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Self Help Africa is an international charity that promotes and implements long-term rural development projects in Africa. Following a merger with Gorta in July 2014 the organisation will operate in Ireland as Gorta-Self Help Africa. The organisation works with rural communities in ten African countries – supporting farm families to grow more and earn more from their produce. Self Help Africa provides training and technical support to assist households to produce more food, diversify their crops and incomes, and access markets for their surplus produce.〔( "Africa can cultivate its salvation" ) The Sunday Times (15.08.11)〕 The agency also helps rural communities to access micro-finance services, and supports sustainable agricultural solutions that enable rural farmers to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change.〔("They haven't caused the problem, yet they are suffering" ) ''The Irish Times'' (1.12.2011)〕 Enterprise development, value-added production, on and off farm diversification, programmes that promote community-seed production, innovation and working with women farmers in Africa are also features of the organisation's development work. Self Help Africa works with local partners across its African programmes to support the provision of good quality local seed and planting materials. This work includes assistance to local communities to multiply their own seed,〔( "Sustaining seed production in Africa" ) New Agriculturist May 2012〕 and provision of support for rural groups so that they can get certification for the seed that they produce.〔( "Certifying seed in Zambia's poorest province" ) ''New Agriculturist'', September 2009.〕 Self Help Africa is a recipient of funding from Irish Aid, the European Commission, US AID, the United Kingdom Department of Foreign and Overseas Development (DFID), of variety of trusts, foundations, other institutional donors, and the general public. The agency has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, UK offices in Shrewsbury, London and an American office in New York. ==Programmes in Africa == Self Help Africa collaborates with government agencies and local partner NGOs on programmes in Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso. It completed 15 years of development activities in Eritrea in 2011. It began work in its newest programme country - Benin - in 2012, with a programme that is supporting small-scale farmers to access international markets for its cashew crops. In July 2014 the organisation undertook new programme work in Tanzania arising from a merger in Ireland with Gorta. Projects currently being carried out Self Help Africa include DISCOVER, a multi-annual consortium project with a number of partners including GOAL, Concern Universal and local partners that is seeking to support 100,000 people to adapt to climate change and produce food in Malawi; a US Aid backed project 'Community Connectors' in Uganda, an Irish Aid funded multi-year project in Northern Zambia; and a UK Aid backed collaborative Progamme Partnership Agreement (PPA) with FARM-Africa. The PPAs are strategic level agreements based around mutually agreed outcomes and individual performance frameworks against which the organisations report on an annual basis. Self Help Africa is also implementing the Mtukula Agricultural Enterprise Fund (MAEF),〔("Enabling smallholder farmers in Africa to develop enterprising solutions" )〕 a grant-making initiative that has been established to enable smallholder farmers in Southern Africa to develop enterprising solutions, and is involved in the creation of African Agriculture Alliance (AAA),〔(African Agriculture Alliance )〕 a social enterprise to provide a sustainable and scalable way of supporting agricultural enterprise development. A subsidiary of Self Help Africa, 'Partner Africa' 〔(Partner Africa )〕 was established in 2012 to support ethical and socially responsible business practice. Partner Africa is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and provides high quality and innovative ethical trade services and capacity building programmes to the private sector across Africa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Self Help Africa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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