaro Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018. TANZANIA 2 3 AGRI-FI KENYA CHALLENGE FUND CASSAVA AGGREGATION - 01 02 SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE AND VALUE ADDITION Objective: To improve integration of smallholder farmers/pastoralists Objective: To increase food and nutrition security, employment and income among in climate-smart value chains. 28,000 farming households. gri-FI Kenya Challenge Fund is a €24 millon five- Self Help Africa is collaborating with Imani Development, assava is increasingly promoted by the government The project is also addressing capacity gaps among cassava year agri-business support programme that is a private economic development consultancy, focusing of Kenya due to its multiple uses as flour, starch, farmers, around knowledge of best-practice cassava Apart of the European Union’s Agriculture Financing on three specific thematic areas: Cand livestock feed, and its ability to provide food production. Self Help Africa and the Ministry of Agriculture, Initiative programme. throughout the year. However, the cassava sector remains Livestock and Fisheries, using the lead farmer and Farmer • Climate-smart agricultural inputs largely underdeveloped, and significant support is required Field School approaches, are training lead farmers to • Agri-processing and aggregation It supports productive, adapted and market-integrated to enable smallholder farmers to increase their incomes by disseminate trainings to 28,000 smallholders (at least 60% • Nutrition smallholder agriculture, including a contribution to the Africa capitalising upon growing demand. women), organised into business groups. Farmers are being trained on good agricultural practices and climate-smart Investment Facility. The funded projects are required to support businesses in a To this end, Self Help Africa is leading a five-year programme, agriculture and farming as a business - including farm and wide variety of undertakings, including farmer training on The objective of the project is to increase the capacity of funded primarily by the European Union, to strengthen the market planning, enterprise profitability, quality standards, climate adaptation, capacity development of cooperatives, KENYA PROGRAMMES KENYA 100,000 smallholder farmers/pastoralists to practice competitiveness of the cassava value chain in Kenya. Building aggregation, post-harvest management and value addition. PROGRAMMES KENYA equipment investments, improving quality standards, environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture as on previous work funded by the Walmart Foundation and Irish participatory research and marketing and branding investments, a business in inclusive value chains. Aid, which reached 12,000 households, the current project In line with the programme’s value chain approach, Self Help among others. scales this to 28,000 farmers (including 60% women) in the Africa is investing in the development of cooperatives, which Over five years (2018-2022), Agri-FI will assist smallholder Western, Nyanza, Eastern and Coastal regions of Kenya. The enable farmers to bulk their produce, reduce input costs and The Agri-FI project seeks to explore and address some of the households to move from subsistence farming to a more programme is being implemented with local NGOs Ugunja provide marketing and market linkages. The cooperatives barriers to women’s participation, together with the question business-oriented approach. Community Resource Centre (UCRC), RhEAL Solutions and are also linked to financial institutions, in particular Rafiki of access and control of resources. It provides training both to USTADI, TruTrade, and Rafiki Microfinance Bank. Microfinance Bank, who provide working capital and support farmers’ organisations and to community-based organisations. There will be a focus on: further expansion. The programme has also supported Rafiki This project - Cassava Aggregation: Supporting Microfinance Bank to develop suitable loan products for the Agri-FI is backed by contributions from international, public, • Promoting environmentally sustainable farming practices; Smallholder Agriculture and Value Addition - is facilitating different actors along the cassava value chain. private and civil society interests. The Challenge Fund • Participation of groups that are often excluded, including the availability of quality-declared cassava planting is financed by the European Commission (90%), and by women and rural youth. They will have opportunities material, working with the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock SlovakAid and Self Help Africa (10%). to participate, and profit from doing business across Research Organization (KALRO) to promote farmer • 28,000 households the value chain through input supply, production, production of quality cassava stems. As part of a blended financing model, the programme processing, aggregation, marketing and retail. (16,800 women, 11,200 men) supports Challenge Fund applicants to leverage investment SHA is training seed producers on stem production, soil fertility, from European Investment Bank (EIB) partner institutions. At the heart of Agri-FI is an €18 million Challenge Fund field management, pest and disease control, harvesting and which will be invested in supporting enterprise post-harvest handling, processing and storage. development projects. • 100,000 total direct beneficiaries The Fund awards grants that need to be matched by the Pasiliano Omaseti , North Teso, Busia, Kenya. applicants, to support agri-businesses, NGOs and • 10,000 net equivalent jobs created other entities to use market-based approaches to tackle particular development challenges. • 50 agri-businesses supported The primary challenge is to increase the integration of small- (to increase turnover by at least 25%) scale farmers and semi-nomadic pastoralists, who are • 15 trade associations supported frequently excluded from agri-value chains. Business THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: models have smallholders as suppliers of agri-products • 5,600 net equivalent jobs created or customers requiring inputs, finance and equipment. • 23,800 cassava farmers linked to mar- THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: ket opportunities • 100,000 smallholders/pastoralists integrated in • 70% increase in smallholder/pastoralist production • 100 aggregation centres supported various agricultural value chains • At least 20,000 hectares under climate-smart • Turnover increase of at least 25% for at least 50 land management practices • Building capacity of 14 micro, small and agri-enterprises medium enterprises and cooperatives • 15 trade associations strengthened • 10,000 jobs created 4 • 600,000 livelihoods transformed 5 Agnes Amelia Awoch, farmer in Lele Village, West Kisumu, Countu Kisumu, Kenya. Richard Ngerich (father), in Kyogong , Bomet County, Kenya. KENYA PROGRAMMES KENYA KERINGET COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT BARINGO RESILIENCE INITIATIVE: NURTURING PROGRAMMES KENYA 03 PROJECT 04 YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN KISUMU 05 GREATER OPPORTUNITY Objective: To improve access of rural Objective: To increase access to Objective: