Contact

infouk@selfhelpafrica.net Self Help Africa - UK Second Floor, Westgate House,Dickens Court, Hills Lane, Shrewsbury, SY1 1QU Tel. +44 (0) 1743 277170 Self Help Africa - Ireland Kingsbridge House, 17-22 Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, Co. Dublin, Ireland Tel. +353 (0) 578694034 Self Help Africa Inc. 41 Union Square West, Suite 631 New York, NY 10003, USA Tel. +1 212 206 0847

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Description

Self Help Africa works with rural communities to help them improve their farms and their livelihoods. Our mission is to empower rural Africa to achieve economic independence - and on a continent where up to 75% of people rely on small-scale agriculture for their survival, we believe that it is only by tackling the challenges faced by rural farming communities that real and sustained economic progress can be made across sub-Saharan Africa. For more than 25 years, Self Help Africa has sought to strengthen agricultural systems, improve access to services and inputs, and provide rural African communities with the opportunities to market and sell their produce. Self Help Africa works with local staff and partners in nine countries, supporting communities to grow more food, diversify their farm production, develop new off-farm enterprise, and sell their surpluses. We support rural micro-finance programmes, assist producers to organise into farmers associations and co-operatives, enable farm families to access markets and add value to their produce, and promote low-cost sustainable solutions to the management of natural resources, to community adaption to a changing climate, and to the challenges of gender inequality. Self Help Africa is also committed to advocating in support of the interests of African smallholder farmers, to ensure that there is a long-term commitment to aid and investment, to ensure the sustainable development of agriculture and food production in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Self Help Africa was formed in 2008 from a merger between two like-minded charities: UK NGO Harvest Help and Irish agency Self Help Development International. Both charities were founded in mid-1980s in response to the catastrophic Ethiopian famine and the droughts that plagued many central African countries.

IATI identifier

IE-CHY-6663

Implementation Schedule

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Organisations / agencies covered

Self Help Africa Self Help Africa is an international charity registered in Ireland and the United Kingdom Registered charity number: 6663 (Ireland), and 298830 (UK). Self Help Africa is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organisation in the United States. Data on the Self Help Africa's social enterprise - Partner Africa (<10% of turnover) is missing. Programme administration and support projects are excluded (<10% of turnover)

Timeliness of Data

Data on project and programme descriptions including total budgets will be updated quarterly from Q3 2012. Data will be published 3 months in arrears. Financial information - 2011 data uploaded once annual accounts are published. Quarterly publishing from Jan 2013 at the latest. Data will be published 3 months in arrears.

Frequency of publication

Not specified

Frequency of publication (extra comments)

Data will be refreshed Quarterly in January, April, July, October.

Units of Aid

Projects / Programmes

Segmentation of Published Data

No segmentation. Data covers all operations in Africa in a single data file.

Data Definitions and References

None available

Field Exclusions

Planning to use the following fields Minimum level of disclosure Activity number Title Description Funding organisation or Donor Country or Region Incoming source of funds Commitment/ Total project value Expenditure date and value (if applicable) Disbursement date and value (if applicable) Project status Project documents Project budget Preferred additional level of disclosure Other participating organisations Sector Start date End date Contact details Website for project Organisation documents Income date and value

Record Exclusions

The following are the exclusions that Self Help Africa will apply. - Where commercial advantage may be at risk if early stage programme ideas are disclosed publication will be delayed, until the details are not deem commercially sensitive. - Where a donor has requested anonymity the donor's name will be excluded. - Details of programmes will not be published if doing so presents a significant risk to partner organisations or staff involved.

Thresholds

Activities and transactions with a value below EUR 1,000 are not published

Other Constraints

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Data Quality

Operational data - changes will occur as records are updated each quarter

User Interface

Existing

User Interface Website

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